Now a days every user is maintaining multiple Email Accounts with different mail services. Accessing each Mail Service like Gmail, Zimbra Mail, Yahoo! Mail, MSN, AOL, etc., every day is time-consuming.
What if you can manage all the Email Accounts right from your Desktop or in offline mode or also when you are in “airplane” mode?
All this can be done using a single piece of software / Utility called Zimbra Desktop.
Zimbra Desktop combines the best aspects of existing email clients (also known as POP or IMAP email clients) with modern webmail applications to make a totally new and improved experience. Nowhere else will you find an application with full email, contact, calendar, document management and offline access features for free.
Why Zimbara Desktop over Outlook or Thunderbird
- Zimbra Desktop Supports Email Notification where as Outlook Express and Thunder Bird supports limited mails Notification
- Zimbra Desktop searches Multi-GB Mail Boxes fast compared to Outlook Express and Thunder Bird.
- Supports Windows, MAC OS and Linux, Where as Outlook Express Works only in Windows.
- Zimbra Desktop is Absolutely Free Where as Outlook Express required License.
- Outlook Express is not an Open Source, But Zimbra is 100% open Source.
- It Supports Documents, Tasks and Briefcase where as Outlook Express supports only Tasks.
- Zimbra Desktop supports Yahoo Mail Support, Address Book Support, Calender Support where as Outlook Express and Thunder Bird will not Support.
- ZD Supports GMail Address Book Support, Calender Support where as Outlook Express and Thunder Bird will not Support.
- Many reasons are there to suggest Zimbra Desktop Compared to Outlook Express and ThunderBird you can check these in this link.
Zimbra Desktop Key Features
- It is Available in 20 languages.
- Messages you composed in Offline will be saved in the “Outbox” and are sent when you connect again.
- Supports plain text and html message formatting.
- Add email signatures for each account and automatically reply with the correct “from” address.
- Collapse email threads into a single Conversation View to simplify your inbox.
- 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
- Automatically save pictures to Flickr.
- Store all your contacts in one place for all your accounts.
- Easily import new contacts from other applications as .csv files or export contacts as .csv files for backup.
- Synchronizes Zimbra, Yahoo! and Gmail contacts and Calenders.
- Import public web calendars (iCal format), such as sports schedules.
- Track your to do’s including start and end dates, percent complete.
- Save attachments in Briefcase and not as message attachments.
- Works with any account you set up.
- Access to mobile devices, the Zimbra online and Web Client.
Zimbra Desktop supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, Apple Mac and Linux Operating Systems.
Download Zimbra Desktop
- Download Windows Zimbra Desktop
- Download Mac Zimbra Desktop
- Download Linux Zimbra Desktop
Do let us know which desktop client you are using to manage multiple Email address?
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Try the 2.0 version: http://www.zimbra.com/forums/announcements/40766-zimbra-desktop-2-0-beta-3-a.html
Thanks for giving info on new client. I will give try to it. So far I used thunderbird, windows live, and other but didn’t like much because they lack some important features. Let me see, how much it worth….
I used it and it is good so far. I like the multiple email login from one client. Most of other do, but they are complicated to use. most important is I can use my university mail account. Thanks for info.
Hi,
Currently I do not use email clients to manage multiple accounts. I just use outlook for my websites email address, and for others, I check them manually, or forward them to one account (gmail).
First time I heard about Zimbra Desktop and it looks pretty good. I also love the fact that it is open source!
Kindest,
Nabeel
@Nabeel, Try it. I assure you that you would not stop using it.
Seems interesting software, going to try it. I’m using Thunder Bird to check my mails.
@Arun, Thunder Bird is also a good one. I have used it. But, after i started using it. I stopped using Thunder Bird.
Thanks for a awesome info and i think this is a alternative app for “MS office outlook”…
@Vijay, Yes it is an alternative to MS office outlook.
With Zimbra you are not able to use multiple email accounts in one folder structure (one sent-box, one address book, one postbox etc.).
It acts as if you have a diffrent program for each email acount.
Each account has its own sent-box, address-book and so on.
Not usable for me in this way.
Outlook and thunderbird could do this easily.
If zimbra would be able to collect my emails from different accounts in one box, I would use it.
I am unable to use this Zimbra Desktop application. Because,when I click desktop icon it does not open but a new window opens and ask for URL address and name.What does this mean? I do not understand.
Will some one guide me and tell how to install?
Address Book in ZD -
I have 10 email accounts that currently use the same address in TBird. The address book is sync’d with Google Contacts. I am able to sync that in ZD but, when composing an email, I can only access it from the account it is associated with. I would like to be able to access it when composing from a different email account. Have you found a way to do that? I am using ZD 7.1.2
Just wondering if anyone has found an answer to that mutiple folder issue with managing accounts….thank-you