Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop is ready for syncing with Calendar and Contacts
- Posted December 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm by Ryan
- Categories: Address Book & Calendar, All-New Mail, General, New Stuff, Tips & Tutorials
Back when I posted about updates to the Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop beta (get the latest version here) many people were intrigued. It was, after all, our first real step into the IMAP world, and it also represented a great way for users with multiple Yahoo! accounts to easily keep track of them without the dreaded logout-login-logout-login.
One of the more frequent comments from users had to do with something that we alluded to but was not yet supported … synchronizing your Yahoo! Contacts and Calendar with Zimbra. Well the latest version, also dubbed “beta 5″, does just that.
To take advantage of the Calendar sync you will have to be on the new Yahoo! Calendar Beta (CalDav supported), but anyone should be able to sync their Contacts. That was actually supported with a recent version, but I dropped the ball on announcing it.
After you have installed or updated your Zimbra software, go to the Account Setup link and then look for the link to Edit your account details. You should see a whole bunch of fun Synchronization Settings to select. Just like the first time you set up your Zimbra, it should take some time to populate. But once it finishes the first sync it should be much faster.
If you run into problems you can head over to the Zimbra Desktop forums to give feedback or report issues.
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- 68 Comments
December 8th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Nice, I’m glad to see this being implemented.
Once it’s out of beta, I’ll probably try Zimbra again. I had issues with it on the Mac a few weeks ago so I just went back to using the web interface.
December 11th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Yah I know right I dont even know how to use this thing!!!=0
Thats really sad right
January 19th, 2009 at 11:40 am
Yes it is very Sad Fergielis
January 19th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Yes it is very Sad Fergielis Ferige
December 8th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
ROCKY_0717@YAHOO.COM
December 8th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
u’re nice n friendly also kindly men. even i never melt u. thats only my suggest. am i right ? :)
December 8th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
What the hell are you guys talking about?
December 12th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
for real!
December 8th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Hi Ryan,
That’s all great news, except that I’m still getting the message that my language is not supported, although I’m sitting here in Amarillo, TX. I’ve seen a bazillion other messages about the same thing but so far, no answers. Can you give us all a hint of what’s going on? Thanks…Lee
December 11th, 2008 at 6:50 am
I have to agree I have not been able to view the new calendar because my language isn’t supported… How can English not be supported?
December 9th, 2008 at 4:59 am
I think Zimbra might have worked perhaps once for me… I’m staying away from this piece of garbage until it’s out of Beta. Even so, this is not a very elegant solution.
Would Yahoo please just do whatever it has to do to offer IMAP like GMail and AOL do, in which they let you use whatever client you want? I can’t believe a big company like Yahoo is so far behind on the curve on something like this, but apparently that’s the case.
December 9th, 2008 at 6:27 am
I THOUGHT YAHOO WAS GREAT WHEN I FIRST GOT IN YAHOO BUT THEY KEEP MESSING IT UP SO BAD .ONE CANT GET ON AND PLAY MUSIC IN YAHOO MESSENGER CHAT AND MUSIC ROOMS NOW YAHOO IS A MESS BETA STINKS???
December 11th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I agree, it just keeps getting worse. Flashing graphics where you are trying to read your email for starters. Then the finance section gives users less and less information.
I don’t want all the new stuff. I just want to keep using the email I have used for over 10 years, but I am wondering if it is time to move.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:26 am
lol i luv ure comment u should read mine
December 11th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Maybe if you stop writing in all caps, you will not have any trouble using Yahoo. all caps display anger and rudeness, and therefore decrease the intelligence, then it decrease your ability to comprehend how things work…. I do have complaint about some Yahoo products, but most of things doing better now. Problems are less now on Yahoo Messenger than before, yahoo mail works better than before…etc
December 12th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Hey… Next time, turn the caps lock off! Duh!
December 13th, 2008 at 5:17 am
I have had yahoo for many years. was gone from it for a long time now i cant find any of my pictures nothing, what is up with yahoo and why did it take all my pics?
December 9th, 2008 at 6:29 am
GET YAHOO BACK LIKE IT USE TO BE——OK
December 9th, 2008 at 6:39 am
I can’t believe there are this many grouchy people in the world. It’s a BETA — and a very cool one at that. It’s FREE — and showing remarkable potential. Congrats on the ongoing fine work; I’m excited about the download.
December 9th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
When will Zimbra be available for Yahoo! business mail users? According to the Zimbra forums, the problem is fixed on the Zimbra side but “but there’s a bizmail related authentication issue that’s affecting all imap clients including iphones. that issue is being investigated by the yahoo mail server team.”
Link to forum http://preview.tinyurl.com/5sjn5v
December 9th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
[...] Liens: Zimbra: http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html Plus d’informations concernant Zimbra Source: Yahoo Mail blog [...]
January 8th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
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December 9th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Dear Sirs,
In my opinion, Yahoo should keep away from Zimbra and find their one way to implement IMAP, POP3 and SMTP without them.
