![]() It also comes in handy for all users who need to download their e-mail messages for offline viewing. There's 2 good reasons for a fat client for our use case.Zimbra Desktop is an intuitive Windows application built specifically for helping you manage multiple email accounts from a single interface. So then, offline storage is too limited and multiple accounts are an unworkable hack. Still, a hacky solution to the problem.Įdit 2 : So I tried offline mode it and it's limited to 30 days. Multiple accounts on the same server, although I can work around that by creating a second address (interface or alias) for the server and the web browser can manage one account on each address. Let's see how good the offline usage works.Įdit : Actually, I just discovered a 4th reason. Thanks for the poke into looking at it from a different angle. Once I can overcome the technical issues, then I shouldn't have any issues managing the intertia problem. Now I just need to see if I can make it reliably keep 9 months of mail and calendar data stored off-line. So, your question prompted me to look at the ability to sandbox the browser as a "zimbra only" instance, without sharing any config or data directories with other instances and it appears relatively easy to achieve. All client connectivity is on the secure side of that network (whether physically or via VPN). The zimbra instance sits on a segregated network with several layers between it and the outside world. Segregation : We do a _lot_ of work where we have security rules that couldn't be satisfied by using a web browser in a shared capacity. Over the years we've determined that we routinely use about 9 months worth of archive while we are disconnected, so we've all got our laptop ZD installations set to retain 9 months of data (mail and calendar). So we sync up when we can and then operate offline. Offline storage : We do a _lot_ of work in locations where we are just not able or permitted to have any connectivity with the outside world (sometimes for a few days). We don't like change for the sake of change. We've done it this way for years now and it perfectly fits our use case. ![]() I love these questions because they force us to re-examine why we do what we do.ģ Reasons : Inertia, Offline storage and segregation. The web interface is essentially identical to ZD and Zimbra 8 and modern browsers support offline usage (works great I use it often when traveling). ![]() Mark Stone wrote:Curious why you feel you must have a fat client like Zimbra Desktop? It doesn't hurt to let our team know that you want it, but we just didn't see enough depend for an offline version to keep it going- but that isn't to say it's out of the question. Shared items, specifically.īut I'm afraid there isn't a 1 to 1 replacement for it at present. ![]() If you're a network edition customer, then those things (most of them, anyway) are within the NG ActiveSync module. But if you have multiple users using Zimbra Desktop, it means that the server can experience severe performance issues.īut what people loved about the Desktop product is how it had all the features which stock IMAP and POP3 clients don't have- and that's your question: Where can I get those? On a low volume server, that's not a problem. Each request ends up spawning a new soap session. The bug is that the desktop doesn't use existing soap sessions. There's a bug between the SOAP version that it uses and the one that Zimbra 8 or higher uses. So Desktop was canceled, then brought back, now canceled again? What is Zimbra planning to do in Desktop's absence?Īs much as I love Zimbra Desktop, I would not use it with versions 8 or higher. It will reach the end of Technical Guidance October 1, 2019. The Zimbra Desktop is no longer supported.
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