PostfachNo more ghost messages from Zimbra.
They have no sender and no subject, they are dated 1 January 1970, they count as unread, and when you delete them they come back. If your mail is on a Zimbra server, you may know them well. In Postfach they do not appear.
A message from nobody, from 1970.
A ghost message is a row in your mail program with nothing behind it: no sender, no subject, no text, and the date a computer shows when it has none, 1 January 1970. It is marked unread, so it raises the number on the app's icon. Delete it, and the server answers that it cannot; at the next check the row is back.
- No sender, no subject, nothing to read
- Dated 1 January 1970
- Unread, so it is counted on the app's icon
- Back after every delete, for days
Where they come from.
You move or delete a message on your phone or in webmail while the mail program on your computer is connected to the same Zimbra server. For that connection the server can go on listing the message for days, though it is gone.
Asked for it, the server does not say so. It sends an empty stand-in: no sender, no subject, zero bytes, dated 1 January 1970, unread. A mail program that takes the stand-in for a message shows a ghost. Asked to delete it, the server refuses, because there is nothing left to delete, and at the next check it sends the stand-in again.
- It is the server's answer, not a fault in your mailbox: no mail is lost
- The real message is where you put it: in the folder you moved it to, or deleted
- It happens when several devices read the same mailbox, which is how most people read mail
What Postfach does.
Postfach reads the stand-in for what it is. An answer with no bytes and an empty envelope describes no message, so Postfach stores nothing and lists nothing. What you deleted on one device is gone on the others, and stays gone.
- No empty rows, in any list
- No unread count and no notification for mail that does not exist
- A message you delete while Postfach is checking the server is not fetched back
- Nothing to switch on, and nothing in your mailbox is changed for it
And the rest of Zimbra.
Found from your address
Choose Zimbra, type your address and your password. Postfach looks the server up from your domain and uses the ports Zimbra serves on. Adding a Zimbra account →
A year of mail in one move
A Zimbra server takes at most a thousand messages in one move. Postfach sends a larger one in parts, so dragging a whole year into the Archive works. More about the Archive →
Mail, and only mail
Postfach reads and sends your mail. The calendar and the contacts of your Zimbra account stay on the server, for webmail or the apps you use for them.
Get Postfach.
Zimbra without the ghosts, on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. From the App Store, one purchase for all three.
