Zimbra tips, examples & hosting blog.

Jared Howell, of Just a Byte computer services, recently welcomed us to share his emails about his experience introducing his customers to 01.com’s quick-start, hosted Zimbra services.

Here’s what he wrote:

I am stuck dealing with awful companies everyday. 01.com is always a breath of fresh air. It is great to have a company and service that I know I can refer to anyone, and they will be pleased on both fronts.  Read more... (429 words and 1 image, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

        

Looking for a straight-forward method to store messages offline? 

Use the Local Folders feature in Zimbra Desktop to archive individual messages (or entire folders) to local storage.  This new feature takes select email out of your online mailbox, providing a convenient way to reduce the size of your online mailbox and stay under a given quota, if any.

Note that by moving messages to Local Folders, messages are removed from your Zimbra account online and stored locally on your computer in the Zimbra Desktop program.  This means that if your computer hard drive crashes your locally archived messages could be lost forever as the messages will not sync back to your Zimbra account online once they are moved to local folders.  Read more... (299 words and 8 images, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

        

As of April, 2009, we’re suspending the activation fees we’ve charged in the past for month-to-month Zimbra hosting.

On average, we estimate this will save new customers 18% in their first year of service.  Along with our 30-day no obligation trial, we hope no activation/setup fees will encourage those considering our services and not yet ready to commit to a prepaid annual term which already has no setup fee.  Read more... (289 words and 1 image, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

        

Ever wonder if you can use your Zimbra email address to chat with others externally, outside of the built-in Instant Messaging (IM, aka “chat”) client in Zimbra webmail?  We’ll show you how using a hosted Zimbra mailbox at 01.com.

By configuring Adium (for Mac clients) and Pidgin (for Windows, Linux and other Unix operating systems), setting up your Zimbra email address for instant messaging only takes a few steps to configure and is an easy way to use your Zimbra account as a chat screenname, allowing you to keep your personal and work instant messaging accounts separate and chat with others throughout the day.  Read more... (591 words and 7 images, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)