Zimbra Mail and other compatibilities posted by Anonymous Poster in Technical Support
March 15, 2008
I read about the upcoming change to Zimbra Collaboration Suite (http://www.zimbra.com/products/) in the other forum (http://my.brandeis.edu/groups/ltsnews/item?news_item_id=13233). This mostly concerns the client (interface) and not the "guts" of the e-mail system, right?
After the switchover, will e-mail still be accessible via Pine? If some of us are too set in our ways (not necessarily to be read "doddering idiots incapable of change" or "too busy with other projects to spend more time learning yet another new piece of software" or a whole slew of other descriptions that could fill a book or a blog) will it still be compatible with Netscape Mail, Thunderbird, good old Webmail (Horde) and so on?
pine can be used with zimbra posted by Steven Karel in Technical Support
March 15, 2008
I can't speak to LTS's plans for the shell servers, but you will still be able, one way or another, to use pine. Zimbra provides an IMAP server, pine is an IMAP client. I've run a test install of Zimbra and it worked with all the IMAP clients I tested it with.
As of this morning, I've tested Zimbra with the copy of pine on the UNet shell servers, and it seems to work as expected.
other imap and web clients. posted by Steven Karel in Technical Support
March 16, 2008
Explicitly answering the rest of the question...
Thunderbird or any other IMAP client should continue to work. I have tested with OS X Mail.app and Thunderbird, they work as expected.
Horde will be dropped, I should think -- the Zimbra web client is much much nicer than the one we are currently using.
pine after zimbra move posted by Sara D Kunz in Technical Support
March 16, 2008
I have moved to zimbra and logged into urchin.unet today. It worked just as it did before. The messages do not appear to have been marked as read even though I already read them via imap or the webinterface. This may be a function of the current setup
One nice feature of the zimbra web interface is that you can have multiple signature files and select between them.
It is fast.
It is easy to move messages from one folder to another.
Currently I am playing around with the addressbook having imported a csv file to see what results.
more on zimbra posted by Sara D Kunz in Technical Support
March 16, 2008
Steven pointed out to me that I was not actually looking at the zimbra mail server with pine. In this test period one needs to modify the .pinerc file.
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