In Portugal the Zimbra Company bought the ZMAIL company, that work very well till that moment and suddenly, just before lots of payments for the service, they simply close the service without notice leaving the majority of the users without access to their mails and never refund the money.
I leave the link to the petition on Zimbra mail service in Portugal: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Zmail1/
Yahoo, please keep away from Zimbra.
Sorry to say this and probably they don’t have nothing to do with the “ZMAIL/Zimbra” case but the name Zimbra was there and I’m one their users.
Paulo Grabulho
December 11th, 2008 at 10:43 am
there is little value of zimbra over the expectations of so many fans of yahoo who are still waiting and longing for implementation of IMAP. zimbra adds little value to your customer service
December 11th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Would someone please define “Zimbra” for us that are confused as to what ya’ll are talking about! May as well be Greek to me.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I couldn’t agree more with what zukuzuku said.
I think Yahoo is trying to justify its investment in Zimbra (which cost it $350 Million): http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zimbra_why_did_yahoo_buy_them.php
What surprises me is that there’s barely over a dozen comments regarding Zimbra on this blog posting. You’d think that there’d be more interest in Zimbra given Yahoo’s PR efforts and the news/reviews out there but I guess it’s not proving too popular of a solution after all…
Eventually those “fans of Yahoo” of whom zukuzuku speaks won’t be “waiting or longing” for IMAP from Yahoo anymore… They’ll be leaving for providers who offer it like GMail or AOL, who offer it for free in whatever client you want.
December 13th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I think you’re right. I’ve been a Yahoo! premium subscriber for a number of years, and I’m about to switch despite the pain of having to change e-mail addresses. Lack of IMAP support, especially for paying users, is nothing short of ridiculous.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:51 am
I would like you to implement a simple mail page. you have made it so busy thee is hardly any room for reading my mail. I am about ready to give up on my primary email address I have had since the early 90s and go elsewhere. It is just getting too confusing. My other complaint is if the new profile is so important why isn’t there a simple link on it to the public profile? There may be but it is so cluttered it is not obvious.
December 12th, 2008 at 5:21 am
The worst part of Yahoo mail – the ads that now appear ON TOP of your mail. C’mon Yahoo! When form (or bottom lines) beat out function, then we have a problem.
December 12th, 2008 at 6:17 am
What ever happened to just the plane ole’ simple Yahoo email. All this new “stuff” and, what I consider to be junk, is a mess and just too, well, for lack of a better word, busy. I just want my email to get in, send what I need, get out, and go about my work. Leave the “gadgets” and other gimmicks to the other “geek” sites. Leave Yahoo email alone and that’ll be just fine!!
December 12th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
What the heck? Why does it matter if we have Zimbra or not. Normal mail is fine.
December 12th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
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December 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Maybe the delay on Yahoo’s client-agnostic IMAP implementation is due to the fact that Yahoo’s planning to lay off 1,500 people (about 10% of its global workforce)….
Jerry Yang (Yahoo’s Current CEO) is also on the way out….
These events are probably playing havoc with current projects under development.
Anything to add on this Ryan?
December 14th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
what the heck?
December 14th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
agree so far with posted commends,as far as I can understand it.wanted download reg.yahoo-Mail,but seams impossible to find.The Reason is that yahoo messenger wants POP3 or what not (available) just to send a regular mail.
If anyone has a good idea let me know,Christian
thanks
December 14th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
looks like site is censored. In that case ,may i ask the smart censor to answer the question ???since he took of my address “kotzc”
December 14th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
good now he closed site, thanks
December 14th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
How about you stop pi**ing about with sh!t like this and fix something important – like the goddamn mail filters!
December 15th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Zimbra is pretty slow on my machine. It looks good by the way. But we dont want another memory hog continuously running on our machines 24 hours. If you enable pop for ordinary users also that will be great.
Thanks.
December 15th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Well there is no PowerPC application there and you are also lazy to note it. Did Yahoo just purchase a company which can’t code universal binary for PPC Macs? Very clever Yahoo…
What about ENABLING IMAP support for people PAYING to you?
December 15th, 2008 at 8:53 am
This incompatibility wouldn’t happen on GMail, because it lets you use a range of clients for IMAP, which are either Windows or PowerPC/Intel compatible as necessary:
Outlook Express (Windows)
Outlook 2003 (Windows)
Outlook 2007 (Windows)
Apple Mail 2
Apple Mail 3 (Leopard)
Windows Mail
Thunderbird 2
and others….
Yahoo can say that it has IMAP… as long as you use the Zimbra client… Have you ever heard of something so ridiculous? It would be like Google stating that it offers IMAP access for GMail, as long as you only use its Chrome browser to get it.
Yahoo thinks that it can do email better than the OS/Computer makers… Google doesn’t try to be something it’s not. And to think that we pay for this?
Set my email free Yahoo!…
December 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
what r yall talkin about im confused
December 17th, 2008 at 4:45 am
You know, I’ve had a Yahoo account since just about forever. I’m always patient with the speed of improvement, but my patience are wearing out.
I just watched my Yahoo mail page turn into a “social networking” page asking me if I want to follow people. Really? I don’t want my private e-mail page turned into twitter or facebook!
