More about Zimbra Desktop

Key features

  • Email, contacts, and calendar all in one application
  • Available for Windows, Apple, or Linux desktop computers
  • Easily set up Zimbra, Yahoo! Mail Plus, AOL and Gmail email accounts with the Account Wizard
  • Any POP or IMAP email account can be added to Zimbra Desktop
  • No limit to the size of your email storage
  • It works online and offline

Feature details

Email

  • Easily compose, edit, delete, reply, or make drafts
  • ‘Drag and drop’ messages into new folders or the Trash
  • Supports plain text and html message formatting
  • Add email signatures for each account
  • Automatically reply with the correct ‘from’ address
  • Work even when you are not online- messages you send are saved in the “Outbox” and are sent when you connect again

Conversation Views, Tags, and Search

  • Collapse email threads into a single Conversation View to simplify your inbox
  • Tag messages as important from people you care about
  • Quickly search your mailbox for pictures, documents or text- even with attachments
  • Use the visual Search Builder to easily search by folder, date, person, subject or attachment
  • Save searches as Virtual Folders- for example “All email with attachments from Joe”

Web mash-ups

  • View addresses as Yahoo! Maps
  • Automatically detect your location and find points of interest with Yahoo! Local
  • Preview web pages at thumbnails instead of opening a browser
  • See your calendar schedule from within an email message if you hover over a date
  • Web Search powered by Yahoo! is built directly into Zimbra Desktop

Contacts

  • Store all your contacts in one place for all your accounts
  • Create groups and tags to organize them
  • Add photos to contacts
  • Auto complete email addresses when composing email
  • Easily import new contacts from other applications as .csv files or export contacts as .csv files for backup

Calendar

  • Manage multiple color-coded calendars
  • View calendars in Day, Week, Work Week, Month or List view
  • ‘Drag and drop’ events to new days or to change times
  • Import public web calendars (iCal format), such as sports schedules
  • Invite others to meetings and view free/busy times

Extra features with Zimbra Collaboration Suite

  • Email, contacts and calendar synchronize to the Zimbra Server
  • Works with both Open Source and Network Edition (ZCS 4.5+ servers)
  • Support for contacts from the Global Address List (GAL)
  • Existing user preferences (folders, signatures, settings, etc) are imported
  • Fast launch with automatic, transparent sync
  • Access to mobile devices, the Zimbra online Web Client and much more

Zimbra Desktop availability

Zimbra Desktop is free for anyone use and is currently a ‘Beta’ version. We do not directly support this product; you can find help and tips in the Zimbra Forums.

We also strongly encourage you to file any bugs or enhancement request in Bugzilla. As with any Beta product, please use Zimbra Desktop at your own discretion. We do not recommend Zimbra customers run Zimbra Desktop Beta in production.