Zimbra Collaboration Suite icon
Zimbra Collaboration Suite icon

Zimbra Collaboration Suite

 35 likes

Zimbra Collaboration is an open, secure collaboration tool for email, calendaring, tasks and more. With the most innovative web application available today, Zimbra boosts the productivity of users on any desktop and dramatically reduces TCO compared to legacy platform vendors.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite screenshot 1

License model

  • FreemiumOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Linux  server
  • Online  client
  • Self-Hosted
2 / 5 Avg rating (1)
35likes
3comments
0news articles

Features

Suggest and vote on features
  1.  Real time collaboration
  2.  ActiveSync
  3. Microsoft Active Directory icon  Active Directory integration
  4.  Mail Server
  5.  Team Collaboration

 Tags

  • groupware
  • collaboration

Zimbra Collaboration Suite News & Activities

Highlights All activities

Recent News

No news, maybe you know any news worth sharing?
Share a News Tip

Recent activities

Show all activities

Zimbra Collaboration Suite information

  • Developed by

    US flagZimbra
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription that costs $0 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Alternatives

    44 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Zimbra Collaboration Suite, and it has gotten 35 likes

Zimbra Collaboration Suite was added to AlternativeTo by greenseeker on Aug 11, 2010 and this page was last updated Feb 6, 2025. Zimbra Collaboration Suite is sometimes referred to as Zimbra Collaboration.

Comments and Reviews

   
 Post comment/review
Top Negative Comment
Pierre-Yves Landuré
Sep 1, 2023
0

Zimbra is a company-oriented webmail with contacts manager, calendar, chat, ... Users find it a good alternative to Microsoft Outlook. For administrators, it's a pain.

By its conception, Zimbra is a security risk: all processes run with the "zimbra" system user. The administration Web UI is run by the same java process that provide the Webmail (a Java app hosted by Tomcat), on a different port. All configuration files are owned by the "zimbra" user. If the Web UI is breached, all Zimbra config can be edited.

The configuration is complex, proprietary and unclear. The learning curve is steep, and stay steep even with a good knowledge of used open source software (postfix, sldapd, tomcat, amavis, ...).

Zimbra doesn't follow semantic versioning. Path numbering doesn't reflect breaking changes. Some patches may break the working configuration.

If a webmail provides the same functionalities as Zimbra without its administration Web UI, choose this webmail. Zimbra ease of administration is a false promise that creates more problems than it solves.

Zimbra team does good work, but from the start, its architecture is the issue. In 15 years, this hasn't changed.

Guest
Jan 10, 2025
0

The information here is outdated. Zimbra is not freemium/opensource

douglaswendelboe
Jan 6, 2018
-4

It looks to be expensive as no price is listed. You must submit a request for a quote. Didn't look any further into Zimbra.

Erik Alt
Oct 2, 2019

I have to say this. Pricing is more then reasonable. I am currently testing Zimbra and some alternatives and i must say Zimbra is by far the cheapest with all functions included.

lgwhitlock
Feb 5, 2022

The Open Source Edition is free for you to run on your own server whether on site or hosted.

What is Zimbra Collaboration Suite?

Zimbra Collaboration is an open, secure collaboration tool for email, calendaring, tasks and more. With the most innovative web application available today, Zimbra boosts the productivity of users on any desktop and dramatically reduces TCO compared to legacy platform vendors.

Other key advantages include advanced compatibility with existing desktop email clients, over-the-air sync to smartphones (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry) as well as better server scalability and more efficient administration.

Zimbra provides open source email and calendar groupware software, Zimbra is a popular choice for Linux and Mac OS X email servers and supports SaaS deployment, appliances and virtualization platforms.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite Videos