Italian and Russian: LuxSci now supports Italian and Russian speaking people with Italian and Russian versions of our member's web site. Simply change your "Primary Language" in "Your Profile" to your language of choice. LuxSci supports: English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, and Korean.

Secure SMTP: LuxSci now supports Secure SMTP over TLS! This allows you to send email through our servers in such a way that your message contents, username, and password are protected.

Custom Email Filtering: Announcing an all new email filtering tool based on Procmail! This tool allows you to design and configure arbitrary email filtering rules which can perform actions such as saving messages to specific folders, forwarding messages to specific addresses, marking messages as important, etc., based on whether the messages meet your specified criteria. You can also fully designate the order in which all of your custom email filters and the system email filters (like the Spam filter and the auto-responders) are applied. Now you can take full control over your email!

Korean: Do you or does anyone you know speak Korean? LuxSci now offers its WebMail interface in the Korean language, simply select "Korean" as your primary language in your user profile.

Japanese: Do you or does anyone you know speak Japanese? LuxSci now offers its WebMail interface in the Japanese language, simply select "Japanese" as your primary language in your user profile.

Swedish: Do you or does anyone you know speak Swedish? LuxSci now offers its WebMail interface in the Swedish language, simply select "Swedish" as your primary language in your user profile.

Anti-Spam: We have upgraded our basic Spam filter software. In additional to generally improved rules, we now allow you to filter using the SpamCop database, filter SPAM from email lists that from which you cannot opt out, block specific senders using a black list, and have email from your subscribed email lists not be marked as SPAM.

International Invited Lecture: Erik Kangas, PhD, President of LuxSci gives an invited talk at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. The talk is entitled "Email and Text Messaging Security in the Wired and Wireless Worlds". Read the press release.

Secure POP and IMAP: Download your email with secure POP or IMAP (i.e. over SSL). All the information transferred via secure POP or IMAP (including your username and password) will be authenticated and encrypted for security.

Auto-Refresh WebMail: LuxSci has just added a new feature to its WebMail application. On the "Check your email" page where you view the contents of any of your email folders, there is a new option under the "More Options" submenu -- "Enable Auto-Refresh". If you choose this option, your email folder window will automatically recheck the current folder for new email every five minutes, saving you from needing to manually check it!

Support Tickets: LuxSci has just replaced its simple "feedback" form with a robust issue tracking system. See the "Support Tickets" option under the "Support" menu. You can use this tool to request answers to questions or problems, to suggest features, to report bugs, or simply to submit feedback. Your ticket and all responses to it will be tracked by our system to help provide you with the best and most efficient support for your issues. The tickets also serve as a permanent record of all correspondence and solutions for both your and our reference.

Web Site Marketing: LuxSci has just released a FREE tool that you can use to analyze your web pages and determine keywords and key phrases to add to your web page based on their frequency of occurrence in your web page. A good correlation between your meta keywords and their frequency in you web pages is one way to improve your search engine ranking. You still need to have lots of good content, however!

Billing: We have just significantly upgraded our billing system. You can now view your new billing activity, current statement, all previous statements, and payment information in your revised Billing Information page. Note that 1.5% late fees will now be automatically assayed when statements are 30 days or more overdue.

Web Hosting: If you are an Email Hosting client, you can easily add web hosting on to your account. The upgrade entitles you to all your current email services PLUS 1 web site and 1 Gb/mo in bandwidth. You can also upgrade your bandwidth, number of web sites and domains as much as you want. You can manage any number of web sites under your single account.

Drafts Folder: Our WebMail application now supports saving email messages in a Drafts folder so that you can resume composition and sending later. Press the "Save to Drafts" button in the email composition window. Then, go to your Drafts folder, select a message and press the "Continue Draft Message" option to reload and continue your composition.

Dynamic Web Sites: The Gilbane Report! Gilbane, one of our design, hosting, and content management clients, has just won The Emerald Computing Coolsite Award! Among other things, they were commended on their site's attractive design and fast-loading pages. This web site is completely dynamic, backed with a MySQL database, and managed with LuxSci's Online Content Management Tools.

Usability: We have replaced the email folder selection lists in WebMail with new hierarchical pop-up menus, and simplified the layout of these pages to improve their look and feel.

Chinese: If so you can now view much of the LuxSci web site in Chinese. Simply choose "Chinese" as your language of choice in Your Profile. We are currently working on Russian and German and looking for translators for other languages.

Shopping Cart: Announcing enhancements to the LuxSci shopping cart software:

• Increased customizability through style sheets
• Faster and easier checkout process
• Automatic JavaScript validation of Item Attributes, and
• Enhanced client account status tools.

Error Logs: LuxSci has changed the way your web site error logs are managed. If you wish to use and view your error logs (i.e. you are tracking errors in your web site programs and scripts), you must enable capturing of web site error logs in your Web Site Manager tool.

Lux Scientiae, Incorporated: Lux Scientiae, Incorporated is formed as a Massachusetts Corporation. The former entity, "InfiniteDimensions", had been in business since December, 1999. This marks only a change in the company name, legal status, and branding. All of the staff, software, and intellectual property remain the same.

Internationalized Login Page: The member's login page includes several new features, including:

• It remembers your username so that you can login faster
• It remembers your preferred language and displays itself to you in that language.
• It allows you to select any of the currently supported languages for display of login text and error messages.

Domain Management Security: For those clients hosting multiple domains with us. You can now assign domain management permissions to you individual users on a per-domain basis. Use the user configuration tools to assign to each user those domains that s/he is allowed to manage. Domain management permission allows your users to view Domain Information and configure Email Aliases for specific domains.

