Zimbra — It’s just not an open source email program
Zimbra is another wonderful example of community supported software development. Started by three friends and widely supported and contributed by the community, Zimbra is growing up as a serious challenge for Microsoft’s Exchange server. The exciting thing is that it offers features that are unimaginable otherwise in an Outlook client.
Zimbra can work both inside the web-browser as well as in offline mode on mail-clients as Eudora, Thunderbird, Outlook etc.
With the outburst of Linux desktops in home and the enterprise, Zimbra profits on the Microsoft’s lack of an email service in Linux system.
So, whats so great on Zimbra
1) You view a mail of some earlier day and “tomorrow” and “next Tuesday” translates into relative dates.
2) A phone number gets recognized easily and a direct call to the mail sender could be made through Skype or a configured caller program
3) Create your own customized RSS folders and read your feeds offline, just like mails.
4) This feature is awesome. A mashup on the mail client. Your address calls up the Yahoo map web service and the location of the mail sender is viewed on a map.
These are just “few” of the features. If you interested in knowing all the features, watch this flash video.
