Configuring Zimbra as the default mail client mailto: function when using ubuntu linux

Posted by Adrian on Jul 29, 2009 in Open Source | 0 comments This script from Dan at Zomgee is excellent, and allows you to compile your own XPI firefox addon in under 2 minutes (using nothing more than a basic text editor and your mailserver domain name) that makes all mailto: links open up in Zimbra, not evolution of similar.  Its easy and works for me using Zimbra client on an ubuntu 9.04 linux machine with Firefox 3.0.12.  Nice work...
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RIM Blackberry needs to support Zimbra

Posted by Adrian on Jul 7, 2009 in Open Source | 1 comment We are recruiting a new member to our team and they have asked for a blackberry as their email device of choice, something we have never used before in house.  Having looked into this, it seems like a real can of worms. What I would expect is that there is an easy way of connecting a zimbra server to a blackberry device using a protocol similar to IMAP or the nokia exchange server that I use on...
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Multiple Accounts using a single Alias in Zimbra

Posted by rich on Mar 30, 2009 in coding | 0 comments A little back end tweak here to allow multiple Zimbra email accounts to use a single alias. Normally, you can only assign an alias to one single user, otherwise you are presented with a similar error: Cannot add alias: Account user@domain already has alias aliasuser@domain We needed to be able to allow two user accounts to send emails from the same account (alias); there may be other ways to do...
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