The current pandemic has accelerated the way we work together with teams worldwide and across all industries. And for this reason, modern workplace messaging has become a common interface for people and software to collaborate.
For many years, companies of all shapes and sizes have been looking for collaboration platforms. They are aiming to drive innovation while maintaining control and security over their most sensitive data. And here’s where messaging and collaboration platforms give development teams precisely what they need. That’s a workspace that allows them to be more productive while meeting IT and security teams’ control requirements.
Solutions like Mattermost and Plesk Premium Email, powered by Kolab, are excellent examples of this. Read more to find out why.
Introducing the Mattermost Extension
Mattermost is an open source messaging and developer collaboration platform that meets businesses’ trust and security requirements. From piloting spacecraft and ensuring national security to building electric cars and advancing vital infrastructure – enterprises use Mattermost daily to change the world.
Benefits of Working with Mattermost
A modern enterprise collaboration platform can increase organizational agility by bringing conversations, software, and data together. Mattermost not only makes DevOps collaboration more powerful through integrations with existing tools and systems. It also automates workflow allowing continuous integration and deployment. Let’s run through all its benefits:
- Privacy, security, and compliance. Mattermost lets you keep full control of your messages, data, and intellectual property. It also runs your vital communications behind your firewall, self-hosted on the cloud of your choice and under your existing security and IT policies. And you can use its auditing tools to meet compliance requirements.
- Productivity and agility. Mattermost empowers development teams to build workflow, ship software faster, and collaborate confidently.
- Extensibility. Through integrations with other services and internal systems, it allows increasing ROI on existing software investments.
- Open Source. As an open source platform, Mattermost ensures that teams are completely free to develop additional features without any restrictions.
Mattermost for Plesk Premium Email – The Perfect Match
Many of the world’s leading high-security enterprises work better with Mattermost by connecting people, tools, and automation across tens of thousands of users. And that’s why Mattermost integrates with Plesk Premium Email, powered by Kolab, acting as a secure chat module for the web client. With this union, teams are not only more connected and productive – they thrive!
Many of the world’s leading high-security enterprises work better with Mattermost by connecting people, tools, and automation across tens of thousands of users. And that’s why Mattermost integrates with Plesk Premium Email, powered by Kolab, acting as a secure chat module for the web client. With this union, teams are not only more connected and productive – they thrive!
Mattermost is supported on Plesk 17.8 or later, installed on the following Linux distributions: CentOS 7, Debian 8 and 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.
It’s also worth noting that, additionally, Mattermost has some requirements when working with Plesk. The domain must be secured with a valid SSL certificate, and NGINX must be enabled in proxy mode. Also, on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7, it’s required to install Postgres 9.4 on the system that is incompatible with the PostgreSQL component.
Unlock Your Self-Hosted Email’s Full Potential
The Mattermost extension for Plesk Premium Email serves as a secure messaging platform, allowing teams to have more excellent connectivity. And enabling security for your business and teams even when remote.
Plesk’s self-hosted online office brings people, discussions, bots, tools, and files together. This shared workspace lets groups collaborate in real-time throughout the project lifecycle. Also, Mattermost’s self-hosted approach provides modern communication benefits without sacrificing privacy, giving more control to teams. Read more best practices for running a self-hosted email server here.
On top of this, with the Plesk Email Security extension, you can also synchronize email, calendars, contacts, files, and notes on any desktop or mobile device. You can set up auto-responders or allow real-time notifications for emails. Cloud storage, including WebDAV, lets you securely access files from anywhere. And it’s easy to integrate anti-spam filters so that your mailbox stays safe from viruses and spam. Not bad – huh?
Licensing
Mattermost is included in Plesk Premium eMail in the fully featured free open source edition that you can host for yourself or your customers. If you are interested in upgrading to the Mattermost Enterprise edition, you can try it for free, or easily purchase a license key from Mattermost directly.
To compare Mattermost’s open source edition versus their enterprise edition, please refer to this page: https://mattermost.com/pricing-feature-comparison/
So, are you ready to give Plesk Premium Email and Mattermost a try? Get a detailed look into all their features here and here. Go ahead – your team is waiting!
4 Comments
Hello… when will be available the support with Plesk Premium Email (and Mattermost) for CloudLinux?
Hi Michele! Thanks for asking. We’re currently looking into this, but unfortunately, we still can’t confirm if it’ll be available soon.
I installed the Mattermost extension on Plesk and it’s currently version 7.1.0 as of today. It loaded the Mattermost Panel, but all my domains listed below had messages that “necessary packages were not installed” and there was a button to install them. After that ran and there was a notification that the packages were installed, I refreshed the screen and the domains still had “necessary packages were not installed” messages even though the installer said it did so. My assumption was that the Mattermost Extension wasn’t the latest version of Mattermost. Mattermost is at 7.8.0 I believe. So this Plesk extension would appear to me to not be the most current.
That’s when I decided to investigate the Docker method. When I use the Docker catalog search in the Plesk window, I get a lot of Mattermost image options and I have a limited idea what I should be using. (see screen images below) The problem is, when I go to the Mattermost Docker installation page (Deploy Your Self-Hosted Mattermost Server | Mattermost 3), it has command line instructions. Well, I’m not using command lines, I’m using Docker which is going to install with images. Searching for “installing Mattermost with Docker containers” is getting me a lot of pages with command line instructions only.
Could someone point me to a reference that would tell me what Mattermost images I need to run to install a self-hosted Mattermost setup for my home business? Do I need to run one to create a database? Do I need to run only the Mattermost Team Edition?
Hi David, we can confirm that the Mattermost version is the correct one. We suggest you submit a request with our dedicated support, as they can have a closer look at your specific setup. Hope this helps.