Review: Zimbra Desktop

I pulled down the beta of Zimbra Desktop the other week and have been using it off and on. First the things I like about it:
1) group by conversation!!!!!
2) supports IMAP, POP3 & Zimbra accounts.
3) same look and feel as Zimbra web.
4) offline support.

I much prefer it for reading my email because like gmail it will pull my sent email and all replies together into a thread so that I can read things in context. This is the way all email should work. I also love the idea of being able to open zimbra desktop on my laptop, pull down my email, disconnect and read and work with it all. (I know almost all mail clients support this)

Next the cons:
1) no LDAP support. - How am I suppose to know who send my email too without my address book
2) Signature Bug- When I try to set a signature for my first email account it worked great. Once I added more then one account setting a signature came me a cryptic error message "error in identity {long GUID here}".
3) Useless error messages - this morning I opened it up and one of my accounts has a red icon. Hovering over the icon it said "error" but there was no way to see what the actual error was? Was it a comms error? as user/password error? what is wrong?

Overall: I think Zimbra desktop has the potential to be an outlook killer app, but defiantly not in its beta state, I re-evaluate when they release 1.0.

Firefox 3.0

So I have been using the Firefox 3.0 release candidates, and I'm loving it. The new location bar, which lets you search your bookmarks as fast as you type. This is awesome.

Also I accidentally clicked on favicon the other day and up popped a dialog with some information about who owns the site which I thought was a little annoying but cool. Then yesterday I clicked on it again, and then clicked the more info, and I was magically taken a tab in firefox where I could inspect each cookie I had from the website ans see/delete all saved passwords. I have been trying to do that for months since I reset my password and it "remembered" the old one.

I say let all set a world record and download firefox 3