Comments on: Zimbra Desktop Beta 3’s New Features

By: Kristine

Kristine — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:01:15 +0000

Love it but…
- contact sync with Yahoo and Gmail would be great
- changing the “new message” noise would be handy
- a preference for the folder view (always conversation or always message view) would be very helpful

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:38:03 +0000

Love the client. Only one thing bothers me about it. It would be nice to not have to scroll through the header to view attachments. It’d be nice to have the attachments show above the header or at the bottom of the screen.

Other than that, keep up the great work.

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:19:28 +0000

I am starting up with a new Yahoo account. I have downloaded Zimbra and I am confused. Will Zimbra replicate all my Yahoo data offline. I find Tasks and calendars different in Yahoo online and Zimbra
Notes is absent from Zimbra

Where should i start, Online or Zimbra.

By: Brad Nicholas

Brad Nicholas — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:01:47 +0000

guys this is a total home run…def up to zimbra standards!!

some obvious tuning points as you go to GA:

– font size support, at least for the message preview pane
– a way to exclude certain folders from sync (didn’t see any options for it)
– was getting RPC memory errors with very large mboxes

wonderful work!!!

By: Stan Kossen

Stan Kossen — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:57:50 +0000

I’ve been playing with as many features of Zimbra as possible since I installed it about three hours ago, and so far I am really pleased with the application. I was able to install two Yahoo accounts and a Gmail account to it with ease. They all function well, and I can hop from one account to the other in a one-click jiffy.

I also like the drag-images-into-attachments feature, much better than Yahoo!s old approach. I even dragged multiple images at the same time.

There are too many features for me to talk about other than to say once again that I am pleased do far with Zimbra.

No, I don’t work for Zimbra.

Stan Kossen

By: Mike Morse

Mike Morse — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:47:59 +0000

@BJ Remember this is a port of the server, so all of the services of course sync with ZCS - try out the hosted demo and you may just become a convert: http://www.zimbra.com/products/hosted_demo.php
We do have Yahoo integration planned as I mentioned above “(Note that some apps don’t sync to Yahoo! servers yet so the data is local.)” Yahoo IMAP access through Zimbra Desktop to all free accounts was the first step that we’ve added since Beta 1’s Plus IMAP access.

Several methods to do so will become available shortly (from both Zimbra & Yahoo! ends of the spectrum) since those are internal RFE’s I’ve created http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30249 for you to watch & vote on (though it obviously has strategic value so we do in-fact plan to implement it). Zimbra is Open Source and we’re very pleased to see more Yahoo! members join our community. To understand how you can shape the future of what Zimbra is see: http://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2007/02/open-source-product-management-how-do-features-get-into-zimbra.html

In the meantime you can at least import most of your Yahoo contacts:
http://address.mail.yahoo.com/?1&VPC=import_export (or similar URL) > choose Yahoo! CSV (or Microsoft Outlook)
Then open Zimbra Desktop > Preferences Tab > Address Book Tab > Import CSV.
As IM contacts aren’t imported easily without field re-arrange I’ve filed http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30258

Take further troubleshooting replies to http://www.zimbra.com/forums/zimbra-desktop/ and we’ll help you out.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:12:03 +0000

Hope you are heading fast towards 1.0. Can’t wait for it! Great release.

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:57:14 +0000

But no syncing of Yahoo Address Book contacts? What good is an email client if contact information isn’t built-in?

By: Mike Morse

Mike Morse — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:39:05 +0000

@MeneM If I remember right the attribute in question is like zimbraFeatureWebSearch or zimbraFeatureWebSearchEnabled.
Actually the theme setting is intentionally not synced-
For one, users may not want to have the same skin on web and desktop (just for preference reasons or because they want to visually differentiate which client they’re using). But the other, more technical issue is that a user may have skins installed on Desktop that aren’t available on their web access and vice versa…which would cause the one that didn’t have the selected skin to keep defaulting to ’sand’ (actually the new ZCS default is now ‘beach’ aka ’sand’ with a splash of blue) which may not be what the user wants at all.
I use Zimbra Desktop to develop skins rather than throwing up an entire ZCS server - if you don’t know where to start, just tweak an existing one in your zdesktop/jetty/webapps/zimbra/skins folder. See this for possibilities: http://files.zimbra.com/docs/skins/index.html

@MercHead Are you still having difficulty/did you type the full @domain part? Take further troubleshooting issues to http://www.zimbra.com/forums/zimbra-desktop/ and we’ll help you out.

@Jono Yup the special auth token/mechanism is limited for multitude of reasons I won’t go into here; but if I had to guess based on common practices, general IMAP access will probably be available to Plus accounts first when rolled out someday.

@Counsel For NE we do have Zimbra MobileSync support for the iPhone 2.0 firmware http://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2008/07/zimbra-mobile-for-iphone.html which allows for integration with the built-in mail, contact, calendaring (and appointment reminders) but yes we could consider an iPhone App as well using the SDK sometime, or maybe the community will make one!

@Frank This may be a little further out, but you can keep an eye on (and vote for!) this RFE: http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19182

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:31:34 +0000

Any ETA on supporting shared calendars/addressbooks in it?