And yet … while Yahoo finds time to “twitterfy” my mail account I still can’t get IMAP support *OR* the ability to access my mail on the web and *also* forward it someplace else at the same time. (It’s still either/or).
I think I’m pulling the trigger and moving my account elsewhere. This really has pushed me over the edge. Sorry Yahoo. Trust me … with all of the web-sites and accounts I have tied to my e-mail address this *WILL* be a far more painful transition for me than I’d willingly like to do.
December 17th, 2008 at 7:04 am
I agree with Ellis 100%…
See? I’m not the only one who feels that Yahoo isn’t listening to its userbase…
December 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I’ll have to agree with the other posters….I’m not happy with Yahoo turning my mail into a social scene and not having IMAP is just rediculous. I, like others have waited patiently for Yahoo to show us that they are listening and willing to give us a great product but alas, they evidentally don’t care what we think or want. I have used Yahoo forever so it will not be easy but I will be looking for other email options also. Yahoo, you have really let me down. :(
January 6th, 2009 at 2:47 am
i agree with that!
December 18th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Offering Zimbra is not the same as offering IMAP. Please offer IMAP soon or I’ll be forced to go to Gmail.
December 18th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I am in complete agreement with KG and Scott K. Well said.
I’m seeing a whole lot of indifference from Yahoo on the feature requests that users want.
How on earth did “twitterfying” the mail screen take precedence over IMAP? Really, how did it?
December 26th, 2008 at 10:02 am
I would have to own a PC inorder to get the hang of any technological advancements. Otherwise, I’m subject to 20-30min. sessions of headaches with PC’s here at the unemployment office and other places like the library. Let me not act ungrateful.
December 28th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I want my other back I want to have the other one back!!!!
kelly
pleaaaaaseeeeeeeeee :P)
January 10th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
what in the world are you talking about a BACK!?
December 29th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
[...] Yahoo Mail Blog explains. "After you have installed or updated your Zimbra software, go to the Account Setup [...]
January 6th, 2009 at 2:46 am
this is hard for me to explain!:):):)
January 9th, 2009 at 8:36 am
I was just “timed-out” of my email account 4 times in the last 15 minutes. Why is this happening? It never happened before. I’ve always been able to email for hours w/o interruption. What’s going on?
January 9th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
8 March 2009
January 10th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
i don’t really get you like why are you retyping the date hen we saw it on the screen:8 March 2009
January 10th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I kind of don’t get it beause i didn’t read it cause i was so excited of just typing to someone that’s why.
January 12th, 2009 at 8:26 am
I really wait for each yahoo new products. And always they have really outdated info. And no reply in forum. Never accept feature mentioned id not available….
Yahoo! Calendar Beta (CalDav support) Hhaha…Doesn’t work at all. And about wrong information….
http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/calendar/yahoocalendar/sync/sync-05.html
Does not work at all. And no reply from yahoos…and support told me its not available for Intellisync :) Wow..thats funny…Where intellisync comes in picture for Lightenning and yahoo CalDav ?
Please if it does not work tell it public…i wasted lot of of time in just searching for this. As i have already switched to new one and added lots of stuff.
January 12th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
hi every one
January 13th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Yahoo mail is only good as a ‘Spam Catcher’. Why would someone have multiple accounts
January 14th, 2009 at 5:16 am
I am new here and still trying to find my way around. Wish me the best, as I’m from the west.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:49 am
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February 1st, 2009 at 7:34 am
I was sad to see that my “to dos” aren’t syncing. This would be really nice especially since the current layout in yahoo doesn’t really make it possible to print, or copy and paste the to do list, so there is no real way to have any version of it offline… which in my opinion is crucial for any to do list. Anyway, the calendar and contacts syncing features are great! Keep up the good work!
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
It would be nice if OpenOffice Writer was used for Zimbra and Yahoo email creation and reading.
February 17th, 2009 at 8:45 am
well hi and how are you doing i am from idaho falls id
February 26th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
i think this is great! i hope there is a triage feature added and a gantt chart feather as well. add one could extend the usage of these functions into something on the level of professional project management (google is yet to do this). i also hope that a functional widget is provided for my yahoo(such understated potential, sigh*). i hope this becomes an off line add on for zimbra also.
February 26th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
oops, i thought this was the calender beta page…. never mind that minions!
i find you attempts at zimbra most acceptable. as your resident sith lord, i command you to carry on.
March 10th, 2009 at 7:11 am
I echo all the comments on IMAP. I’ve been a Yahoo email user since the very beginning and a Mail Plus subscriber for five years. I’d really hate to leave Yahoo but they are taking liberties over IMAP.
I spoke with one of their execs at a conference and he privately told me they don’t want to implement it because people would then not use their web mail and be exposed to their ads. What a cynical, exploitative view of things.
As for the zimbra client – it’s complete rubbish. It has continuous sync problems – want proof? just look at their support forums.. page after page of error reports
Yahoo.. please, wake up and join the 21st Century and offer your loyal customers what they want – or they will continue deserting you for your competitors