Plesk Oxtender

Overview

The Plesk Oxtender, developed and supported by 4PSA, is the most convenient way to add a high performance, best in class email service to your Parallels Plesk Panel customers. It allows you to deliver true business class email features including groupware, collaboration and mobility using the award winning Open-Xchange, the social networks enabled alternative to Microsoft Exchange.

The 4PSA OXtender for Plesk is a fully automated solution designed to integrate Parallels Plesk with the Open-Xchange Hosting Edition.

Getting evaluation licenses

To evaluate the full functionalety of Open-Xchange it is necessary to get an evaluation license.

Therefore please fill out the following contact form and add "I want to receive a Hosting Edition and Plesk Oxtender evaluation license to the "comment field"":
http://www.open-xchange.com/en/contactus

Download and installation of Plesk Panel

If you have not already a Plesk Panel server running simply download a copy and install it:
http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/

Plesk Oxtender is compatible with Plesk Panel 8.3.0 and upper versions for Linux/UNIX.

You can find the complete documentation here, we recommend to start with "Administrator's Guide":
http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/resources/

Download and installation of Open-Xchange Server

Simply follow the guides to install Open-Xchange Hosting Edition on your favorite Linux distribution. Important: Stop before step "Creating contexts and users " - this is not necessary since all administration of contexts and users will be handled via Plesk.

http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Open-Xchange_Installation_Guide_for_Debian_4.0
http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Open-Xchange_Installation_Guide_for_Debian_5.0
http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Open-Xchange_Installation_Guide_for_SLES10
http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Open-Xchange_Installation_Guide_for_SLES11
http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Open-Xchange_Installation_Guide_for_RHEL5

After finishing installation as described please modify your Open-Xchange Server as describe here:
http://kb.4psa.com/index.php?pcat=kb&pag=index&article=321

Download and installation of Plesk Oxtender

Follow the "OXtender Command Line Installer Guide" linked here:
http://www.4psa.com/index.php?pcat=products&pag=docs#oxtender

After installation read the documentation:
http://www.4psa.com/docs/oxtender/oxtender_end_user.pdf