Zimbra is an Ajax-based Free Cross Platform Enterprise Email Collaboration Software that integrates email, contacts, shared calendar, instant message, documents with sharing capabilities, advanced search and VoIP into a browser-based interface. The free enterprise email software is cross platform and is available for several distributions of Linux® and Mac OS® X and uses industry standard protocols.

The Free Enterprise Email Software comes bundled with third-party softwares which are installed as a part of the installation process. The main components are – Apache Tomcat, the web application server that Zimbra software runs in, postfix, an open source message transfer agent (MTA) that routes mail messages to the appropriate Zimbra server, OpenLDAP software, an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that provides user authentication, MySQL database software, Lucene, an open-source full featured text index and search engine and Verity, a third-party source that converts certain attachment file types to HTML.

The Anti-virus and anti-spam open source components include the ClamAV, an anti-virus scanner that protects against malicious files, SpamAssassin and DSPAM, a mail filters that attempt to identify spam, Amavisd-new, this actually interfaces between the MTA and one or more content checkers and James/Sieve filtering, used to create filters for email.

The Benefits of this Open Source Email Collaboration Software definitely would be; that, it provides better overall usability of Web 2.0 (conversation view, tags, Zimlets), plus the web and desktop experience are now the same. You can switch from online to offline mode seamlessly and automatically, when online you are immune to hiccups and interruptions caused by server latency. Faster search, better rich mail rendering, and a self-organizing inbox which is surely more adept at handling larger email volumes than traditional clients. Then there is the significantly reduced administration overhead managing and maintaining local files,they are synced to the Zimbra Server where they can be safeguarded.

The Next Generation Desktop Collaboration Software is designed, to be installed on a dedicated server with no other applications. Thus, the installer includes all the necessary components and will install tested versions of the softwares listed above. Using open source software allows the free enterprise email software to concentrate on improving existing software instead of rewriting software that has already been written.

If you are an individual or an end users then, you can also try the Free Desktop Email Collaboration Software client ‘Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop.” This can be compared to the others in its categories like the Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook, and combines the best qualities of all these email clients. In addition it will manage all your emails, contacts, calendar, files and documents, works with any POP / IMAP email account, automatically syncs Zimbra, Yahoo! and Google email, contacts, and calendars and like the others its free too!

This Free Next Generation Desktop Collaboration Software is one of the best, open source browser-based enterprise email collaboration software client available today. The wealthy features that makes the Free Enterprise Desktop Collaboration Software so loved by all would, surely be able to strike a chord with you too!

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