Zimbra 6.0 Beta: A first look

      by Wyatt Walter

Over the weekend Zimbra announced the availability of the first beta of its new version 6.0 collaboration suite. The release is expected to be in a production-ready state and is this beta was the public’s first view of the suite. The new beta seems to focus mostly on new user preferences and polishing off the interface. The list of new features is quite extensive, but of note for users that I’ve heard from so far are:

  • Compose message has been moved to a tab – you can compose a message, flip to another tab, and come back to the compose tab without saving as draft
  • The ability to run new mail filters over existing mail folders
  • A new share discovery interface that shows shares that are available to you as well as shares that are created for your account

share-discovery-ui

  • Zimlet management for allowed Zimlets in the Preferences tab of the web client
  • Ability to attach documents to an email directly from the Briefcase
  • IM moved from a tab along the top to the bottom
  • Per-user blacklists and whitelists right from within the Preferences tab of the web client

user-blacklist-whitelist

There are also a number of new features on the administrative backend, including a new logger service and the addition of  a “Delegated admin” for the Network Edition which is a domain administrator can be allowed to manage multiple domains instead of being limited to a single domain.

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