Also, you have the ability to assign web site management permission to your users on a per-web site bases. Web site management permission enables you to use the Web Site Manager tool and view Web Site Statistics.

Spanish, French, and Russian: Now you can read the most commonly used pages of the member's web site in French, Spanish or Russian! Simply select one of these as your primary language in "Your Profile" in the member's web site. We are currently working on the Chinese language. If you would like to assist us in the translation to these or other languages, contact us.

Shopping Cart v2.0: We have added many new features to our shopping cart software. The new features include:

• An online order manager where you can track orders placed, view complete order information, and update order status and shipping information.
• A client order status tool where you clients can login and view the status of any order.
  • Supports display of tracking information for orders shipped via UPS or FedEx.
  • Gives them access to downloadable documents or software they may have purchased from your store.
• You can now sell downloadable documents and software
  • Upload the files to a secure directory
  • Clients can download them as soon as their orders are paid
  • You can limit the period of time during which they can download the files without re-purchasing them.
• Support for the sale of items that are Free.
• Support for payment via Purchase Orders
• Extensions that allow you to tie the Shopping Cart into arbitrary external databases of users during the login and final checkout process: you can keep both databases in sync, or control who is allowed access to purchase items!

Email Translation: Now you can translate your outgoing email messages into any language before sending!* Simply compose your email message as usual. When you are done, use the translation tool at the bottom of the email composition window. A pop-up window with the translation will appear. You can then copy and paste any of the translated text that you wish into your message.

*The translation you will see will be produced automatically by state-of-the- art technology. Unfortunately, today's most sophisticated software doesn't approach the fluency of a native speaker or possess the skill of a professional translator. Automatic translation is very difficult, as the meaning of words depends upon the context in which they are used. Because of this, accurate translation requires an understanding of context, as well as an understanding of the structure and rules of a language. While many engineers and linguists are working on the problem, it will be some time before anyone can offer a quick and seamless translation experience. In the interim, we hope the service we provide is useful for most purposes.

International WebMail Features:

• Reading Email: Read email containing text in any language or multiple languages. The text will always be displayed correctly.
• Write Email: Write email containing text (in the subject and body) from any language or even from multiple languages. Respond to email containing text in any language. You can choose the character set the email is encoded in or use Unicode.
• Translate Your Email: Automatically translate email (and help) containing text in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish text into any of the other of these languages automatically using built-in machine translation technologies.
• International Email Fully Supported by our autoresponders, bulk email tool, SPAM filtering, Remote POP email downloader, and all other email-related tools. Complete compliance with the designated character sets and automatic upgrading to UTF-8 when necessary to correctly preserve the content of all languages present.

Localization Features:

• Time zone: Select your preferred time zone in which all dates and times will be displayed.
• Language: Select your preferred language to have the contents of the member's web site displayed in. We are currently working to translate the web site from English to several different languages including: Chinese, Russian, and French. You could join our translation team! Contact us if you are interested in helping us translate the web site into any language. Online translation management tools and translation history tracking tools are provided.
• Date and Time: Choose your preferred formatting for dates and times.

WebMail: A number of other small features have been added to our WebMail:

• Add addresses to your basic SPAM filter "white list" while browsing your email folders using the new "Add to White List" command. Simply select the email messages from people you want added to your white list and press the "Add to White List" command. Email from these senders will then never be considered SPAM.
• You can now increase or decrease the number of attachments you can include in your WebMail messages via your WebMail Preferences.
• Email Folder sorting is now faster.
• You can now unflag messages that you have previously flagged as important for followup via the "UnFlag" command.

New Basic anti-Spam Filter: You can turn basic SPAM filtering on and off in your WebMail Preferences or in the SPAM Filter Configuration Tool located in the menu.

The SPAM Filter detects email that is 99% likely to be spam, email that is likely to be SPAM, and email that may contain one of several prevalent viruses. You can use the SPAM Filter Configuration Tool to have these messages sorted to different email folders, deleted, returned to the sender for confirmation that they are not SPAM, or forwarded with complaints to the sender and their ISP.

You can further configure your SPAM Filter by supplying a "White List" of people's email addresses and/or domains that will never be considered SPAM. This is especially useful if certain people that you correspond with occasionally get their email classified as SPAM for some reason.

If you download your email via POP, the SPAM Filter will add special headers to your email messages so that you can configure your POP email client to sort the email messages when they are downloaded to your computer. See the online help for details.

This SPAM filter is not a virus scanner, although it may catch some common viruses. We strongly suggest that you employ a commercial virus scanner on your computer and fully scan all incoming email. See McAfee.com for one such product.

We suggest you enable your SPAM Filter and use the default settings for a while and read the SPAM Filter Help to learn more about the many ways of configuring your filter.

Backup Email Folder: This new feature goes hand-in-hand with the basic SPAM Filter, but can easily be used on it's own. If you turn on the new email preference entitled "Save a copy of the newest 100 messages in your BACKUP folder?", then a new email folder will be created called "BACKUP". Copies of your 100 newest messages will be saved in this folder and updated every time a new message arrives.

This is particularly useful as it protects your against accidentally deleting messages, either manually, or via the SPAM Filter. It also allows you to keep copies of the 100 newest messages on the server even if you are downloading all your email with a POP email client.

This feature can be enabled in your WebMail Preferences or in the SPAM Filter Configuration Tool.