LuxSci FYI

Tag Enhancements for Email and Collaboration

Erik Kangas — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:42:33 +0000

LuxSci has released several significant enhancements to its email and WebAides collaboration tools services that enable users to use “tags” more extensively to manage, categorize, and sort through their information. For a long time, LuxSci has provided users with the ability to use tags to label and color code email messages, address books entries, documents, etc. [...]

WebMail User Interface Enhancements

Erik Kangas — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:42:13 +0000

LuxSci has made some notable enhancements to its web-based user interface: LuxSci now supports some of the new features of FireFox v3.5 and Internet Explorer v8.0 that improve the speed of our web interface (native JSON processing). When creating custom email filters that save matching messages to a specific email folder, users can now create new email [...]

SecureLine Escrow Message Pickup Simplified

Erik Kangas — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:19:58 +0000

To address the request of many clients, LuxSci has simplified the process of picking up SecureLine Escrow encrypted email messages. This change makes message pickup faster and easier and improves the usability of the SecureLine service overall. When a secure message is sent using LuxSci SecureLine to an arbitrary email address (i.e. one for which S/MIME [...]

Updated: Quarantine Reports for Basic Spam and Virus Filtering

Erik Kangas — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:56:58 +0000

LuxSci has updated the optional Quarantine Reports that are sent to users of its Basic Spam and Virus Filtering service. These reports, once enabled, send users a daily email listing any new Spam and/or Virus messages caught by the filters and saved in separate Spam and Virus folders. In addition to an improved look and feel, [...]

Updated Wizards Simplify Account Setup

Erik Kangas — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:43:31 +0000

LuxSci has added a new “Account Setup Wizards” area to its administration control panel. This area brings together all of the various tools for “adding things” all into one place. Additionally, the tools for adding users, domains, web sites, and databases have been completely re-written to make the administrator’s job easier, faster, and more intuitive. [...]

Security Questions now Required for Administrators

Erik Kangas — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:01:40 +0000

LuxSci has long supported and recommended the use of security questions for users. When a user has a security question and answer, LuxSci support can use this as an alternate method of verifying the user’s identity. This is important when the user has forgotten his/her password or certain types of requests need to be verified. While [...]

Zend Optimizer now Supported with LuxSci Web Hosting

Erik Kangas — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:42:11 +0000

LuxSci has added support for the Zend Optimizer to its web hosting services. The Zend Optimizer: Runs PHP applications encoded using Zen Guard. This is the “most widely accepted PHP encryption product on the market, it protects your application from unlicensed use and reverse engineering.” Runs normal PHP scripts faster than would otherwise be possible. All web sites [...]

New! Premium High Volume Outbound Email Service

Erik Kangas — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:15:29 +0000

LuxSci’s High Volume Outbound Email Sending Service, released earlier this year, has been a notable success. Our service permits the sending of legitimate bulk email messages and also provides reliable “smarthost” services. However, the offering is restricted to SMTP services and does not include the many outbound email processing tools present in LuxSci’s Premium Email [...]

New! Control Disk Space Usage on a per-Domain Basis

Erik Kangas — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:15:10 +0000

LuxSci has expanded its administrative disk space usage controls to domains. Administrators can now optionally impose hard disk space limits on a per-domain basis, such that all users in a domain are suspended from using more space once the total space used by the domain reaches a pre-defined limit. By default, each LuxSci account has an [...]

Safe Family Email with LuxSci Parental Controls

Erik Kangas — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:57:59 +0000

LuxSci’s email services are versatile, as well as secure. We offer solutions to many problems and meet a diverse assortment of specialized needs. One important niche well-served by LuxSci’s flexible and highly configurable system is that of parental control — specifying exactly what email should be sent and received by children and keeping tabs on [...]