Our experience using Zimbra Email & Collab - it's so-so
October 14, 2021
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Zimbra Email & Collaboration
Zimbra Email & Collaboration
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Video files (8)
8.5
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Audio files (8)
8.5
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What is Zimbra Email & Collaboration?
Zimbra offers social collaboration software.
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
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Features Scorecard
Project Management
8.7
87%
Communication
8.1
81%
File Sharing & Management
8.6
86%
Product Details
What is Zimbra Email & Collaboration?
Zimbra is an email and collaboration platform and productivity suite that includes contacts, calendar, tasks, chat and file sharing, plus videoconferencing, document editing, and file storage. Built on an open source core, it features a modern interface, pre-integrations with popular third-party apps like Zoom, Slack and Dropbox, and can be deployed in the cloud or in on-prem and hybrid environments. Enterprises, governments, financial institutions, service providers and remote teams around the world rely on Zimbra to support complex privacy, data sovereignty and security requirements. The vendor states Zimbra powers hundreds of millions of mailboxes on desktop and mobile devices in more than 140 countries, and is offered by more than 500 BSPs and 2,000 channel partners. Also available now for small and medium-sized business is Zimbra Cloud, starting at $2.95 per month for 30 GB of storage.
Zimbra Email & Collaboration Features
Project Management Features
- Supported: File tracking
- Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools
Communication Features
- Supported: Chat
- Supported: Notifications
- Supported: Discussions
- Supported: User directory and online status
- Supported: Sharing and privacy
- Supported: Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
File Sharing & Management Features
- Supported: Versioning
- Supported: Document files
- Supported: Image files
- Supported: Video files
- Supported: Audio files
- Supported: Document collaboration
- Supported: Shared folders
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Zimbra Email & Collaboration Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Zimbra offers social collaboration software.
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What is Zimbra Email & Collaboration's best feature?
Reviewers rate Mobile Access and Search highest, with a score of 10.
Who uses Zimbra Email & Collaboration?
The most common users of Zimbra Email & Collaboration are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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October 14, 2021
Our experience using Zimbra Email & Collab - it's so-so
We are using Zimbra from Reseller Platform, it's a white label of Zimbra Email Collaboration. It's used for a whole organization to coordinate, collaborate, and broadcast a message to entire / specific department in the group. It solves our problem that have a large team ( >100 people ) but don't want to use G Suite because it's too pricey.
- Nice UX, its easy to navigate
- Advanced Sharing Access into a resource
- Has an integration with 3rd party
- After Sales Support, hard to reach
- Mobile isn't as friendly as desktop
May 27, 2021
Complete tool for message box and collaborations
Great tool for professional use, very easy to use, with easy navigation. Interacts very well with several other applications, including Webex. Very efficient structural organization of the agenda and timetable. Excellent accessibility and availability. Very good for sharing between teams and people. 100% collaboration. It has a tab to include tasks that is very useful and makes my life much faster.
- Very simple and functional navigation
- Fast collaboration
- Integration with other applications.
- Time-consuming Technical Support
- Increase the capacity for integration
- The mobile app sometimes takes time to load some views even with fast internet and equipment
We use Zimbra as a messaging solution, not only for its solid operation but also for how scalable it can be, the integration with chats and the agenda to ensure meetings, all the departments of the company access through a super intuitive web portal from any device to use your corporate emails.
- Intuitive use for users.
- Easy to manage.
- Great scalability and integration.
- The schedules are not yet synchronized for the open version.
- Video calls not yet supported.
- Mobile application not yet available for devices.
Zimbra is our current messaging software, I use it daily to send and receive emails among colleagues, suppliers, and customers. This has turned out to be a very useful and efficient application when communicating within the company. Each employee has their respective corporate mail which is for personal and exclusive use to receive confidential and confidential labor information. The application is easy to use and has a graphical interface similar to others in the same segment, making it easy to become familiar with.
- Filter emails with specific information required.
- Very good storage capacity.
- Has a mobile version and another web.
- It has a friendly and modern graphic interface.
- It is compatible with all operating systems.
- In the mobile version, it is not possible to attach files, it only allows to send messages with text.
- The mobile version is too basic and lacks functions that if you have the web version.
- Lacks the facility to communicate with an online chat.
We use Zimbra as our mail platform, contact management and to share some files within our group of companies. Zimbra supports one of the most important applications, which is our email system. It manages our companies on the same platform. The global and personalized management of contacts has facilitated the management of our users, regardless of the location they are in. Additionally, it gives us different ways of connecting to the mail and to the information, which allows more versatile management options, since our platform is heterogeneous.
- The management of incremental mail backup. It is very simple, and the administrators of my company recover information quickly.
- The management of the distribution lists is structured. This allows easy distribution of mass information.
- The web application is very complete and intuitive.
- The password change is not activated when you access by IMAP, Pop3 or Exchange sync. You have to know that the password change is required and you must go to the website to do so.
