9/22 Update: I forgot to mention we added ability to view your Zenbe Calendars as ICal feeds in this post. See the new blog post on Zenbe support for the ICal format for more details.

Last week we rolled out some new features to the Zenbe Mail product. I’d like to highlight a few here:

“Back to…”

We’ve moved the back functionality out of the toolbar and into the sidebar in the Mail tab. Now you’ll see more information about what you’re going back to so you can better remember your context.

Set an end date for recurring events

You can now set an end date for your recurring events. In the “event details” dialog, under the “Repeat Event” section you’ll see options for choosing an end date:

Edit your alternate email address

We use your alternate email address to send you help on resetting your password if you’ve forgotten it and occasionally other important information. You can now see and edit the alternate email address we have on file for you. Click on the settings link in the upper-right corner of the screen and look for it in the top section of the settings dialog.

Birthday calendars

If you store birthdays for your contacts we’ll now create a “Birthdays” calendar in Zenbe for you to keep track of them. To add a birthday for a contact, edit the contact in your address book.

After the first time you add a birthday for a contact you’ll need to refresh your browser. Then click on the calendar tab and you should see a “Birthdays” calendar when you click on the gear on the right side of the toolbar.

Contact Us Form

If you need to contact us directly, please use the “Contact Us” link on our home page to use the new contact form. We can’t always respond to every inquiry directly but we try to keep up as best we can. Here’s a direct link:

Zenbe Contact Form

Skip Browser Warning

If you use a browser that is not “officially” supported by Zenbe, we display a warning message before you login. Now you can check a box to dismiss this warning message in the future:

Zenbe Goodies

We put together a little page of Goodies we’ve hacked together for people that want more integration of Zenbe into their browser experience. Check out our “Zenbe This” bookmarklet, Webmail Notifier script, and Firefox 3 mailto: protocol handler on the Zenbe Goodies page.

What’s next?

We’re working on a lot of new and interesting features. Here’s a sneak peek at a few things you’ll see rolling in the next several weeks.

IMAP Support

We’re releasing our IMAP server to production sometime next week. We got a lot of great feedback via our alpha testers and have found and fixed several bugs with their help.

Conversation View

We’re starting to alpha test our conversation view feature with a few users. Over the next two to three weeks we’ll be opening up the alpha test to even more users. Click here to sign up to be a conversation view alpha tester.

We’re still making lots of enhancements to the user interface, but here’s a little sneak peek at what a conversation looks like in Zenbe:

SSL Support

We know full SSL support is important to a lot of our users when they read their email. Right now we always make sure any login or password changes are encrypted by your browser. Now we are working to make more and more of the Zenbe Mail experience work completely over the https protocol for those of you who want full encryption for everything you do on Zenbe – starting with reading your email.

Superior Email Organization

We think there are better ways of finding email that’s important to you – without having to create lots of cumbersome rules. We’re working on an innovative UI to allow you to view email from only the people you care about in a single click. We’ll be sharing more details on that feature over the next few weeks.

Better iPhone Lists Integration

Right now Zenbe Lists for IPhone users have to go to a separate web site to manage their lists online. We’re working on making your iPhone lists available in the Lists Quickview within Zenbe Mail so you’ll have seamless access to your lists regardless of where you are logged in.

As always, thank you to all of you who have been using Zenbe, particularly those who have registered for our forums and given us lots of valuable feedback.

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