I used Zimbra Server for a couple years. It is good enough for most
email needs. But I moved away from Zimbra/Kolab/other pre-packaged mail
system in favor of doing it myself, and from there to hosted email via a
web host. Spending my time managing a server was interrupting billable
work hours.
I haven't looked at Zimbra desktop, but suspect it will be a similar
problem as Thunderbird and Kmail - you become tied to a single
application to manage your data. I'm the sort of guy who will try out
new things often just to be aware what is out there. So I'd rather deal
with a system that can work with any mail client. LDAP is a decent
choice - if the mail clients all supported it the same.
I think my best bet is to just export contacts to a common format on a
regular basis - LDIF, vcard, etc. Even then I notice ThunderChicken
can't handle vcards, so the core problem still exists - lots of manual
transfer effort to change out a mail client... I'll make do.
Shawn
TekBudda wrote:
I don't know where you were with this Shawn...but one of the things I
was considering is the Zimbra Desktop. It is cross-platform and
supports, POP, IMAP, etc. & includes calandering, etc. I don't know
if it connects to any LDAP stuff, but it works with their Zimbra
backend.
It is essentially trying to be an Outlook killer with the ZImbra
backend trying to steal the exchange market. I haven't used it myself
to this point, but it looks interesting. I think somoene has even got
the Desktop client in a portable format as well (Windows only I
beleive).
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:15 PM, TekBudda<[email protected]> wrote:
TekBudda wrote:
This is just a thought, but there is an online service called Plaxo that
essentially is a contact database. They have a variety of client plug-ins.
I don't know about the integration with LDAP or whatever, but might be the
scratch for your itch.
If you do decide to drink the google kool-aid, you could look at
http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/index.html & IMAP. I believe these even
include a gmail notified as well.
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