10/29/2022 0 Comments Zimbra desktop reviews![]() Both Live Mail and Thunderbird allowed you to manage multiple e-mail accounts, supported IMAP, and enabled saved search folders and some advanced features. As a stand-alone e-mail client, I found Microsoft’s Windows Live Mail client (the successor to Outlook Express) to be perfectly adequate. You needed to add plug-ins, extensions, to get a calendar and other functionality that is common in other e-mail programs. In particular, it was just an e-mail client. ![]() However, Thunderbird wasn’t always perfect. I have looked at the client before but found, and still find, the interface to be a bit clunky. They also have a free, open-source Zimbra e-mail and collaboration server, as well as a paid version. I took another look at the Zimbra desktop client, the IMAP enabled software that was purchased first by Yahoo! but which is now a VMWare product. if I am able to use the client, it means I can get a single view to multiple e-mail accounts, which is a far more efficient method of managing e-mail than cycling out to 3 different sites, logging in, and checking to see if something has appeared.I use a desktop client with IMAP support when I want to backup my own e-mail, or if I’m shifting folders of e-mail from one account to another.There are times, though, that it’s nice to have a desktop client. I am not always on my laptop, so it means that a desktop client isn’t always available and I get used to the Web as not only fallback but primary access point. I use e-mail accounts from two major companies – Google and Microsoft – as well as ISP-based e-mail. This news made me cast around again for what I might use if I needed a desktop e-mail client again. But, according to Techcrunch, the Mozilla Foundation is pulling its resources from the project. Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client has been my go-to free e-mail client when I decided I wanted an alternative to using solely Web-based mail interfaces. ZIMBRA DESKTOP REVIEWS UPDATEUPDATE : If you’re on Windows, you might also want to look at Inky. ![]()
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