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DESCRIPTION
Zimbra Collaboration Suite is open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration (email, group calendar, contacts, etc).
End-user benefits include:
- Browser based AJAX client with search, shared calendar and mail that is integrated with contacts and calendar.
- Support for Outlook, iCal, App.Mail, contacts and offline mode.
- Support of Apple, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
Administrator Benefits:
- Online move, back-up, and recovery of individual or a group of mailboxes.
- Compatibility with existing LDAP directories.
- Native hierarchical storage management and clustering.
- Web services integration with existing enterprise applications.
- Integrated anti-spam and anti-virus.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 6.0b2:
ZCS Administration and General Features
- Extension blocking is now done at both the Postfix header level and at the Amavis level which scans embedded archives for blocked extensions (Bug 30889)
- zimbraSmtpHostname is now fault tolerant. (Bug 36173)
- The admin can set the number of items to display per page on ZWC to 250, 500, 100 or more. COS/Account attributes zimbraMaxMailItemsPerPage, zimbraMaxContactsPerPage, zimbraMaxVoiceItemsPerPage control the numbers(Bug 7411)
- Configuring Calendar Resources from the admin console has been enhanced to improve the user experience, including the ability to set a scheduling policy (Bug 12414)
- As part of the Logger service over-haul for 6.0
- Logger service is no longer available. (Bug 24199)
- There is a new tab in Server Statistics that include advanced graphing options. Also the stock graphs for disk/mta/etc. are more dynamic. (Bug 34938)
- An additional log file /var/log/zimbra-stats.log is automatically added via sysloc.conf and the local logging facility. This is used to aggregate Zimbra stats for the purpose of the new zimbra-logger. Data includes all the existing zmstats data plus the previous zimbra-logger data. (Bug 36915)
Zimbra Web Client Features
Tasks. You can now select to view tasks by status (Not started, Completed, In progress, Waiting on someone else, and Deferred) Bug 16005
Tasks. You can sync tasks from an iCal remote service. When you create a new task, check Synchronize tasks from the remote service and add the URL. (Bug 17907)
Calendar. The attendee can select from a drop down menu to not notify the creator when they accept, decline, to tentatively accept a meeting. (Bug 38179)
Search. If you know where to search for an item, you can do a quick search by entering one of the search keywords followed by a colon (tag:) in the search field. The keywords are tag, in, under, is, has, type, attachment. (Bug 37737)
When printing messages, a Font size link displays on the page to be printed. You can increase or decrease the size of the text before you print. (Bug 17228)
In the Forward a copy to Mail Preference field, users can specify more than one address to use. They enter a comma to separate the email addresses (Bug 11299)
Added the ability to sort by message size (Bug 10445)
Standard Client. HTML signatures are now supported in the standard ZWC. (Bug 28314)
Standard Client. The GAL can now be searched from the Standard Client. (Bug 27615)
Standard Client. When creating a meeting, the resources are now displayed on the Add Attendees page. (Bug 37952)
REQUIREMENTS
Intel Mac, Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later, Java 1.5.
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| Zimbra Collaboration Suite User Reviews (8 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Mar 10 2009 |
MSWFUJOWDFFYC After a large deployment on OS X Server hosts, Zimbra has stopped supporting OS X on ppc. Why? But do your homework if have an investment in ppc hardware that is more than adequate for your needs before buying.
(Version 5.0.14) | |
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 | Feb 2 2008 |
KRIS BROWNE The ownership by Yahoo doesn't trouble me as much as what will happen if(when is more likely) microsoft buys Yahoo. As someone else said, Zimbra really offers a well designed Exchange competitor stack, and I can't see MS letting that stand.
(Version 5.0.2) | |
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| Jan 3 2008 |
MAXIMXYGO Absolutely no changes whatsoever, besides renaming a Zimblet from "yahoo maps" to "yahoo local." Yahoo plans to (and by all appearances does) operate Zimbra as a separate entity, most likely injecting ZCS components into their online webmail offerings. I know it freaks some people out that Yahoo owns it now (why I don't know... yahoo's turned out to be a pretty respectable company these days), but I (nor other zimbra employees) can see any benefit from Yahoo changing anything about it, nor from killing it outright. It's a truly unique Exchange competitor, and makes its owners decent money... they only benefit from serving their existing target audience better.
