With applications like Zimba Desktop, that receives its name thanks to a song by Talking Heads, we can verify the grandeur of
free software, that is capable of managing that with the joint effort of anonymous people we can enjoy
great quality free applications.
Zimbra Desktop started as a project betwen three friends that thought up the idea of creating their own application:
an electronic mail manager. After receiving meany colaborations from other users and improving the application, the result was so good that in September 2007 it was bought by
Yahoo!.
Zimbra Desktop is a desktop email manager so complete that it is capable of being a direct rival to the products designed by
Microsoft: Outlook and Exchange. It can be used both as mail client and server, and it includes bothe calendar and organizer functions.
It allows the user to configure POP accounts from
Google Mail, Hotmail and
AOL, and in general, it is compatible with any other mail service that has
POP/IMAP support. But, maybe the major achievement of Zimba Desktop has been to manage
offline access to
Yahoo! mail, for both paying and
free accounts.
Manage all your mail accounts from your desktop and revise your
Yahoo! mail
offline with
Zimbra Desktop.