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Zimbra Desktop brings web mail, calendars, search to the desktop
The interesting thing is that Zimbra Desktop doesn't just provide access to your Yahoo! email account. You can also link it to your Gmail, AOL, Windows Live, or other web mail accounts. It supports POP and IMAP as well. If you're using a tag-based email service like Gmail, Zimbra Desktop will import your labels and treat them like folders. But you can also use the email client to tag, sort, or search for messages on your desktop.
Zimbra is an open source application and it's available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Not only does it have an integrated calendar and contact solution, but it can also import your calendars and contact lists from Yahoo! and Gmail. Windows Live address books can also be imported, but not the calendar.
Personally, I haven't felt much need to use a desktop email client for the past few years. Web mail is accessible from any computer with a web browser, as well as mobile devices. And you don't need to configure any software to get it working. But if you're a fan of desktop email clients, you might want to give Zimbra Desktop a look. It's free, after all.
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Subscribe to commentsSteveApr 29th 2009 2:54PM
No proxy support is a sure fire way to make your desktop email app useless. I'm always interested in Zimbra and even download it every once in a while to check out updates, but then I realize I can't use it at work because I can't configure it to use a proxy.
A client I can only use at home isn't going to be more useful to me then a web based alternative.
VishalApr 29th 2009 3:06PM
Would this also connect to Exchange systems?
hwarfnugenApr 29th 2009 3:23PM
What I want to know is what the servers are for the IMAP connection to Yahoo! Mail.
Sonny BurnettApr 30th 2009 7:04AM
Zimbra is damn slow to load!
Fred ThompsonApr 29th 2009 10:45PM
Using only web-based email hosted by an outside source means you have no critical data, no legal responsibility for the contents of the messages, no privacy, no retention reliability and no ability to access messages when you are offline. That's very unwise.
Danny BoyApr 29th 2009 7:09PM
An important feature of any PIM is the ability to sync with mobile devices (pda/cellphone/iphone). Does Zimbra have this feature?
RMay 1st 2009 6:07PM
I've been using Yahoo Zimbra desktop for a while now. Overall, I think it's pretty slow and bloated. And it adds a background service to your computer. But the only reason I use it is to check mail on a few Yahoo email accounts I still have.
Plus, there's an export option that allows you to download your email messages in EML format. Pretty handy if you want to grab some important emails before closing your Yahoo account.
AlexMay 8th 2009 1:10PM
This thing is slow... Preternaturally so, even.