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Get email, contacts and calendar on your desktop – online and offline
Keep up to date with emails and appointments with Zimbra Desktop 7
There are not that many alternatives to Microsoft Outlook that include the calendar, contacts and task list as well as email. Zimbra Desktop 7 can work with several webmail services and manage these and other important jobs.
The account setup wizard can work with accounts from Zimbra, Gmail, Yahoo or a Microsoft Exchange IMAP server as well as standard POP and IMAP email services. What is important about some of these services is that Zimbra can import other information as well as emails. And it can work offline when you are not connected to the internet.
Beyond traditional email and calendars, Zimbra can also be used to access social networks such as Facebook, Digg and Twitter.
The interface is tabbed for all the different information with a list of accounts and a brief diary. This also shows any extensions, called Zimlets, that can be installed to add extra features.
We were pleased to see tabs for a Calendar and Tasks as well as emails. Zimbra-based accounts can also store files online in the Briefcase tab.
The Zimbra Desktop is also available for Mac and Linux as well as Windows. These can be downloaded from the Zimbra Desktop page.
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Zimbra Desktop
I downloaded Zimbra Desktop and installed it (p. 68, Computeractive Issue 332, 11 - 24 Nov 2010). On my computer it was next to useless. Extremely slow to do anything. I uninstalled it (and found it was listed as 199 MB) which was also a slow process, and then used FSL Super Finder to search for "Zimbra" remnants of which there were an enormous number. My computer runs Windows XP SP3 and has only 512 MB of RAM. I think it would be a good idea when you notify us of products like this if you could give us an idea of the computer requirements to run it satisfactorily. I might add that I have previously had much the same experience with the Windows version of Evolution. This runs splendidly in Ubuntu Linux, but on this (Windows) computer was a total disaster.
Posted by Ian Sheppard, 13 Nov 2010
Zimbra
It seemed to run fine on my test machine, although performance does depend on other software running on the computer. According to the Zimbra website, your computer seems to meet the requirements although they recommend 1GB rather than 512MB http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Desktop Tim
Posted by Tim Smith, 19 Nov 2010