Tips & Helpful Information Archive

Free XMission Zimbra Training Seminar


Everyone likes a freebie!

I’m sure you have been hearing about this Zimbra email product that XMission includes with our web hosting suite and how great it is for business use.

Now what do you do if your business needs to share calendars, documents, address books, tasks, email, and more? What if you have a crusty [...]

SQLite Firefox plugin


Over in XMission Research and Development we’ve been finding ouselves having a lot of conversations about overengineered databases. Sure, it’s nice to have fully relational databases and be able to store procedures and do subselects, but how often do developers really need these sorts of features?

Enter lightweight databases like SQLite. As the home page says, [...]

Zimbra Tip: Contacts and Address Book management


This week’s Zimbra Tip is about Contacts and Address Book management. These tips are easy to understand and implement. The great news is that these tips apply to all 3 service levels of the XMission Zimbra suite.

Viewing Contacts in Address book

To access Contacts, click on the Address Book pane in the web interface or Zimbra [...]

Zimbra Tip: Calendar Sharing


This week we will cover sharing Calendars using the www interface the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Calendars and calendar sharing are available to XMission’s Standard and Premium Zimbra accounts.

XMission’s Zimbra Suite makes it easy to share your calendar: simply right click on the calendar you want to share and click on “Share Calendar”.

The “Share Properties” pane, [...]

Zimbra Tips: Drag and drop Zimlet


This week I have another great XMission Zimbra discovery to share with you! This tip has to do with enhancing the drag-and-drop capabilities built into the Zimbra web interface when using the Firefox browser.

Our mighty email administrator, Joaquin, has added a great Zimlet to all XMission’s Standard and Premium Zimbra configurations. (XMission’s Base product does [...]

Zimbra Tips: Use Briefcase as Remote Drive


I don’t know about you but there are times when I think to myself, “Aww man… I really need that file on my office machine!” Generally it means an out-of-the-way trip to the office to fire up my machine and get the file. With Zimbra I found a solution. Now, when I think I may [...]

Zimbra Tips: Keyboard shortcuts


What is Zimbra? I have to say that Zimbra is such a fantastic mix of collaboration tools that it is difficult to explain in only a few words.

If I had to tell you what Zimbra is to me, I would say “life changing.” Out of the countless mail clients I have used throughout the years [...]

Getting Your PS3 Online


So, you’d like to snipe a few fellow gamers in a game of Metal Gear Solid Online but there’s just one problem: your PS3 isn’t connected to the network.  Fear not, for I shall walk you through the valley of the shadow of no internet connection and get you started on the path to a [...]

Getting Phished?


Recently, a few dozen of our subscribers received an email claiming to be from XMission that urged them to email their password. This fraudulent, “phishing” email did not come from XMission; unfortunately, it looked authentic enough that a few customers responded.

Obviously, we find emails like this incredibly frustrating. Spam has cost us tremendously in [...]

Worried about Identity Theft?


The FTC’s national education campaign – AvoID Theft: Deter, Detect, Defend – aims to empower consumers to protect themselves against identity theft and to minimize the damage it can cause.

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/

Using this site, consumers can learn how to avoid identity theft, and find out what to do if their identity is stolen.  Businesses can receive [...]