Brian Fitzgerald
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12:31:31 pm on February 21, 2011 | # |
While the reaction to Zimbra has been largely positive, you have had some great ideas as to how it could be improved. Lucky for us, the next big improvement to Zimbra has just landed and we intend to put it in place on the Sunday morning leading into spring break—March 20th. Zimbra 7 introduces many features that you have been asking for in our first month of using it and while it looks a little different, you will find that that it is cosmetically very similar to the Zimbra that we have come to love (you can see some pictures of Zimbra 7 here). Here are a few things to expect in Zimbra 7 when it launches in a month:Rescue Your Trash. No Garbage Truck Chasing Required!
We’ve almost all been there. You delete a message and almost out of habit you empty the trash, but somewhere between the moment your brain tells your finger to click “empty trash” and your digit carries out the order you realize you have something in there that shouldn’t be—but it’s too late. You can picture the file’s bits being scattered in the digital wind.
Fear no more! Zimbra 7 features an ability to restore files from your emptied garbage without so much as a call to the help desk.
Global Address Search
Sometimes you just want to look up somebody’s email address! Zimbra 7 makes this easy with a new “Global Address Search” that is always available whether you are looking at your mail or calendar. Start typing a first or last name and it will start giving you matches from across the district.
Email and Text Message Event Reminders
Our current version of Zimbra notifies you of upcoming events in one of two ways. If you are logged into Zimbra, it will display a popup window with the alert or if you have synced a device with it that device will likely notify you. These are certainly handy, but more options would be nice and Zimbra 7 delivers. Similar to Sun Calendar, Zimbra 7 will now deliver email reminders to you prior to each event if you desire. Z7 can also be configured to text message you if you prefer being notified that way. If you miss an event that you scheduled with Zimbra 7 it shouldn’t be for lack of a notification 🙂
Scheduling Wizard
We aren’t all event schedulers, but for those that do it often this is a huge deal. Zimbra 7 has cleaned up and souped up the scheduling interface making it easier to see who is available when and to zero in on a time that everybody will be able to participate.
Calendar Invite Preview
Sometimes you get an invite to an invite and your first instinct is to go look at your calendar to see what the rest of your day looks like. Zimbra 7 anticipates this and provides a calendar view for you right next to any message that is an invitation. Without leaving your message view you can read the invite, see how it works for you and respond.
Schedule Mail Delivery
Have an announcement or other message that can’t go out until a specific day and time? Zimbra 7 lets you schedule messages to be sent when you are ready for them to be sent.
Quickly Copy Existing Meetings
Sometimes its handy to be able to make a copy of a meeting already on your calendar. It’s perhaps not a repeating event, yet you need to set up something in the same room with the same people as something that’s already on your calendar. Zimbra 7 lets you copy a meeting on your calendar to create a new one.
Undo
How many times have you longed for the Undo command that you used to use in Thunderbird? Z7 provides an Undo link at the top of the page to Undo the last thing that you did – yay!
Change The Default Size of Printed Text
We have had many-a-mention of how little the print font is out of Zimbra. Z7 provides you a preference where you can set the font size that Zimbra should use when printing.