Zimbra Features

Features Summary:

• Document sharing
• Desktop sync with Outlook, Entourage, iCal, Address Book & Mail
• Aggregate external POP email accounts
• Use Mail Identities to choose different signatures or 'from' addresses
• Create personalized distribution lists from your own contacts
• Specify higher security requirements on your passwords
• Read email in basic, lightweight HTML mode, or Advanced Ajax
• Zimbra Mobile now supports "push" email to devices **
• Support for Tasks in Microsoft Outlook
• Mail archiving and search
• Message Tagging and conversation management
  

End-User Benefits

• Self-Organizing Mailboxes
• Powerful, fast search (including messages and attachments)
• Saved searches across folders
• Conversation management across folders
• Tags for automatic and hand categorization of messages
• Active Messaging™ - Extensible web services model for linking message content to applications (for mouse-over and click) **
• Intranet - ERP, CRM, Support, Finance, HR, VoIP phone, etc.
• Internet - Google Maps, Skype, Travel, Package Tracking, etc.
• Messaging application - Access across email, contacts, calendar, etc. without switching context
• Any Place, Any Machine
• Zero footprint, rich AJAX Web client (cross browser/OS)
• Security sans VPN
• Secure, read-only access to attachments without special-purpose client software
• Wiki-based collaboration
• Freedom of Client Choice
• PC - Outlook (Online, Offline, Cached Mode), Apple Mail and iCal, Eudora, Evolution, Thunderbird/Sunbird, RSS, etc.
• Mobile - Wireless devices "over the air" synchronization without special client software: Palm, Nokia, Motorola, PocketPC, etc. Other devices may require a seperate mobile client to be downloaded. (Blackberry scheduled for 1Q 2008) **

Admin Benefits

• Complete Solution
• Native archiving capabilities
• Native discovery/cross mailbox search
• Native replication/disaster recovery (WAN optimized)
• Native hierarchical storage management (HSM)
• Server and Storage Consolidation
• Substantial reduction in managed storage - One copy of email & attachments per server (rather than one per user or one per storage group)
• Substantial increase in the number of users per CPU - Multi-level caching and optimization of underlying open source software (Linux File System, MySQL, Postfix, etc.)
• Lower-Overhead Management
• Easy installation and configuration
• On-line automated backup
• On-line, intelligent restore (single mailbox, point-in-time, etc.)
• Fast mailbox move
• Rich, secure, zero administration client
• Compatibility with existing infrastructure
• Client - Outlook, Mobile, IMAP, POP, iCalendar, RSS, etc.
• Directory - Active Directory/LDAP integration, provisioning support
• Messaging Server - Co-existence and migration tools (including Microsoft Exchange)
• Web services - Bi-directional integration with enterprise applications
• Security
• Web security model - Single sign-on, no VPN required
• Secured attachment opening and HTML rendering
• SpamAssassin and ClamAV included
• Compatibility with existing anti-spam/anti-virus (via Postfix & amavisd-new)
• Open solution
• Open source
• Open formats - One MIME message per file means Zimbra storage is not opaque to sys. admin. or operating system utilities

More details are available in the Zimbra Data Sheet. (PDF)

** Additional Software may be required