Comments on: Latest Zimbra Desktop beta brings Yahoo! Mail to your desktop

By: Offline Gmail: What’s the Big Deal? | Techans

Offline Gmail: What’s the Big Deal? | Techans — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:53:35 +0000

[...] is for those email addresses which do not end in @yahoo.com. Recently all Yahoo Mail users were given the option to download email offline by using its own proprietary Zimbra mail [...]

By: Gmail Innovates as Yahoo Mail Continues to Stagnate | Techans

Gmail Innovates as Yahoo Mail Continues to Stagnate | Techans — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:52:32 +0000

[...] Yahoo’s decision to allow its US users to read mail offline by installing their own proprietary Zimbra software. This comes at a time when Microsoft realised its mistake of allowing offline access to [...]

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:22:23 +0000

Hi! I am surprised how soon all of you just send feedback! I think you have to test this product for more time and then send proper feedback to yahoo. As I am a IT Techy and working on web 2.0 services, and its still under testing and it is going more productive in future. So lets wait and keep testing untill and unless you are not able to download a full and perfect version.
Hi Ryan,
I appreciate you for solving the queries of peoples. Thank you.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:26:45 +0000

Before everyone runs off and jumps on the iPhone/Blackberry bandwagon, let’s not forget the Treo. I’d like to see some sort if IMAP access for Treos and Centros as well. Perhaps a Zimbra for Palm client?

By: benjamin

benjamin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:50:59 +0000

Look, Y! mail is already running imap, and it works terribly on the windows mobile platform. Setup your device to get IMAP4 mail from imap.mail.yahoo.com…. Oh, and don’t get excited about using a desktop client, yahoo’s IMAP mail servers are looking for a specific string of data to be sent before authentication:
15 1.222444 204.8.41.152 76.13.13.150 IMAP Request: ID (“vendor” “Microsoft” “os” “Windows Mobile” “os-version” “5.2″ “os-revision” “1.0.4″ “guid” “74dfdd6cdef9fd7640ceec06c54d169cff1fc5d2″)

If you don’t send this, or the iphone equivalent, authentication will fail.

By: Oren

Oren — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:03:03 +0000

I was just really curious about something. I know you guys have probably gotten tons of eamil about it already, so this is another to throw on the pile. I have been using yahoo for quite some time. I always like exploring my options as well. What has been the issue with Yahoo and IMAP? I really don’t understand. I had an iPhone until recently and “IMAP” worked on it beautifully. Now along comes Zimbra ( I am not sure why Yahoo bothered with it) and they offer IMAP thru the Suite. Now I understand I can pay for Pop access, but it’s really not helpful when you have other folders and keep everything organized. The most basic question is…Why the wait with IMAP? EVERYONE else uses it. I recently played around with Hotmail and Gmail and they worked wonderfully with Outlook 2007. Hotmail even syncs the calender now as well. Now don;t get me wrong, I’m not hopping on the Microsoft bandwagon yet. But when I look at features like the incredibly outdated calender, and the fact that Yahoo sunk a lot of money into Zimbra (possibly a very futile effort to unsurp Outlook?? )…and no IMAP when everyone else has had it and has been offering for free the last few years…makes me wonder. I will say this, Yahoo has an incredibly great homepage that is nice to configure. I do like the new look for email (although a more configureable readng pane would be nice, namely a side view instead of right below the message list)..but there will have to be some changes I would think….very soon. Oh, I almost forgot…now Yahoo offers a more enhanced version for iPhone users as well. Hmmm…does this mean that Yahoo is becoming more Mac friendly and is dropping off support for PC and WinMo devices?…Just some points to ponder. I would like to see the new Yahoo home page rolling out very soon. I find it disappointing that every country gets offered these updates as betas without the U.S. That kind of bothers me. I would hate to get away from yahoo as I have used it the last few years…but at this rate…I’ll have to switch over. Tell me there is some hope in there somewhere? It seems as if Yahoo has lost touch with the customers. Paying for email? I won’t. I just think Yahoo to get back in touch with the people. Intergrate everything a little bit better. More themes for mail. UPDATE THE CALENDER YAHOO !! Goodness.it ios a hideous throwback. Anyways…I am done rambling now. Its looking more and more like I am going to have to switch, regrettably…..

By: Mesut

Mesut — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:36:01 +0000

Why can’t we use IMAP feauture with Microsoft Outlook or any client??? WHY?
I donn’t like zimbra; and i prefer Mic.Outlook…

By: Scott J. Smith

Scott J. Smith — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:03:31 +0000

Any way to set Zimbra to only download the last # of emails, or emails over the past # of days? Not interested in any application (OTLK, T-Bird, Z, etc.) downloading years’ worth of emails the first time out…just because it has to.

Also, when mobile, I only need to keep track of the past week’s emails, anyway. I tend to use my Windows Mobile phone for checking email, because it automatically deletes older emails when I sync. Can’t seem to find a desktop application that will do the same.

By: Jose Luiz Diez

Jose Luiz Diez — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:57:08 +0000

Sorry for post it so many days after. I’m from Brazil, and I love these discussions about Yahoo! and IMAP. I’m a Mac user, and the my only reason that I’m subscriber of MobileMe, former .Mac, is the IMAP access. Gmail? Don’t need it, I have Yahoo! But I agree that with IMAP Gmail is taking a lot of Yahoo! (and other) users. My opinion is Yahoo! is wasting time on introduce IMAP protocol. Maybe on a first step it could by allowed to Plus users, and then to all Yahoo! subscribers.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:09:06 +0000

Jeff,

In fact no. This version of the beta supports Plus and Free YMail users.

-Ryan