It has to be said that the overall interface isn't exactly slick and could do with being given a much nicer OS X look or Cocoa revamp. You can search items very quickly using the search field at the top of the interface although again, this can be a little slow. Zimbra Desktop elements such as inbox, contacts, calendar or documents appear in a new tab in your default browser. Syncing with Zimbra Desktop is fairly fast although even this could be a made a little quicker. The developer touts Zimbra Desktop as a possible replacement for Outlook, and if you really hate the Microsoft utility it's a viable alternative. Zimbra Desktop syncs Yahoo! Mail and Gmail accounts, and it can read email from any POP or IMAP email account, including AOL, Hotmail or business email. You have to configure all of your server and mail details in your Zimbra account before you can start working. This is one of the easy methods suggested by our Experienced Server Admins.Firstly, installation of Zimbra Desktop is lengthy, requiring you to sign up for a Zimbra account, so make sure you have a bit of time spare before starting on this. In short, we saw the steps to configure Microsoft Outlook to connect to the Zimbra email server for sending and receiving emails. We are set to start sending and receiving emails on the Outlook application. Outgoing server: Zimbra hostname | or relay server if anyįinally, we try to login into the account and send a test email. In the Outgoing Server area, choose TLS for the type of encrypted connection, and change the port number to 465. In the Incoming Server area, choose SSL for the type of encrypted connection, and change the port number to 993.
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Remember password: If we do not want to type in the password whenever Outlook opens, check this box. Outgoing mail server: hostname of Zimbra mail server Incoming mail server: hostname of Zimbra mail server (MX record value) Your Name: Enter name which will appear when we send out an email