Common questions and answers

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Common questions and answers

How do you define a "mailbox license"? Is that one person?

A mailbox license is an account with a physical email inbox and typically belongs to one person.
It is possible to have an account set up for a virtual "role" within your organization that may not be staffed by an individual. So, to decide how many licenses you want to purchase the next question becomes when do you need a new account versus just using an alias or distribution list (which are not considered new accounts).

First some definitions: Exchange alternative for Linux

* Account: "Jane@work.com", she has a mailbox, calendar, documents, quota, etc.
* Alias: She can also be "jane.smith@work.com" or even "info@work.com".
o The alias is unique to this account
o Jane could receive email sent to info@work.com and would reply back as "jane@work.com"
o All the mail sent to the alias lives in her mailbox (if she leaves the mail archive for "info" would be lost)
* Distribution List: A group of accounts / aliases

To have a permanent role in your organization for "info@work.com" that doesn't disappear if Jane moves you will want a new account. This way others can log in to check the email, you will have an archive, you can reply back to messages as "info", plus Jane won't all the "info@work.com" counting against quota.

How much storage does each Zimbra account come with?

If you are installing ZCS on premise then storage is only limited by how much physical storage space you wish to allocate to each account (eg it can be unlimited, 10GB, 2GB, etc) depending on hardware constraints. The Administration Console allows your IT team to easily set up "Class of Service" for the accounts.

If you wish to purchase a Zimbra account from us then the available size will be available during sign up. We offer various mailbox sizes, from 1GB up to 100GB. You can customize your package in the first instance or later by upgrading to the required package size.

What phones are supported by Zimbra Mobile?

* All Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices
* Symbian S60 and S80 devices like the Nokia E-Series, Palm devices like the Treo 700P sync natively with Zimbra. (Some require additional 3rd party plugins)
* Blackberry is supported through a third party partner. Multilingual support on Zibra
Ofcourse you can sync your mobile any time with the distributed tools of your phone like Microsoft ActiveSync.

What are the languages supported by Zibra?

The following languages are officially localized and ship with ZCS: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English (UK, AU, US), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Ofcourse you can read emails in any character set like Greek etc.

Posted on: 11/03/2010

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