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OTA Sync with Zimbra now available for the 3G iPhone

Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Aug 30, 2008 2:48 pm 7 comments
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Zimbra, an open source messaging and collaboration suite, announced this week the availability of Zimbra Mobile for the iPhone 3G. Zimbra users sporting the latest iPhone have enjoyed full two-way OTA synchronization of email, calendars, and contacts as well as a photo sync feature that allows photos associated with iPhone contacts to sync with the Zimbra Address book. New features added to this latest release include improved push email performance and OTA syncing with multiple calendars and address books. Very cool for you iPhone 3G/Zimbra users if you haven’t taken the plunge with MobileMe or Exchange.

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  1. On Aug 30, 2008 @ 5:47 pm, bonesb Said:

    I was just checking this out this morning - anybody tried it out or are currently using a third-party solution like 01.com?

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  2. On Aug 30, 2008 @ 5:54 pm, Kall Said:

    So is this a free type of Exchange? Can you have it wirelessly sync calendar and everything with a Blackberry, Palm, etc… device?

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  3. On Aug 30, 2008 @ 6:44 pm, Kelly Hodgkins Said:

    Zimbra is open source alternative to Exchange. It uses activesync so you can OTA sync with Windows Mobile and presumably the iphone (since it now supports activesync) very easily. It also syncs with Palm, Blackberry and the Nokia eSeries. Some devices are supported natively, some use a third party app like NotifyLink to handle the syncing. Zimbra has done a lot in the past year or so in adding syncing support natively.

    I have only used a WinMo device with Zimbra so I cant comment on how well the iPhone works. The WinMo syncing worked great!

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  4. On Aug 30, 2008 @ 7:03 pm, Dahlia Said:

    We’ve been using http://www.01.com/ for more than a year. They’ve been very supportive since they migrated us over, and Zimbra has improved markedly. The iPhone and native BES support are big new improvements.

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  5. On Aug 30, 2008 @ 8:12 pm, Scoopster Said:

    Just FYI - Yahoo bought Zimbra a while back and runs it fairly separately from the main Yahoo. Zimbra is the company behind the software (the exchange competitor). You still need a hosting provider to run their software and push the email out to you — you can find their hosting partners on their website.

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  6. On Aug 30, 2008 @ 8:30 pm, kelly Said:

    yahoo has done a good job of just leaving Zimbra alone and letting it continue its development without trying to lock it down or change it to suit only yahoo’s need.

    if you are up for it, you can download and run the open source edition on your own server.I myself selected to go the hosted route and pay a hosting provider.A lot of big companies choose the commercial version of Zimbra for their email solution as well…

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  7. On Sep 1, 2008 @ 2:08 am, Hammer Said:

    So, how is this different from what I’ve been using with Zimbra’s network edition? I mean, I connect to my work’s Zimbra server via iPhone’s MS Exchange email setup. Zimbra network edition acts like an exchange server. This OTA sync function via iPhone was blogged on the Zimbra site back in July 2008. Here’s the link to he blog: http://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2008/07/zimbra-mobile-for-iphone.html

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