ZimSOAP allows to access the SOAP Zimbra API through a programmatic, data-type-aware interface high-level. It also handle authentification, sessions, pre-authentication and delegated authentication.

Not all methods are covered, but you're welcome to wrap the ones you need and pull-request !

If you are looking at a lower-level lib, you better look to python-zimbra

Allows accessing zimbraAdmin and zimbraAccount SOAP APIs

• handle authentification
• handle pre-authentification admin->admin and admin->Account
• presents the request results as nice Python objects
• all requests are tested with Zimbra 8.6.0

Simple:

pip install zimsoap

Or if you fetch it from git:

./setup.py install

API is accessible through the ZimbraAdminClient() method. Example :

zc = ZimbraAdminClient('myserver.example.tld')
zc.login('username@domain.tld', 'mypassword')

print("Domains on that zimbra instance :")
for domain in zc.get_all_domains():
    # Each domain is a zobject.Domain instance
    print('  - %s' % domain.name)

You can also access raw SOAP methods:

zc = ZimbraAdminClient()
zc.login('username@domain.tld', 'mypassword')
xml_response = self.zc.GetAllDomainsRequest()

If you want up-to-date code example, look at unit tests...

Most of tests are integration tests, they require a live zimbra server to be running.

The tests will assume some base data (provisioning scsripts included), create/update some, and cleanup after themselves. They may leave garbage data in case they crash.

DO NOT USE A PRODUCTION SERVER TO RUN TESTS.

Use a dedicated test server, unable to send emails over network and consider that all Zimbra accounts/domains/settings are disposable for automated tests purposes.

You will need a server:

• running zimbra 8.x,
• with ports 7071 and 443 reachable
• with a system user having password-less sudo rights

In the following commands, we consider that mytestserver is your server hostname and user is a unix user with admin sudo rights.

First, delete all domains/accounts/resources/lists/... from your test server.

If you're cleaning up a server previously used for testing ZimSOAP, you can run:

ssh user@mytestserver -- sudo su - zimbra -c zmprov < tests/cleanup-test-data.zmprov

Then provision the test data :

ssh user@mytestserver -- sudo su - zimbra -c zmprov < tests/provision-test-data.zmprov

It will provision an admin account admin@zimbratest.example.com with the password password, as well as other required elements.

Create a test_config.ini in tests/ directory. Example content:

[zimbra_server]
host = mytestserver
server_name = zmhostname
admin_port = 7071
admin_login = admin@zimbratest.example.com
admin_password = password
https_port = 443

note: server_name is the internal server name from your zimbra server list (generally matches the hostname)

If you damaged the data with failed tests, you will need to run the preparation steps above again.

After you are all set, you can run tests the standard python way

$ python -m unittest discover

… Or using py.test.

$ py.test

To contribute your fixes or improvements, please fork this repository and create pull requests:

• for each fix or new API method / methodset support
• with full unittest / integration test coverage for your PR

Also please make sure your code passes the flake8 linter:

$ pip install -r test-requirements.txt
$ make lint