Recently my office moved over to Zimbra as our mail client. It’s a pretty robust feature filled program that I found I knew nothing about. For the past couple days I’ve been working on getting Zimbra running as well as my beloved Thunderbird. Here are a few tips for anyone out there new to Zimbra.

Importing Thunderbird Address Book Into Zimbra

1. First you’ll need to Dawn 5.4 Here

2. Open Dawn and go to File > Add > Add from Address Book

3. Choose an Application. Select Thunderbird on the left then choose your Address Book on the right then hit next.

4. After hitting next you should see a page like this. If you don’t hit the back button and choose another Address book until you see your contacts.

5. Now go to File > Save > Export Into Address Book

6. Choose Comma Separated Values (CSV) File. Click the browse button and give your CSV file a name you can remember ex: (mycontacts.csv)

7. Open Zimbra and choose Preferences

8. Select Address Book

9. Upload CSV File. Delete any empty entries and viola.

Adding RSS Feeds to Zimbra

Adding a feed to Zimbra is as easy as creating a folder. Just right click on the parent item of where you want the feed to be displayed and click “New Folder”.

If you want the feed folder to be displayed inside of the “Inbox” folder, then right click on “Inbox”. If you want it to be a “Top Level” folder (which means that it is along side the inbox), then right click on “Folders” located on the left hand side.

Change Zimbra Password

Preferences > General > Change Password

Add Custom Signature To Zimbra

Preferences > Signatures

Once you add a signature you need to save your current changes. Then click on the accounts tab and select your signature from the dropdown.

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I’ve been getting complaints that my messages were not coming through since I started using Thunderbird. What was happening is my replies were showing at the bottom of my emails.

I must have at some point set Thunderbird to reply messages to, “start my reply below the quote”. I’m not sure if I screwed up or this is the default, but below are directions on how to change this.

In the menu at the top of the screen in Thunderbird, go to

Tools  —> Account Settings —–> Composition & Addressing, in the Composition dialog box

Make sure that the check box for “Automatically quote the original message when relying then, Start my reply above the quote.

If you set up your Thunderbird like this it will place your reply at the top everytime.

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