Yahoo’s Zimbra is now available in beta and allows users to access their email accounts offline. Zimbra currently offering Post Office Protocol and Internet Message Access Protocol for accessing Email accounts. Users can access up to three E-Mail accounts from Different E-Mail providers.
Zimbra Features
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- 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
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Conversation Views, Tags, and Search
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- 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"
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Web mash-ups
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- 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
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Contacts
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- 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
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Calendar
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- 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
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Documents, Tasks, Briefcase
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- Edit Documents including add images, tables and spreadsheets; share them in email
- Track your to do’s including start and end dates, percent complete
- Save attachments in Briefcase rather than as message attachments
- Works with any account you set up
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Extra features with Zimbra Collaboration Suite
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- Email, contacts and calendar synchronize to the Zimbra Server
- Works with both Open Source and Network Edition (ZCS 4.5+ servers)
- 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
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Zimbra Features and Images are taken from Yahoo’s Zimbra Website
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July 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
oh yeh zimbra going hot these days yahoo really trying hard to win the race