Comments on: Practically Replacing Microsoft Exchange Server – A 3 Part Series – 2 of 3 – Zimbra Collaboration Suite

By: Zotaff

Zotaff — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:16:10 +0000

Brad,
I was confused with a question of license and client. In accordance with information from site this solution can be accessed from any devices and there are some zimbra web clients.
I didn’t find any info about supporting Android devices. I am looking the solution for iphone, blackberry, j2me, android for one of mobile projects.
Can you recommend smth?

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By: Gray Rothkopf

Gray Rothkopf — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:45:54 +0000

Brad,

We have an overview of the BES, how it works, in our public Zimbra FAQs. No software is needed on the Blackberry devices themselves.

http://faqs.01.com/zimbra/questions/143/How+does+the+BES%7B47%7DBlackberry+service+work%3F

By: brad

brad — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:08:33 +0000

Sharon: The article above does mention that BlackBerry is handled via a BES extension and that the Outlook connector is a plugin

And thanks for the correction on Zimbra Mobile being true ActiveSync. That’s interesting / good to know! I’ll update the relevant articles shortly.

By: Sharon Byrnes

Sharon Byrnes — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:05:44 +0000

Brad, thanks! I actually just got off the phone with a Zimbra sales person.

Zimbra Mobile is not a client. It’s a license that you add to enable ActiveSync, as well as the Zimbra BES integration you can get if you add the Blackberry Connector to your Exchange BES. No client on the mobile devices at all, all just native sync.

The Outlook connector is something added to outlook, just like the isync connector you add to the Mac to allow desktop sync.

By: brad

brad — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:59:33 +0000

Sharon: There are official software clients for Outlook, PalmOS, Windows Mobile and Blackberry provided by Zimbra. More information can be found at:

http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra_mobile.html
Zimbra Mobile

http://www.zimbra.com/products/mobile_blackberry.html
Zimbra Mobile for BlackBerry

http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop_compatibility.html
Zimbra Connector for Outlook

By: Sharon Byrnes

Sharon Byrnes — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:23:30 +0000

You wrote, “support for PalmOS and Windows Mobile smartphones via an installable application”. I haven’t noticed that, although Zimbra does directly support ActiveSync for Windows Mobile and Palm, and the iPhone w/o any installable software… I looked around, and found reference to a J2ME client, is that what you meant?