Zimbra Adds Reminder Zimlets

      by Wyatt Walter

Zimbra has been gaining popularity as an open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange for some time, but its real power is in its ZImlet extension functionality. Last week they added a killer Zimlet to their arsenal as well as a new Zimlet this week that will be very handy and both revolve around helping us not forget things, a problem any busy person faces. :) Last week’s Zimlet was an email reminder Zimlet. The extension allows you to set a reminder to respond to an email so it’s not forgotten. This is a great replacement to my error-prone system of marking items as unread that I need to remember to respond to. For instance, let’s say I get an email that a subscription or license to something will be expiring in a few months. Rather than placing an event in my calendar and possibly missing the reminder after the date goes by, I can set a reminder that I need to do something about that email later on. For me, this is a killer feature as I often forget to respond to emails that don’t necessarily need to be responded to right away. The second reminder Zimlet is a birthday reminder. It allows you to remind you of a birthday of one of your contacts and set multiple reminders before the birthday so you don’t have to worry about forgetting a birthday and get yourself into trouble :) Both of these new Zimlets require ZCS 5.0.12 or greater for the server-side or you can install them into Zimbra Desktop as well.

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