it doesnt work properly with pop3 accounts. It is Beta for POP and IMAP.

The IMAP works ..but lot of issues in sync.

A quick search of their website also seems to indicate their Zimbra cloud hosted solution is “fully managed,” and provides support to the end-user, too (an option we chose for the first year with 01.com, even on our own, remotely maintained server). I have heard good things about Perceeva, among other Zimbra host partners, for a list visit Zimbra’s site: http://www.zimbra.com/partners/zimbra_hosting.html

My major issue with it is that it doesn’t seem to understand Gmail’s tags. It has its own tags, but it interprets Gmail tags as directories, and ends up with half a dozen copies of every email. As a result, it doesn’t handle ‘read’ vs ‘not read’ very wel, and I don’t even want to think about what happens when you try to move an email from one directory to another.

Plus, why aren’t Zimbra’s tags global across accounts? A tag created under one account doesn’t appear on another.

When a client of mine wants hosted, I always shoot them to http://www.specialai.com I’ve used 01.com before but I quite like the personal support you get from SpecialAI. One thing SpecialAI does that I don’t see from any other solution provider is a Fully Managed Zimbra product. This means that not only do they hosted your email, but they’ll provide unlimited administration of your user population plus they provide full help desk support for end users. This is something that most large businesses will definitely need should they decide to outsource email.

If you’re looking for a hosted Zimbra solution, let me encourage you to simply drop them a line. You’ll either find exactly what you’re looking for, or learn a whole lot more than you previously knew about Zimbra. Oh, did I mention that they give you direct contact with the engineer who actually works on your account! Only an in-house IT department can give you that type of service.

http://www.zioffice.com/plans.htm

http://www.smedia.info/zimbra-hosting-prices.asp

We’re looking at hosted Zimbra solutions for a small group — just two people — but we do need to share calendars, address books, etc.

I see your hosted Zimbra is $7/seat. Where are you getting yours service? How is it working?

Thanks!

GMail is where I learned to like the “conversation” view – but in Zimbra, I can toggle it back and forth with the “view” drop down, and drag emails around if I want to organize them. Also, Zimbra’s search indexes your attachments – MS Word, PDF, etc, and you can do one search that goes thru your contacts, calendar items and emails (with attachments), all at once.

GMail is just now adding a calendar… Of course, GMail is free, and my Zimbra account is $7.00 per month (pretty close to free.. 2 x latte at Starbucks!). But the main difference to me is this – for a personal email account, GMail is great.

But if you are trying to collaborate with other people, being able to look them up by name (partial match, etc), in the GAL (Global Address List), which everybody in your company shares (assuming your company uses Zimbra), makes this a business tool. I can share my calendar with the (2 other) people in my company, sync everything with Outlook (and I use a PocketPC phone, which then syncs with Outlook).

Anyway – I think it rocks – and am looking forward to seeing Zimlets that integrate with other tools, like accounting packages, etc. I’m not knocking GMail, but if you’re a company, you don’t want to use GMail as your company messaging system.

check out what others are saying.. http://www.adrianbradshaw.co.uk/?p=99

I am not sure if you have used gmail, but you can compare against gmail to see what I mean.

Some good third parties are Mailstreet and 4Smartphone and some even offer free trial offers.