Zoho Mail – Review

June 19, 2008
By sinha

If you have to build a new email client, what sort of different feature can you think of?

Zoho Mail offers following features:zohomail

  • Configure multiple mail accounts to access all your personal and official mails from a single mail client.
  • Choose your preferred way of organizing mails using hierarchical folder and/or flat labels.
  • Mail conversations using Conversation View (i.e. threads).
  • Import Contacts from your Gmail and Yahoo accounts.

Zoho’s tabbed interface is quite similar to Yahoo Mail

and offers few new features like:

  • Setting Mail priority – though other email clients don’t support this feature, but is a much useful feature for businesses who are on Zoho.
  • International Language support – Apart from UTF-8, zoho mail also supports EUC-JP, EUC-KR etc.

Zoho mail, to me isn’t a consumer play – but is much needed for Zoho to be most relevant for it’s SMB play.

Feature request – support MX records delegation, in order for SMBs to use it as a self-service product.

What’s your take?

Aside, Yahoo! has launched rocketmail and ymail domains – early birds get id of their choice!

               About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in. He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]

2 Responses to “ Zoho Mail – Review ”

  1. Radha Vembu on June 20, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Dear Ashish Sinha,

    Thanks for taking time to write about Zoho Mail.

    Regarding support for MX record delegation, we already support domain registration to host email for companies. To know more, visit http://business.zoho.com/

    We will be glad to answer any of the queries you send to supportzohomailcom.

    Please continue to use Zoho Mail and send us your feedback.

    Regards,
    Radha Vembu
    Zoho Mail Team

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