Comments on: Zimbra Desktop Is Just Plain Awesome

By: Rendfield

Rendfield — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:19:00 +0000

With Zimbra you are not able to use multiple email accounts in one folder structure (one sent-box, one address book, one postbox etc.).
It acts as if you have a diffrent program for each email acount.
Each account has its own sent-box, address-book and so on.
Not usable for me in this way.
Outlook and thunderbird could do this easily.
If zimbra would be able to collect my emails from different accounts in one box, I would use it.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:45:42 +0000

Looks like it might almost be time to switch from Thunderbird. I should at least give it a try.

What I like is the sync features. I don’t like my calendar being tied to a local machine (as it is with Lightning unless I”m missing something…) so I tend to use Yahoo or Gmail (a bit of a mesh of the two to be honest). If this also consolidates the calendars to one, that’d be enormously useful to me.

It’s a “must try” if nothing else!

By: kjv1611

kjv1611 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:03:52 +0000

To Vic about integration options:

In Windows, create separate user accounts. Then within each account, have a separate instance of the mail application – whichever application it is. Each user account should be able to customize their use of any application – the changes are stored under Local Settings/AppData typically.

Then you customize which accounts show for that user. The reason why the applications don’t provide such a password “feature” is because it is not convenient at all. You’d end up doing about the same as accessing each account separately.

So, the best way to handle this is simply – different user accounts if on the same PC. If any application was built with the intention of being used by several users on the same user account, same PC, then that’d be a step in the wrong direction, security-wise. You’ll find this is the case at the OS level, whether you’re dealing with Windows, Mac, or Linux. It’s a fundamental of security, really.

So, go create some Windows User Accounts, customize for each account, and you’re done.

By: Vic

Vic — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:37:05 +0000

Looks great but I have the same question I ask all integrators… Can you protect your multiple accounts with a password for each? Lemme explain… I like having all my gmail, yahoo and hotmail accounts accessible under one roof, but if for some mundane reason I need someone to access one of the accounts, I don’t necessarily want that person to be able to access all of the accounts. A simple optional password protection would do the trick, but I have not yet found a single integrator with this option…

By: John Robb

John Robb — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:11:09 +0000

Thanks Rich for the feedback. Zimbra Desktop is GA against a Zimbra server and we are leaving it Beta against Yahoo!, Gmail, etc.

By: Aaron Fournier

Aaron Fournier — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:33:48 +0000

This is pretty cool! I’ll have to check this out. I like the ability of it minimizing to the taskbar as well, but I feel doubtful it will do the same thing in Linux. Looking through the FAQ of Zimbra, it makes mention how hitting the “x” button in the upper right corner will minimize it to the taskbar in Windows, but doing the same thing will close it in Mac and Linux. If I can’t minimize it to the taskbar, I don’t see any reason to use it over Mozilla Thunderbird or even Evolution (mainly because Evolution integrates with Ubuntu’s notification system).

By: Kyle Potts

Kyle Potts — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:23:58 +0000

Wow great find Rich! Even on Linux the install is in a .sh script. I had no problem installing it even though its not in the arch Linux repository.