Zimbra Desktop Added to Ubuntu Repositories

      by Wyatt Walter

Everyone’s favorite offline mail client was added to the Ubuntu repositories. Zimbra Desktop beta 3 has been added to the 32-bit partner repositories with 64-bit support coming soon. I’ve been using Zimbra Desktop for a few weeks and enjoy the offline built-in integration with my Zimbra accounts. Since I run multiple Zimbra systems, I have always fought trying to have the integration with both Zimbra accounts within the same mail client. You can add external accounts into the Zimbra web client, but not with the built-in integration with the calendars, contacts, tasks, etc.. It’s still a bit buggy and missing some features, but it appears to be a promising start to a great extension to the Zimbra Collaboration Server. To install Zimbra Desktop on Ubuntu 32-bit, make sure the partner repositories are enabled and run ‘sudo apt-get install zdesktop‘ from the command line. If you’re not running Ubuntu Linux, there’s package downloads for other distros of Linux or packages for Windows or Mac as well.

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