Up until last update of Zoho Mail, most of the work on integrating Zoho Mail with Zoho Business was at the server side. Because of this, you wouldn't have had the chance to see what we've been doing behind the scenes. Now, its high time for you to watch the integration happening right in front of your eyes. Yes, in the forth coming week starting from March 5, 2008, we've scheduled a few updates that are much of client-side. With these updates, we'll be integrating Tasks, Notes and Links of Zoho Mail with Zoho Business.

We know most of you are using Zoho Mail everyday for your personal and official emails. To provide you an uninterrupted email service, we've taken appropriate measure to perform these updates without any downtime. During this period, you'll not be able to add, edit or delete tasks, notes and links in Zoho Mail. However, you can do the same from Zoho Business. Once this update is done, you'll find a centralized common Tasks, Notes and Links in Zoho Mail and Zoho Business.

We greatly appreciate your patience and co-operation!

It's been a while since we had a post on Zoho Mail. Its just that we've been so busy working on some critical features and functionalities to move Zoho Mail out of private beta and integrate it with Zoho Business.

As a major step towards integrating Zoho Mail with Zoho Business, we've scheduled an update on Friday, February 15, 2008 between 4.30AM and 6.30AM PST. During this time, access to Zoho Mail will not be available. We greatly appreciate your patience and co-operation during this downtime.

We’ve scheduled an important server-side update for Zoho Business tonight (Tuesday, December 04, 2007) between 10.00PM PST and 11.00PM PST. During this time, access to Zoho Business will not be available.

We apologize for the very short notice and for any inconveniences that this may cause.

We've scheduled a maintenance for Zoho Notebook on Sunday, November 18, 2007 between 9.00PM and 11.00PM PST. Hence, access to Zoho Notebook service will not be available during this period.

We apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause.

We've scheduled a maintenance for Zoho Business on Sunday, October 28, 2007 between 10.30 PM and 11.30 PM PDT. During this time, access to Zoho Business will not be available.

We apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause and appreciate your patience.

[Update @ 11.30 PM PDT] Maintenance has successfully been completed. Access to Zoho Business is available now. Thank you for your patience and co-operation.

A server-side upgrade has been scheduled for Zoho Mail on Saturday, October 20, 2007 between 6.00 AM PDT and 10.00 AM PDT. During this period, access to Zoho Mail will not be available.

We apologize for the inconveniences this may cause.

We know it's been a long time since you noticed any update from Zoho Mail. We are working very hard to add many great features and enhance Zoho Mail's core functionalities including performance, security and scalability. Since most of the work is being done at the back-end, and not much on the design/UI, as an end-user you get very less to notice.

As a step towards improving the overall functionalities of Zoho Mail, we have scheduled a major server-side update on Saturday, 8th September 2007 at 10.30 PM PDT. This upgrade is expected to take about 2 hours. Hence, access to Zoho Mail will not be available during this period.

Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.

In the recent update that we had for Zoho Mail, we rolled out some of the most requested features. These features include:

Documents Tagging
In addition to existing folders way of organizing files, you can now assign as many tags as you'd like to your documents. This feature gives you the option to choose your preferred way of organizing files - folders and/or tags. Our goal is to provide common tags across all the components of Zoho Mail and as the first step to go ahead with this, it is implemented in the E-mail and Documents component.

Writer, Sheet & Show integration
Integration of Writer, Sheet and Show with Zoho Mail lets you open and edit your mail attachments (.doc, .xls, .ppt & .pps) directly without having them downloaded into your local computer. You can also open, edit and save files of .doc, .xls, .ppt & .pps type with versioning in Documents component.

Auto Reply
One of the most requested features, vacation auto reply has been added with this update. With this feature, now you can set up Zoho Mail to automatically generate and send vacation auto reply email messages to all or specific incoming emails. You can find this under Mail Options.

Private Messaging
Get your mail URL from Settings -> General -> Mail Accounts for your configured mail account, and use it in Forums, blogs, websites, etc., for others to send you private messages without exposing your email address to them.

Alias
Two types of aliases we introduced in this update. One for group and another for Contact category. With this new feature, now you can use group name or contact category name to send mail to all the members of the group or contacts of the category.

Other than the above-mentioned features, we have fixed a few issues too. Please do give these features a try and let us know what you think.

It's been a while since we updated Zoho Mail - we have been working away on a lot of stuff, which it is now time to roll out. The long awaited Zoho Mail update has been scheduled on Saturday 7th July 2007 from 10.30PM PDT onwards. Hence the access to Zoho Mail will not be available for about 2 hours during the update.

We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause.

Edit : The update is over. More about it here.

Just an advance notice!

We have scheduled an update for Zoho Mail to address some bugs, add features and enhance User Interface. Hence the access to Zoho Mail service will not be available between 22:30 PST and 00:30 PST on Thursday 10th May 2007.

We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause.