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Downloads:
8,630
- Operating Systems:
Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Additional Requirements:
Windows XP/Vista, 256MB RAM
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
July 24, 2008
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Publisher's description of Yahoo Zimbra Desktop beta 3 (build 1249)
From Yahoo:Ever forget about an important message in your other e-mail accounts? Can't find a message in the account right in front of you? Yahoo Zimbra Desktop is the next-generation email application that makes e-mail easy again. Get e-mail, contacts, and calendar all in one application. Easily set up Zimbra, Yahoo. Mail Plus, AOL and Gmail email accounts with the Account Wizard. Any POP or IMAP email account can be added to Zimbra Desktop, there's no limit to the size of your email storage, and Zimbra Desktop works online and offline.
Editor's review of Yahoo Zimbra Desktop beta 3 (build 1249)
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Yahoo Zimbra Desktop offers Yahoo Mail users offline access to their Webmail accounts, as well as providing document and spreadsheet support. As with Yahoo's Webmail interface, it mirrors Microsoft Outlook's look and keyboard shortcuts.
Zimbra Desktop can handle multiple accounts, including access to the competition. Configuring for Gmail, or any other mail service, was dead simple. One similarity to Gmail are the small triangles that appear next to e-mail messages that are part of a back-and-forth exchange. Clicking on the triangle expands the e-mail header list so you can see all the messages of the exchange. There's also tagging, which Zimbra uses much like Gmail's labels. Unfortunately, Zimbra's tags and Gmail's labels didn't synchronize. And tags are specific to an e-mail account, so clicking on a tag will show only a subset of messages within one.
However, it's not perfect. It didn't seem connected to our Yahoo address book for contacts or calendar for events. And unless you instruct it otherwise, Zimbra Desktop will synchronize your in-box but not folders where you may have filed message. You can manually sync folders when you click on them, but the process worked erratically.
Zimbra Desktop's productivity suite elements are workable, but barely so. Unlike Google Docs, Microsoft Office files can't be opened, and there's no presentation software. The spreadsheet is extremely spartan, and runs awkwardly inside the word-processing application. Stability also became an issue when running a spreadsheet and minimized applications.
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User reviews of Yahoo Zimbra Desktop beta 3 (build 1249)
- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 21 votes
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Yahoo Zimbra Desktop beta 3 (build 1249)
Pros: I have to agree with the other reviewers here. I installed it and found out exactly all they claim. It has a lot of potential, it is pretty. But it is extremely slow to run, to install and in one word, to deal with it. Also as they claim, it forgets your settings every time. And I may add one more, it doesn't support Hotmail, or at least it was not obvious for me.
Cons: Great, great idea very poorly executed. Does bloated mean something to you?
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Yahoo Zimbra Desktop beta 3 (build 1249)
Pros: All in one Email. Imap on Yahoo
Cons: Slow
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Yahoo Zimbra Desktop beta 3 (build 1249)
Pros: Might have been convenient, but...
Cons: Probably the slowest email client yet.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Yahoo Zimbra Desktop beta 3 (build 1249)
Pros: It's very easy to set up mail accounts and too use it
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Yahoo Zimbra Desktop beta 3 (build 1249)
Pros: Features are great. Handy and i can read mails offline.
Cons: bit slow
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