(Version 5.0) | |
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| Jan 2 2008 |
MAXIMXYGO Quite simply the best collaboration suite I've ever set up, administered, and used as an end user. The openness of Zimbra really makes it shine beyond the already *amazing* set of built-in functionality. It works wonderfully with iCal (subscribe/publish), WebDAV for "briefcase," plus a TON of other killer features, including an iPhone-optimized interface for mobile devices. It not only acts as a very cost-effective "replacement" for Outlook, it bests it in every way. I have users using the native AJAX interface, users attached via IMAP using Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail and MobilMail (iPhone), even a few using the chat functions via Jabber in iChat. It all just works, and works *wonderfully.* Top notch software. The Open Source version is great and FREE (that's what we use), and the Network (paid) edition is stellar, and very inexpensive.
(Version 5.0) | |
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| Jan 2 2008 |
JAMUS Have you been able to tell any additions/subtractions due to Yahoo? I know several companies that were about to switch over and then heard the news about Yahoo buying it. The switch over plans then stopped cold. A shame too, because it was (maybe still is?) a nice suite.
(Version 5.0) | |
| Sep 20 2007 |
JAMUS So I guess this is the first version post-Yahoo?
(Version 4.5.7) | |
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| Sep 21 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN from macintouch.com today: "Zimbra, just acquired by Yahoo for $350 million, released Zimbra Collaboration Suite 4.5.7, an update of its server-based, open-source, email/collaboration suite that provides email, calendars, RSS/Atom feeds, tags, and more. It includes support for iSync, Apple Mail, iCal, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Eudora, Outlook, and others. This release adds "219 bug fixes and enhancements," including many stability enhancements for Tomcat and LDAP, and more. Zimbra Open Source Edition is available free for Mac OS X and Linux. An enhanced Network Edition is priced starting at $25 per mailbox per year."
(Version 4.5.7) | |
| Mar 30 2007 |
REALISO Sorry, but this is a collaboration suite, not just an app. I'm in no way associated with Zimbra but I think you didn't really understand what Zimbra is. Zimbra is similar to Exchange with OWA. If you don't know what that means and/or have never installed Exchange + OWA, don't even *bother* thinking about considering the option of installing Zimbra. This is very specific server software and needs an administrator to install - a really good systems administrator with Unix experience. So if you are looking a drag-and-drop-installable groupware (there is no such thing), then this is definitely the wrong app for you. Zimbra is really nice, you can just go to the website and check it out, there is a demo-version installed where you can test it and see if it could fit your companys requirements and then tell your sysadmin to have a look at it and see if he can install it.
(Version 4.5.4) | |
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| Feb 26 2007 |
PEDROTAQUELIM Hi, Does anybody has a updated review on Zimbra? I would like very much to know your opinion and experience about this Collaboration suite. | |
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| Nov 22 2007 |
LAURENT@SGP There is a commercial use for this in Singapore. It support hundreds of users. It seems to work well for them. However, I do not know what hardware platform was it installed on. I do not have an account to use it but have seen it in use.
(Version 4.5.10) | |
| Feb 17 2006 |
GAOSHAN I'm not reviewing this as I has trouble getting it to work properly. I AM going to comment on the amount of "stuff" installed and changed on my computer. Zimbra needs to make a number of fundamental changes to your system. For example, it created it's own user and group without asking. I understand that it needs to do this to work but if you install this you need to be aware that uninstalling it will be much more complicated than your average OS X application. There are files and logs and configurations that are changed all over the place. If you have some skill with unix and the command line, you will be able to track them all down... eventually.
(Version 3.0) | |
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| Jul 22 2006 |
STROB You are not kidding! This thing installed several packages that required DeInstaller to be run about six times. Even then the directory structure was left in /opt which required command line removal. In the end couldn't get this running; kept complaining about DNS host name on setup. No app is worth this trouble.
(Version 3.1.1) | |
| Jul 16 2008 |
GDANKO Most folks I've spoken to have said it's pretty easy to set up. Plus, I've set up Exchange and it's certainly no picnic compared to Zimbra. Plus, the price can't be beat.
(Version 5.0.7) | |
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