Jeshurun's Blog

Not too long ago I had to interface with Zimbra‘s admin API for one of my projects, and quickly realized that it is er.. a little weird. You see, Zimbra has a SOAP (and also a limited REST) API, but does not does not publish a WSDL for them. Neither is an xsd or DTD available to validate your requests against or to generate client stubs. To make things worse, the only documentation available is a lengthy but simple text file which lists the available operation names as tags and the attributes / elements that go with each of them. In case you are interested in this file, you can find it in the docs folder of your Zimbra installation.
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If you are reading this post, chances are you administer a Zimbra mail server, and you need to recover an email that was blocked by amavisd for one of your users. This might have happened for a variety of reasons, including your spam score being too high, you have blocks based on file types, or if the email contained an attachment that was encrypted. What you would have quickly found out though, is that there is no quick and easy way of recovering a blocked email and forwarding it on to the intended recipient (at least in the community edition, I’m not sure of the network edition).

There presently seem to be at least three ways of doing this, and following is the low down on the easiest way I’ve found so far. If you just need to view the email, please skip to end of this post.

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