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Zimbra, Yahoo’s finally launched the version3 of its open source desktop mail client and is up and going for a competition with its rivals, namely, Outlook, Mozilla, Thunderbird etc. Built on Mozilla Prism, the client is available for Windows, Mac and Linux based machines, as reported by Michael Arrington. We had earlier reviewed Zimbra at Startup Meme
The client weighs in 40 MB of storage space (pretty much larger than Thunderbird) and offers sleek features, much of those that we miss in Outlook and Thunderbird and enabling the users to access multiple accounts form those at Yahoo, Zimbra or any other account that is Pop/AMAP enabled.
The biggest advantage of using Zimbra is the speed of operation with more features that let you tag items, collapse conversation and simultaneously perform both Web and local searches. Zimbra co-founder and Yahoo VP, Satish Dharmaraj
Zimbra is focused on creating communication and collaboration solutions that ease the pain points of traditional e-mail, and switching between multiple e-mail accounts is one of the communication headaches that users encounter on a daily basis. With Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, we have taken our world-class collaboration suite and made it available for everyone for use anywhere, anytime, with any email account.
The desktop Zimbra form Yahoo, Zimbra provides the same access as Zimbra and introducing more features to make desktop based mail clients a more close-up of what the users experience on the web-applications. A few of those features include:
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Zimbra Documents: enables users to make use of document and spreadsheet programs and embed images and various other objects into them.
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Zimbra Briefcase: Enables users to upload, store and access files over various format (spreadsheets, docs etc), instead of keeping them all tied up as email attachments.
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Zimbra Tasks: an efficient management tool that enables users to keep track with to-do lists and monitor various proceedings from due dates to progress and priority of a task taken up.
someone needs to make something like that opensource for iphone apps.