Zimbra

iCalendar (the standard .ics not the Apple program) only gets you so far. We’ve previously covered CalDav in Apple’s iCal for Mac, but where does the CalDav field stand for Windows and Linux users?

It’s important to push communication between different programs, platforms, and technologies. We’ve just completed a free-busy interop that we’ll blog more about that later, but you can checkout the forum announcement.   This week, Jong L. and John H. are at CalConnect Roundtable XII from June 2nd to 6th, 2008. Where they’re doing some heavy testing with other clients and servers to make sure that we’re compatible and standards-compliant.

A good consortium for that is CalConnect’s Interoperability Test Events (C.I.T.E.) the latest we attended during a previous Roundtable back in February. It included all sorts of IOP and Mobile IOP events, where interoperability testing between different calendaring and scheduling implementations were preformed. Organizations participating in the C.I.T.E. events were Apple, Microsoft, Zimbra (Yahoo!), Oracle, Sun, Kerio, Marware, Scalix, and Sony Ericsson.

While there’s plenty of CalDav compatible programs out there our server-team judges are firm: Pizazz and setup wizards won’t get you anywhere if you can’t correct that meeting time or properly notify others of the change.

If you want strict specification adherence in a cross-app & cross-platform thick-client: Our winner is Mulbery for Linux, Windows, & Mac. In addition to being a Swiss-army-knife of protocols, it’s also Open Source.

How to set it up? Checkout the wiki article CalDav and Mulberry – Zimbra :: Wiki or drop in over at the community forums for help.

Download and give it a try: http://www.mulberrymail.com/

For those of us who live and breath by our calendar, making sure that you always have access to it, is a must. Enter the CalDAV Protocol: A standardized way for different clients to access one calendar. Leopard’s (OS 10.5) iCal application has built in CalDav support, and it works great with Zimbra 5.0. Here’s a quick overview.

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Zimbra has a toaster for Mac, and a toaster for Windows…but didn’t have a toaster for Linux until pbruna came along with his adaptation of the checkgmail program by Owen Marshall. Linux fanboys rejoice, your toaster is here (bread not included).

If you haven’t had time to drop by the forums lately here’s a quick preview of a recent community contributed project.

Our Linux users have been keeping an eye on this RFE, as it would make a nice complement to Zimbra Desktop.

Bugzilla has a ton of your cool ideas that we’re working hard to get finished. In the meantime, Linux users: how do you find out when that e-mail you’re expecting, has come in?

PBruna has come to the rescue with a toaster-like sibling!

He’s also hard at work to produce a SOAP based version so that it will do things like:

You can grab his current version over at the Zimbra Gallery.

Wiki: ZimbraNotify – Zimbra :: Wiki
Got a comment or question about ZimbraNotify? Join the discussion over at the Zimbra Forums

The coolest thing ever is highlighted in this blog post with a cool video. It took us a little longer than expected to get the extension out, but it’s ready. You need to make sure that you have the com_zimbra_dnd.zip zimlet installed on the server.

This is a Firefox 2.0+ (including Beta 3) extension that allows ZCS 5.0+ users to simply drag attachments into their briefcase and mail compose window.

Special thanks to Suman Raj who spent countless hours getting writing this and keeping Zimbra awesome! The extension can be found over that the Zimbra Gallery.
 
Enjoy!

 

Toolware Pty has written a very cool Thunderbird Extension for Zimbra called Zindus. It is open-source software and runs on all Thunderbird platforms including Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.

Thunderbird users take note! There’s an awesome extension that syncs your contacts between Zimbra and Thunderbird. It syncs everything from Address Books to your GAL (Global Address List).

Although not an officially supported extension, some users in our Forums have already adopted this new extension. Zindus is Open Source (which is why I’m blogging about it).

I’ve used the extension, and had no trouble syncing all my contacts from ZCS 5.0 to Thunderbird version 2.0.0.9 (20071031). Zindus works with ZCS 3.x-5.0 Open Source and Network Editions

If you use Thunderbird, and want your contacts, just go over to the Zindus site, and download the extension.

Site: http://www.zindus.com/

PS- We don’t make this extension. We just think it’s cool!

A few days back, I saw this tip about how to add a certain web-based e-mail’s calendar to your Firefox side bar. I thought to myself, “I know we can do that, but what else can it do?”

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Continuing our “The Power of Search” PowerTip series, we bring you “The Power of Search Part 2: Visual Search”. Last time we discussed search bar commands. In this Zimbra User PowerTip, we will discuss how to use Zimbra’s visual advanced search.

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Many of us have several different e-mail accounts. In this User’s PowerTip, we’ll discuss how to use Zimbra to aggregate mail from other servers. This way, you only have to open one e-mail account to see all of your mail.

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One of the more overlooked features of the Zimbra Web Client is the Zimbra Minicalendar.
In this User PowerTip, we will discuss how to schedule appointments with 2 clicks of the mouse using the drag ‘n drop feature. We also added the ability to download this PowerTip in PDF format.

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