Many may remember the morning of Tuesday, September 2, as a time when Gmail had an OOPS. How did you deal the Gmail failure? Do you have a backup plan for accessing your email if this happens again? The outage on the Gmail servers was a surprise to users and even the Gmail technical team.
According to the Gmail Blog, it was unexpected because their infrastructure runs on servers in multiple locations around the world. It was even reported that their server plan was recently updated to so that a crash such as that happened wouldn’t happen.
However it did happen and …read more

For those who use desktop software to manage their mail, many use Microsoft Outlook. If you have been looking for an alternative to Outlook, you might want to try Zimbra. Zimbra is a cross between desktop and web-enabled email/document/calendare management tool that was created by Yahoo. I recently tested Zimbra to see how I would like it versus Outlook and found the following things:

It’s web-like interface was easy to use
Setting up different email accounts was seamless
Importing Gmail email and calendar was intuitive to the program
Able to import many email account and keep them organized (don’t laugh but I tested it …read more