End-user benefits include:
- Browser based AJAX client with search, shared calendar and mail that is integrated with contacts and calendar.
- Support for Outlook, iCal, App.Mail, contacts and offline mode.
- Support of Apple, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
Administrator Benefits:
- Online move, back-up, and recovery of individual or a group of mailboxes.
- Compatibility with existing LDAP directories.
- Native hierarchical storage management and clustering.
- Web services integration with existing enterprise applications.
- Integrated anti-spam and anti-virus.
ZCS Administration and General Features
- Extension blocking is now done at both the Postfix header level and at the Amavis level which scans embedded archives for blocked extensions (Bug 30889)
- zimbraSmtpHostname is now fault tolerant. (Bug 36173)
- The admin can set the number of items to display per page on ZWC to 250, 500, 100 or more. COS/Account attributes zimbraMaxMailItemsPerPage, zimbraMaxContactsPerPage, zimbraMaxVoiceItemsPerPage control the numbers(Bug 7411)
- Configuring Calendar Resources from the admin console has been enhanced to improve the user experience, including the ability to set a scheduling policy (Bug 12414)
- As part of the Logger service over-haul for 6.0
- Logger service is no longer available. (Bug 24199)
- There is a new tab in Server Statistics that include advanced graphing options. Also the stock graphs for disk/mta/etc. are more dynamic. (Bug 34938)
- An additional log file /var/log/zimbra-stats.log is automatically added via sysloc.conf and the local logging facility. This is used to aggregate Zimbra stats for the purpose of the new zimbra-logger. Data includes all the existing zmstats data plus the previous zimbra-logger data. (Bug 36915)
Zimbra Web Client Features
Tasks. You can now select to view tasks by status (Not started, Completed, In progress, Waiting on someone else, and Deferred) Bug 16005
Tasks. You can sync tasks from an iCal remote service. When you create a new task, check Synchronize tasks from the remote service and add the URL. (Bug 17907)
Calendar. The attendee can select from a drop down menu to not notify the creator when they accept, decline, to tentatively accept a meeting. (Bug 38179)
Search. If you know where to search for an item, you can do a quick search by entering one of the search keywords followed by a colon (tag:) in the search field. The keywords are tag, in, under, is, has, type, attachment. (Bug 37737)
When printing messages, a Font size link displays on the page to be printed. You can increase or decrease the size of the text before you print. (Bug 17228)
In the Forward a copy to Mail Preference field, users can specify more than one address to use. They enter a comma to separate the email addresses (Bug 11299)
Added the ability to sort by message size (Bug 10445)
Standard Client. HTML signatures are now supported in the standard ZWC. (Bug 28314)
Standard Client. The GAL can now be searched from the Standard Client. (Bug 27615)
Standard Client. When creating a meeting, the resources are now displayed on the Add Attendees page. (Bug 37952)
