Comments on: Zimbra Desktop gives Yahoo Mail offline access

Yahoo, an early leader in Web-based e-mail, is trying to leapfrog Google with its Zimbra Desktop software, which offers online documents and offline access.

[Iggep]

It's also problematic in that it has problems syncing mail with your online mail account. I've been using Zimbra desktop for a few months now and I see this problem all the time. I'm using it in IMap mode, yet various folders will sometimes not sync, or just stop syncing all together. Turning sync off and then back on will fix it at times, but sometimes not. Which of course leads to problems when you access your online mail from another computer and can't find emails you sent or moved from Zimbra.

And the calendar and contacts is a problem. For contacts you have to export them, then import them into Zimbra. And anything you add in Zimbra has to be added manually in Yahoo.

[Zaunto]

Intel Mac compatible only huh? I reckon that means I won't be running it on my Mac (PPC). I suppose I'll try it out on my Vista PC and see if that drives me to drink... LOL!!!

[teachtopia]

Zimbra Desktop is a great application and free. No complaint here!! Also nice to see some positive coverage on Yahoo. My only complaint is that you mentioned that it is a "hefty" download. 38megs is far from hefty in today's world.

[caladan1810]

Window Live Mail is a great application and free too and already does what Zimbra claims to do such as offline access. Although they could integrate the new Windows Calendar into Windows Live Suite. Then I'd be sitting pretty.

[CoolArsh]

Microsfot already offers it with their Live Desktop mail and it is very handy. Too late for Yahoo & Google

[GrandpaN1947]

Anyone know of an email program that does imap that does inline images? Windows Vista mail sux.

[ferricoxide]

As in an IMAP client that displays images as part of the message like ThunderBird does?

[JCPayne]

It is nice to see Yahoo get this....... Now if Gmail gets it next those two will sustain their lead over the rest of the Internet companies out there....

[Ten6Niner]

Maybe I don't understand offline e-mail access, although I though I was fairly smart...Gmail has POP3 server access and I get my Gmail just about realtime, depending on how ofter I have Thunderbird check for mail.

Is this something else entirely?

[caladan1810]

offline e-mail access: basically means you do not need to be connected to the internet to compose your email. It saves it locally. So when you next connect to the internet it will send the saved message when you do a send/receive.

[RussPet]

I've been test driving Zimbra. ... Sor far it is a very weak copy of Thunderbird.
If I'm going to have an "off-line" application, I'm not sure why I would want the overhead of a browser/ajax application.
You cannot drag mail between accounts. Big ouch.
No way to view email in a threaded sort.
None of the nice shortcut keys in Thunderbird.
Still quite buggy. Could not sort on the FROM column in the mail list.
No way that I could see to require a login each time zimbra. it just runs wide open for anyone to walkup and peruse your mail. It would be very nice to have a hot-key to lock the entire interface for all accounts.