Zimbra Collaboration Suite 7.0
Zimbra Collaboration Suite 7.0
Administrator's Guide
Open Source Edition


Product Overview > Core Functionality
Core Functionality
The Zimbra Collaboration Suite is an innovative messaging and collaboration application that offers the following state-of-the-art messaging and collaboration solutions:
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Email
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Group Calendars
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Address Books
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Task Management
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Web document management and authoring
The core functionality within ZCS is as follows:
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Mail delivery and storage
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Indexing of mail messages upon delivery
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Mailbox server logging
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IMAP and POP support
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Directory services
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Anti-spam protection
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Anti-virus protection
Administrators can easily manage domains, servers, and accounts from the browser based administration console.
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Manage classes of service
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Add accounts and domains
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Set account restrictions either for an individual account or by COS
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Create and edit distribution lists
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Import Microsoft Exchange user accounts
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Set up virtual hosts on a domain
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Manage servers
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View and manage system status
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Monitor usage
Zimbra offers two browser based web clients, Advanced Zimbra Web Client that offers a state-of-the-art Ajax web client; and Standard Zimbra Web Client as an HTML client. Some of the features that can be found in the web client include:
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Compose, read, reply, forward, and use other standard mail features
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View mail by conversation threads
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Tag mail to easily group messages for quick reference
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Perform advanced searches
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Save searches
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Use Calendar to schedule appointments
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Share calendars, email folders, address books, and Briefcase folders with others
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Set mailbox usage preferences, including defining mail filtering options
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Use ZCS Documents to create, organize and share web documents
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Use the Tasks feature to create to-do lists and manage tasks through completion.