Distribution Group

[ntmg]

Hi there,

We are trying to evaluate Zimbra and see if all the features that it covers are good for us. I tried searching but coudn't find an answer for the following:

can we define a distribution group having an externally visible email address, zero or more members, and all incoming email routed into a permission-protected public folder ?

Many thanks

[Bevan Bennett]

can we define a distribution group having an externally visible email address

Yes.

zero or more members

Yes.

and all incoming email routed into a permission-protected public folder?

The documentation states that Zimbra currently supports shared calendars, contacts and documents, but not shared email folders. However, there appears to be active work being done to implement this in the beta 5.0.0 code. In 4.5.6 you can use zmmailbox to grant access to other people's folders (A folder of a system account could be used as a public folder) but the GUI doesn't appear to support subscribing to them and the IMAP server doesn't expose a 'Shared' namespace.

So the answer to this last question is "Not yet, but soon."