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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: April 28, 2009
- Total Downloads: 12,201
- Downloads last week: 56
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 26 votes
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Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on May 11, 2009
Yahoo's Zimbra Desktop is a strange beast. Chiefly intended for pre-existing users of Zimbra's business services, or those who access Zimbra's hosted server through the open-source community, the offline, multiplatform, open source Zimbra Desktop also has some intriguing uses for the rest of us. However, many features are acutely in beta. This makes its position as a standalone app precarious, as it does this review--pre-existing Zimbra fellows get a much richer feature set added to what is their chief e-mail in-box. For them, the emphasis on collaborating wiki documents, uploading files, and sharing entire subsets of the in-box--like address books and message folders--gives the application its value. Those outside the server's glow will find a half-enabled app still nibbled by bugs.
Most will want to try Zimbra Desktop for its capability to manage multiple e-mail accounts from its single in-box. It will sync contacts and calendars from Yahoo Mail and Gmail, though a syncing dilemma with Gmail currently restricts the buddy list to those you've added by hand. Likewise, Gmail's labels won't synchronize with Zimbra tags in this build. Hotmail is another Web mail service supported with caveats. It only works for those with premium Plus accounts, or those who have been grandfathered in from the Outlook Express days. Other IMAP and POP services are eligible for Zimbra's in-box panoply.
The e-mail accounts that do make it into Zimbra without a hitch are treated with an overarching search bar, the ability to tag messages, and a feature that clusters conversations with the same subject line. Unlike Gmail, Zimbra Desktop won't thread conversations into one e-mail entry, but it will list previous conversations with the same subject line beneath the latest message.
Also open to everyone are Zimbra Desktop's extremely simple wiki documents, which you can create, but can't easily share with others if you don't engage Zimbra's server. In previous tests, stability became an issue when running a spreadsheet and minimized applications. While the portrait isn't exactly rosy, the adventurous can still benefit from the multi in-box management tools, as Zimbra broadens its appeal and its promise to non-Zimbra Server users.
Publisher's description
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? 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.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 26 votes
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Version: Zimbra Desktop 1.0
Pros: Strongly recommended App,
1. very Fast, effecive and smart searching
2.Easy configurable,
3.lighweightCons: No cons yet
Summary: I appreciate this revolutionary email client. Its better than Thunderbird,outlook express, M.S outlook 2007 and windows mail
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Version: Zimbra Desktop 1.0
"Working well under Ubuntu 9.1"
Pros: Integrates webmail accounts easily and syncs google calendar (my replacement for outlook cal).
Cons: Needs better notification and popups for new mail and calendar events. Have not figured out how to get events to notify the system messaging. Still needs some work.
Summary: I need a calendar and email client that can monitor one main calendar that i share and manage a few webmail accounts for Linux. Two way sync with the calendar work well. Zimbra does OK and have been more stable than expected. It aint real pretty b... read more >>
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Version: Zimbra Desktop 1.0
"Zimbra doesn't work, won't uninstall"
Pros: Absolutely NONE
Cons: Didn't install right. Never did anything but bring up a window that had 3 red dots that flashed in sequence. Can't get rid of it, can't make it do anything. Slows PC to a crawl; takes 15 - 20 min. to load.
Summary: If uninstalled or deleted, comes back next time you reboot - you can see it in task manager processes. Slows PC to a crawl. DON'T INSTALL THIS TRASH! You will live to regret it. I should've known better than to trust anything from Yahoo; tried their... read more >>
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Version: Zimbra Desktop 1.0
"Far from ready for widespread use!"
Pros: Speed of downloading.
Cons: Not a real competitor for Thunderbird+Lightning and Outlook, e.g. no spelling checker available (even in one language, while I need at least two).
Summary:
This product is not mature yet, lacks lots of functionalities and, consequently has a long way to go, before it even starts competing with Thunderbird+Lightning or Outlook. That ... read more >>
Updated on Nov 15, 2009 -
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Zimbra Desktop 1.0
"Works well as a backup to Yahoo"
Pros: After Yahoo mail flaked out a few days ago for hours I decided to make a backup of my Yahoo emails on my computer. Does a good job of syncing once you get the hang of it and read the help file.
Cons: Font too small on Desktop. Don't know how to resize it. Could use a way to select multiple messages without clicking on each one.
Summary: Nice, efficient, backup for Yahoo webmail. Now I don't have to fret about my receipts and registration numbers disappearing or becoming inaccessible.
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