Using Webmailer to set Zimbra as the default mail client
One reason for the latest pause on Hawk Wings is the new Zimbra 
test server at work.
Finally, work’s steam-powered SquirrelMail web interface is set for replacement with Zimbra, ushering in a Brave New World of Blazing Collaborative Productivity.
As a “fairly knowledgeable amateur” the IT Department has given me the job of trying to break it by doing stupid things. I haven’t succeeded yet.
Webmailer offers a way to remove one of the annoyances in using a web-based email service. It lets you set Zimbra (or Joyent’s webmail or Yahoo! or Roundcube or whatever) as the default email client, so that clicking on an email address opens a new message in the web-based interface of your choice.
After installing it, you need to add Zimbra to its list of options.
The string that works for me is:
https://SERVER/zimbra/mail?view=compose&to=[to]
Click a mailto: link and, as if my magic, Zimbra makes you a new message:
Nice.
Also nice are Zimbra’s new filing and tagging keyboard shortcuts, which make leaving Mail.app (temporarily) less of a wrench. By allocating numbers to the most-used tags and folders, it is possible to get close to the Nirvana that only a Mail.app GTD nut truly knows.
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