CalDav + Zimbra rocks
I'm nearly a week into my Zimbra conversion and I am very, very happy. I'm still having some issues with Zimbra Desktop (sometimes it syncs (email), and sometimes it doesn't - this may be because I've yet to do a full sync because I've been on a narrowband connection while on holiday this week), but the web client is amazing. I used to say I'd never use it. Now I'm having a hard time figuring out why I need to use fat-client email at all.
The thing that has me happiest, though, is CalDav. John Robb, vice president of Marketing for Zimbra, walked me through set-up on Wednesday afternoon as I was leaving OSBC. Since then, my Zimbra-to-iCal (or the reverse) sync has been flawless. I change an appointment in iCal and it magically changes in Zimbra. No manual sync required. It just happens.
Now I need Zimbra Contacts to Apple's Address Book to work that cleanly. It's not a bad solution, but CalDav is soooo much better.
Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
I'm also a Zimbra user. I have it sync'd the same way with Mozilla Thunderbird. My only issue is that I can't figure out how to make reminders happen. Do you have luck with that?
Mike
I'm also a Zimbra user. I have it sync'd the same way with Mozilla Thunderbird. My only issue is that I can't figure out how to make reminders happen. Do you have luck with that?
Mike
I'm also a Zimbra user. I have it sync'd the same way with Mozilla Thunderbird. My only issue is that I can't figure out how to make reminders happen. Do you have luck with that?
Mike
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by kenneth.barber
March 29, 2008 8:26 AM PDT
- "Now I'm having a hard time figuring out why I need to use fat-client email at all." I switched to the gmail web client a few years ago - and I've never looked back. I've converted others away from Outlook and other fat clients and even the most non-technical user has been happy with the change. That feeling of zero setup, maximum portability and not really losing anything in the switch is awesome. I guess the only fear factor is that you don't "download" your email doing it this way ... people like the safety of having a copy on their own machine I guess.
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