How to use Zimbra Collaboration Suite for email at CCIS

Very recently created accounts at CCIS have their email handled by Zimbra Collaboration Suite (informally “Zimbra”, although that’s really the name of the company). In addition to email, this software handles calendaring and document sharing.

Soon we will have a detailed HOWTO document here, but in the meantime, the short version is that you can go to

https://zimbra.ccs.neu.edu/

(note https) and log in with your CCIS login name and password, and you will get Zimbra’s quite good webmail client.

You can also read your mail through the Zimbra Collaboration Suite server with a standard mail client using the IMAP protocol, and send it with SMTP, but we don’t have detailed documentation written for that yet. (If you want to try this in the meantime, the server name is zimbra.ccs.neu.edu for both protocols.)

Setting up Email Clients to access Zimbra

Mozilla Thunderbird

Sources of further information

• http://www.zimbra.com/ is the company that produces the Zimbra Collaboration Suite.
• The Zimbra server has online documentation at https://zimbra.ccs.neu.edu/zimbra/help/Zimbra_User_Help.htm (available via the help tab with the question mark icon when you’re logged into Zimbra).
  

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Last modified 2007.08.30 by jay.