news.cnet.com — Google is pretty fast-moving, as company cultures go, rolling out new products on a regular basis. And yet its popular Gmail service is only just now getting around to providing offline e-mail access, a feature that open-source Zimbra has had for nearly two years.
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clickmyfaceJan 29, 2009
Err, I just use mail clients? Gmail through mac mail, have all my mail from the last x years offline.
booyahbitchJan 29, 2009
It uses SpamAssassin.See this link.<a class="user" href="http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Improving_Anti-spam_system">http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Improving_A ...</a>
dacjamesJan 29, 2009
Most users don't give a rat's ass about the so-called features of an email application. Except in rare instances, why would anyone need offline access to email? When users choose software, they do so based on the quality of their experience performing the tasks they actually do day in and day out. Software nerds (myself included) like to talk about features but the average user does not care.So I suppose I agree with you. I use my email account for communicating and storing important data so reliability and usability will always trump feature set.
datagodJan 29, 2009
I had offline email support way back in the early nineties. It was called "email" back then. You used an email "client' to download and then read your email.
stonekeeperJan 29, 2009
If by "same tired stuff" you mean "robust, mature, tried and tested software" then yes, i agree. We use Zimbra everyday. It's awesome.
mightyupsetterJan 29, 2009
You are right - most people have no concept of using email whilst not online - in most people's real life it is not as issue as they are either connected (at home or wireless) or associate email with only being available when they are online.
Closed AccountJan 29, 2009
at the company I work for we still use outlook 2000 because we dont want to spend the money to upgrade to exchange. I have run into the 2g pst file size limit several times in the past 2 years.