Zimbra Desktop is a free and open-source email client for your netbook that comes with a lot of added goodies. It’s cross-platform, available on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Zimbra Desktop combines the best aspects of existing email clients (also known as POP or IMAP email clients) with modern webmail applications to make a totally new and improved experience. It’s also smart enough to work with web-based mail services like Gmail, Yahoo, and others.
Zimbra Desktop can work with many types of servers to synchronize email, contacts and calendar data between user’s mailboxes on servers and local data stored on your computer disk. While synchronization requires network connectivity, Zimbra Desktop can be used to access emails offline, when the user’s computer is not connected to the network.
Overview of Zimbra Desktop Features
- Compose edit, delete, reply or make drafts
- Track mail exchanges using the Conversation feature or optionally switch to a traditional message view
- Include attachments with your message
- Forward mail messages to one or more recipients
- Search email messages and attachments by particular characteristics or specified text
- Create your own folders to organize mail
- Create tags with which to organize your mail
- Create filters to route incoming mail to designated folders
- Set up different account identities and addresses to manage different roles in your job or personal life
- Work even when you are not online – messages you send are saved in the Outbox and are sent when you connect to the Internet again.
- Save your messages to a local folder to make more room in your account storage allotment
Address Books (Contacts)
- Store all your contacts in one place for each of your accounts
- Create groups and tags to organize them
- Add photos to contacts
- Auto complete email addresses when composing email
- Import new contacts from other applications as .csv files or export contacts as .csv files for backup
Calendar
- Create and manage multiple color-coded calendars
- Create appointments, meetings, and events
- Import public web calendars (iCal format)
- Invite others to meetings and view free/busy times
Tasks, Documents, Briefcase
- Create and edit documents including add images, tables and spreadsheets; share them in email
- Track your tasks including start and end dates, percent complete
- Save attachments in a Briefcase folder rather than as message attachments.
Manager Your Accounts
- Archive folders to your computer, removing them from the server
- Backup your account or specific folders in your account to your computer. These can later be imported to the account to recover lost information.
You can download Zimbra Desktop for free. While there are similar products available like Outlook (that comes with a hefty price tag) and Thunderbird (which is free and open-source), Zimbra Desktop offers users many advantages which are not found in them.
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Zimbra Desktop on Windows does NOT work with Gmail. Tried it on 2 separate PC’s. Have uninstalled – this proggy is not ready for release yet!
@JellyW: I have been using Zimbra Desktop for many months now, and have configured Gmail, Yahoo, and my own SMTP accounts with it. Works like a charm. You are definitely doing something wrong.
How did you configure it? Can you go to specifics? Please do, I need to know. Thanks
Your article mentions that you can save your emails in a local folder to make more room for storage allotment. I cannot figure out how to do this. I tried the “export” function but that puts emails in some crazy “.tgz” file folder. I have tried to “unzip” (though I know not a zip file” using 7-zip but it keeps saying error, file broken. Does anyone know how to do this? I just need to save my inbox and sent mail to a CD or hard drive. For my records.
Thanks.