When the Sharing feature is enabled, users can share any of their folders, including their mail folders, calendars, address books, task lists, Document notebooks and Briefcase folders.
Users specify the type of access permissions to give the grantee. They can share with internal users who can be given complete manager access to the folder, external guests that must use a password to view the folder content, and the public access so that anyone who has the URL can view the content of the folder.
When internal users share a mail folder, a copy of the shared folder is put in the grantee’s folder list on the Overview pane. Users can manage their shared folders from their ZWC Preferences Sharing folder. In this folder users see a list of folders that have been shared with them and folders that they have shared with others.
Distribution lists can be used to manage shared items. Administrators manage the shares from the DL’s Shares tab. All members of the list have the same share privileges that the grantee defined for the shared folder. When a member is removed from the distribution list, the share privileges associated with the DL are revoked.
Users must notify the administrator that they have shared a folder with the distribution list. When the administrator is notified, the administrator publishes the shared item in the Shares tab to make the shared item available to members of the DL. When a new shared folder is published, existing members of the DL are automatically notified of the new shared item.
New members added to the distribution list can be automatically notified about items that are shared with them. They can accept the shared item from their ZWC Preferences>Sharing tab.
Preferences is enabled by default. Users can modify the default preferences that are configured for their account. You can disable Options and users will not have the Preferences tab in their mailbox. They will not be able to change the default configuration for the features that are set up for their accounts.
Account quota is the amount of space in megabytes that an account can use. The quota includes email messages, Calendar meeting information, task lists, Documents pages and files in Briefcase. When the quota is reached, all email messages are rejected and users cannot add files to their account. If you set the quota to 0, accounts do not have a quota. See
Account Quota and the MTA
Users can be notified that their mailboxes are nearing their quota. The percentage threshold for quota notification can be configured. When this threshold is reached, a quota warning message is sent to the user. The quota percentage can be set and the warning message text can be modified in the Advanced tab settings for COS and Accounts.
The Address Book size limit field sets the maximum number of contacts a user can have across all of their address books. When the number is reached, users cannot add new contacts.
You can specify a policy that sets the maximum number of failed login attempts before the account is locked out for the specified lockout time. This type of policy is used to prevent password attacks.
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When this box is checked, the “failed login lockout” feature is enabled and you can configure the following settings.
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Number of consecutive failed logins allowed
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The number of failed login attempts before the account is locked out. The default is 10 attempts. If this is set to 0, an unlimited number of failed log in attempts is allowed. This means the account is never locked out.
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The amount of time in seconds, minutes, hours, or days the account is locked out. If this is set to 0, the account is locked out until the correct password is entered, or the administrator manually changes the account status and creates a new password. The default is 1 hour.
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Time window in which the failed logins must occur within to lock the account
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The duration of time in seconds, minutes, hours, or days after which the number of consecutive failed login attempts is cleared from the log. The default is 0, the user can continue attempts to authenticate, no matter how many consecutive failed login attempts have occurred.
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Admin console autho token lifetime
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Auth token lifetime sets a browser cookie that contains the auth token. Administrators can open the administration console without having to log on again until the auth token expires. The default is 12 hours.
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Auth token lifetime sets a browser cookie that contains the auth token. User can open ZWC without having to log on again until the auth token expires. The default is 2 days.When it expires, the log in page is displayed and the user must log in to continue.
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Session idle lifetime sets how long a user session remains active, if no activity occurs. Activity includes any clickable mouse action, such as viewing contents of a folder or clicking a button. The default is 2 days.
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The email retention policy for email, trashed and spam messages is set by COS. When the message purge function runs is set by the message purge command.
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Number of days a message can remain in any folder before it is automatically purged. The default is 0; email messages are not deleted. The minimum configuration for email message lifetime is 30 days.
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Number of days a message remains in the Trash folder before it is automatically purged. The default is 30 days.
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Number of days a message can remain in the Junk folder before it is automatically purged. The default is 30 days.
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The server manages the message purge schedule. You configure the duration of time that the server should “rest” between purging mailboxes from the administration console, Global settings or Server settings, General tabs. By default, message purge is scheduled to run every 1 minute.
For example, when the purge interval is set to 1 minute, after mailbox1 is purged of messages that meet the message lifetime setting, the server waits 1 minute before beginning to purge mailbox2.
The appearance of the Zimbra Web Client user interface can be changed. A number of Zimbra themes are included with ZCS, and you can create others. You can select a theme to be the default and the themes that users can select from to customize their user experience.
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Limit users to one theme. On the Features tab, remove the check mark from Change UI Themes. The ZWC theme is the theme listed in Current UI theme field on the Themes tab.
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From the administration console you can deploy new Zimlets. Zimlets that are deployed are listed on the Zimlets tab. You can set access privileges to Zimlets by Domain, by COS or by account. Users can enable and disable the Zimlets they would like to use in their account from their Preferences>Zimlets folder.
ZCS includes pre configured Zimlets that enhance the user experience while working in the Zimbra Web Client. These Zimlets are already deployed and made available from the COS.
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com_zimbra_date. When users click on a date either in the email or on the mini-calendar, their calendar schedule for that date displays.
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com_zimbra_email. Users can see complete contact information if it is available in their address books.
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com_zimbra_url. This makes a link to the URL mentioned in the message.
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com_zimbra_phone. Users can click on a phone number that displays in any of the application pages to quickly call that number if they have the installed a VOIP software application such as Skype or Cisco VOIP. When they click on the phone number, the VOIP application is launched.
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Display a warning when users try to navigate away from Zimbra. It is easy for users to click the Back and Forward arrows in the browser or close their browser without logging out of their account. If this preference is not checked, users are asked if confirm that they want to navigate away from there account. If this preference is checked, the question is not asked.
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Show selection checkbox for selecting email and contact items in a list view for batch operation. If this is enabled, when users view email messages or contacts in the Content pane, a check box displays for each item. Users can select items from the Content pane and then perform an action such as mark as read/unread, move to a specific folder, drag and drop to a folder, delete, and tag for all those selected items. A checkbox in the toolbar lets users select all items in the Content pane at once.
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The Preferences Import/Export tab lets users export all of their account data, including mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, Documents notebooks and Briefcase folders. They can export specific items in their account and save the data to their computer or other location. The account data is saved as a tar-gzipped (tgz) archive file so that it can be easily imported to restore their account. Individual contacts are saved as .csv files, and individual calendar files are saved as .ics files. The data are not removed from their accounts. The exported account data file can be viewed with an archive program such as WinRAR archiver. Any of these files can be imported into their account from the same tab.
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