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18th 2010f March, 2010
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Zimbra is both a company and the software made by the company. Founded on Christmas of 2003 and having raised more than $30M and reached self-sustainability in only a few years, Zimbra is a software manufacturer based in San Mateo, California. Purchased by Yahoo! in September of 2007, then by VMware in February of 2010, and as of 2010 supporting more than 55 million paid mailboxes including their summer 2007 deal for Comcast's MM customers, Zimbra's primary product is the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS), a server-based groupware product that started by providing web-based enterprise e-mail, calendaring, and contact sharing.

As of Zimbra 6, released September 2, 2009, offline and online ZCS delivers document sharing/versioning, file sharing, secure auditable chat, task lists, and SOX/HIPPA-compliant archiving. ZCS' primary online (SaaS) competitor is Google Apps, and off-line competitors are Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, differentiating itself by delivering an innovative, secure, rich experience through the web first, data portability, open customization/integration, and also providing multi-platform desktop and PDA synchronization to iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Palm OS devices.

The Zimbra web experience is the same across Windows, Mac and Linux through your favorite web browser, and also synchronizes with popular desktop clients including Outlook, Mail.app, iCal, AddressBook, Evolution (open source) and Thunderbird. The Zimbra server software runs on Red Hat Linux, Mac OS, and Linux variants. Zimlets are open-source based Zimbra plug-ins that extend Zimbra's capabilities by integrating third-party applications, services and data sources.
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  1. Comment #1 (Posted by nguyen hai duong )
    i want to download zimbra but i don't know where to download it.
  2. Comment #2 (Posted by FAQ Admin )
    If you want to download the server software to install on your own Linux or Mac server, you may download a free trial of the network professional edition here: http://www.zimbra.com/products/download_network.html If you'd like to try out Zimbra quickly, without any downloads, you can securely sign up for the 30-day, no-obligation 01.com free trial here, it's automatically activated and your login info is sent to you via email in 5 minutes: https://admin.01.com/m/order/products.php Note that for the 01.com 30 day trial, credit card info is required, and you will be both charged and credited $1 (US) to validate your credit card. We have both a demo for a Personal account, which just gives you a single mailbox @zimbra.01.com, or you can try-out our Business Hosting service which requires you enter a domain name (could be a test domain you've purchased, or a subdomain of yours, for example), with which you may add additional mailboxes yourself through the zimbra admin, a secure control panel. And if you'd like to download the free Zimbra Desktop software, you can get that here: http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html
  3. Comment #3 (Posted by Malachy Tarpey )
    Hi I would like to use the Zimbra Business hosting for email on some of my domains. Is it possible for me to point a subdomain to the Zimbra hosting account and run email address off that subdomain, and still use my main domain as normal on with my existing webhost? Could I also split my main domain, so that some email addresses are on the zimbra system, while others are forwarded elsewhere, e.g. to gmail, hotmail accounts etc? thank you, Malachy Tarpey
  4. Comment #4 (Posted by Jay Cihla )
    Hi Malachy, Yes. If you sign up your subdomain and update the MX records on the subdomain only you will not need to change the MX records on your main (primary) domain. For a split domain setup we can forward email for unknown users in Zimbra to your current mail server's IP address. If you want to forward to other mail systems (Gmail, Hotmail, etc.) you can setup the email address as a distribution list in Zimbra and add the external email address as a recipient
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