Zimbra Briefcase as WebDAV – xmarks sync

I went to all the hassle of setting up a WebDAV server with Apache, after hacking Zimbra to only bind to 1 IP – seems crazy to me that Zimbra binds to all available IP’s with no easy option to tell it not to – only to discover i could have infact just mounted the Zimbra Briefcase.

Below are the screenshots required to set it up using xmarks (previously Foxmarks), however you can use the URL to mount it as a WebDAV share with which ever application you choose. Note im using HTTPS exclusively, so if youre only using HTTP change the URL as appropriate.

First set your username and password to that of your Zimbra account, note the format of the username – your full email address:

Next setup the URL to point to your Zimbra Briefcase, im using HTTPS here you may need to change if thats not enabled on your Zimbra server – although quite frankly it should be the only option enabled. The format of the URL includes your Zimbra webmail address with the username in the following format ‘user.name%40domain.com’ – not %40 replaces the @.