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I use gmail at home, zimbra at work.

Advantages of Zimbra:

-Group calendaring

-Folders (having to subscribe to a bunch of FOSS email lists at work I appreciate just filling away the mailing lists into a folder for later, way better than Gmail's way with the tags and searching and stuff)

Advantage of Gmail:

-Better search of archived mail

Zimbra seems to have some more quirks than gmail that are getting better. They both have decent iPhone interfaces. I wouldn't give up Gmail for Zimbra at home, but for work Zimbra does the job equal or better than Gmail.

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> having to subscribe to a bunch of FOSS email lists at work I appreciate just filling away the mailing lists into a folder for later, way better than Gmail's way with the tags and searching and stuff

Sorry. I feel like I'm bringing up VIM vs. Emacs or something here, but please explain how folders are in any way different from tags and filters.

Why can't you just create a filter that tags your FOSS stuff and then auto-archives it?

Tags can't be nested.

In GMail, a simple slash will nest the tags if you're accessing it from an IMAP client. Also, if you start the tag it'll show up as a subfolder of your inbox. Filtering mailing lists to INBOX/ml/foo, INBOX/ml/bar and auto-archiving works quite well for me.

Couldn't you use Google Calendar for group calendaring? Just have everybody add the mygroup@gmail.com calendar as an overlay.

And folders are just a degenerate case of labels, where each message can only have one label. You can set up a filter to "label as emacs-devel and archive", and watch the unread count in the labels box. Just as easy as folders, though it's harder to have a "favorites" list like in Outlook.

Not exactly. Zimbra also keeps track of when people are busy and when rooms are available and things like that (in addition to supporting push email on iPhones).

As another commenter pointed out, it's more of an Exchange replacement than a Google Apps replacement.

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