[Leaplist] Zimbra crazy awesome

[Dan Cherry]

> Jason Boxman wrote:
<snip>
> My quest for a universal address book, calendar, and tasks continue.
> Thunderbird with Lightning comes pretty close.  I'm hoping Kontact in
> KDE 4.1 has better support for WebDAV so I can hackily use the CALDAV
> store Lightning uses natively just fine.  In 3.5.9 it forgets WebDAV
> based calendar events.
I've got webDAV working reliably with KDE 4.2.2 (although I don't use 
lightning).  Keeping calendar and contacts in imap mailboxes has been very 
stable - kow, but notes have had to go to opera along with bookmarks.  I'll 
have to look a lightning some day, and possibly some other webDAV apps.
>
> Maybe I should write a Thunderbird plugin that allows tagging, persisted
> remotely with a CouchDB server or something.
>
> Meh.
>
> > 1) Large resource requirements, predominately due to Java components
> > - 250M overhead on my XP box
> > - 300M+ on my Linux box
> > 2) No TLS support (SSL works, but requires legacy port open on server)
> > 3) I can't sort my mail most recent at the bottom; it paginates your mail
> > 4) Drafts are always 'unread' for ZCS accounts (not vanilla IMAP)
> > - I tend to use my drafts as a dumping ground for files or notes
> > - The Briefcase feature in Zimbra likely eliminates that necessity
> > 5) Doesn't understand Courier's usage of '.INBOX' as IMAP root
> > - Only matters on Courier for ZD's IMAP support
> > - Results in dumb looking nesting under 'Inbox' of all subfolders
> > - Irrelevant for native ZCS accounts, of course
> > 6) Can't send to mailing lists by middle clicking on ml folder
> > - Cute kmail feature I shall miss
> > 7) I can't manually expire messages via cron script for ZCS accounts
> > - find + xargs + rm

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