- The management of mail rules should have more checking options.
- There should be more applications compatible with Zimbra, the ones that appear in the Zimlets.
December 23, 2018
Zimbra is a powerful email server
We are currently using the Zimbra email service throughout the company. Zimbra allows us to efficiently manage our email server with a number of open source technologies, with built-in anti-spam, shared calendars and shared address books. We are able to easily collaborate, invite to meetings, and conference at the touch of a button. It stores all of our contacts and shows us who is busy and when we can seamlessly integrate new meetings and conferences. We have definitely achieved significant savings in the time required to manage IMAP, webmail, etc.
- Zimbra offers advanced functionalities, beyond the IMAP protocol and better performance compared to similar mail services.
- Zimbra offers the option to work from anywhere and device, with a very nice interface, from a desktop, mobile or tablet, compared to other similar services that are more complex to use.
- Zimbra has the possibility of modifying the source code to customize its functions and services, an added value that other platforms do not have.
- You can optimize the module to create and share content on the web to improve the publishing interface.
- Zimbra must improve the management of user groups for different machines within a domain.
- The password manager is sometimes complicated and requires the creation of new passwords.
August 27, 2018
My Experience with Zimbra
Zimbra is being used across our whole organization. It solves the problem of communication. At a moment's notice I can communicate with my entire team. They can receive my mail on their phones, tablets, laptops and desk tops, no matter where they are in the building. I also use it for getting paper records to essential team members by scanning them to their email.
- One example of something that Zimbra does particularly well is the capacity available to attach large files, up to 25MB. For me, this is a strength as it allows me to email medical records files instead of printing them. This saves my department the cost of ink, paper and shipping.
- The calendar sharing feature of Zimbra is also a strength because with it, the IDT team are all on the same page. This is critical for maintaining compliance with CMS regulations regarding MDS assessments. I utilize our shared calendar to perform quarterly audits of the IDT team.
- I particularly like the auto search when entering the contact who will be receiving an email, this saves key strokes and time.
- I am quite satisfied with the features that I currently use. I am an advanced user, not an expert.
March 31, 2017
Zimbra - Powerful and reliable collaboration suite
We use Zimbra to increase collaboration using e-mail communication, file sharing, task control, invitation for events, etc, for everybody in our company using multi domains and several dedicated servers. We have distinct user types and with Zimbra we can address specific necessities of each one.
We use Zimbra in an University and email are fundamental here. Zimbra allowed us a way to increase the collaboration between teachers, students, and even our workers, allowing them to share files, their agenda, and any information to improve their work.
We use Zimbra in an University and email are fundamental here. Zimbra allowed us a way to increase the collaboration between teachers, students, and even our workers, allowing them to share files, their agenda, and any information to improve their work.
- You can share your mail folders, contact and task lists, work together on a text file, all that defining what kind of level of share a person can have, from view to full control of it.
- Great search engine that allows you to search even inside some types of archives (pdf, txt, etc). And in the paid version, you have a working backup system.
- Supports external connectivity like IMAP/POP.
- Multi language support and possibility to expand it using plugins are also available.
- Supports several platforms and you can use the one that you are most familiar like Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Suse, etc.
- Support external authentication (LDAP).
- User web interface could be more friendly, but it is enough for daily use. It could be renewed and has to consider some usability concerns. Improving usability would significantly improve users' satisfaction.
- Message backup recovery is not a simple activity.
- As an administrator, some of the features work better using the command-line interface.
- The webclient uses ajax requests in almost every event. Because of that you may need a fast internet connection to have a good experience. You can switch to HTML version but it will limit what you can do.
We use Zimbra for all faculty/staff email accounts. We use it for individual email accounts as well as a large number of shared email accounts for departments or programs. We find the shared accounts to be especially useful for how we do business. We primarily use the web interface instead of a desktop client like Outlook. Most employees that use mobile access on their devices access Zimbra with the iOS or Android built-in Exchange/ActiveSync clients.
- Zimbra's web interface is second to none. It is better for most than even thick clients like Outlook. It provides a consistent experience across platforms so we don't have to worry about Mac vs. PC for how it works.
- It is relatively easy to maintain and administer, and far less complex than other locally hosted environments like Exchange.
- It has a powerful scripting interface, and a RESTful API that makes it easy to write scripts to manage accounts.
- Zimbra needs to get their act together with their multi-server environment. It is long past when they initially announced their "Project Always On", which would allow accounts to be hosted on multiple mailbox servers at a time for high availability.
- The need to work on their bugs. The product releases have been significantly buggier since the 7.x era. Upgrading from 7.x to 8.0.9 introduced a lot of problems. Later releases fixed some, but caused others.
- Our experience with technical support staff from Zimbra is not what it used to be. They used to have one of the best technical support groups, but our experiences with them in the past two years haven't been as positive.