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Yahoo!'s Zimbra offers offline access to e-mail

Many feel that their hands were tied behind their back when you want to log into their e-mail accounts, but they do not have access to the Internet. Things are about to change, thanks to Yahoo! technology, which was announced today.

Zimbra, for now available in beta, allows users to access Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail, without being connected to the Internet. Two Internet protocols, mail and Internet Protocol Message Access Protocol, is used to enable people to have access to three e-mail accounts from different suppliers at the same time.

"Zimbra is focused on the creation and communication solutions to alleviate the pain points of traditional e-mail, and switching between different e-mail accounts is one of the communication headaches that users encounter on a daily basis," says Satish Dharmaraj, Zimbra cooperation -- Founder and Yahoo! Vice President. "With Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop, who have taken our world-class cooperation and make the apartment available to anyone for use anywhere, anytime, with every e-mail account." he added.

The possibility of offline access to what they represented, until now, Internet applications doubled from several new features that bears Zimbra. Search tools, calendars and desktop graphics based on content that is available only on the Internet, are some of them.

A Zimbra document, which gives users the opportunity to integrate photos and other content of documents and spreadsheets, is another feature, announced by Yahoo! It is accompanied by Zimbra Briefcase, a tool that allows the organization to upload and store the various documents that have been held until now, in applications of electronic mail. Also, a desktop Briefcase can be both online and offline. Zimbra tasks as a set of functions, is a tool that allows monitoring of data, for example, do lists, deadlines, priorities, the rate at which the task is fulfilled, and others.

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