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We at LuxSci are constantly upgrading our offerings to keep up with the
cutting edge in email and web services and technology. We consider all
customer requests closely, and, when possible, implement them quickly.
Here is a selected list of recent events and feature implementations that
have contributed to our comprehensive email and web hosting services.
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December, 2007
December 8, 2007
Revised Custom Email Filtering Tool:
LuxSci has revised its custom email filtering tool:
- Users can now create filters that will forward messages or send
notifications to their cellular phone via SMS.
- Users can now specify their own custom bounce messages or
notifications as an alternative to the default messages.
- The "Move" actions in the filter list have been revised to make
reordering the list easier; the Move Up/Move Down buttons have been
replaced by a Move To button that will allow users to quickly move a
filter to a new position in the order. In addition, users can now move
more than one filter at a time.
- Users can now edit filters by clicking on the name of the filter or
by clicking the icon in the Edit column.
- Filters can now quickly be enabled or disabled by clicking on the
icon in the Status column.
- Filters that are enabled will display an icon in the Status column
identifying which action it is currently performing.
- A new column has been added to the filter list that will let users
change the color of the filter as it appears in the list. This is for
better organization and does not affect the behavior of the filter itself.
- Users can now sort the filter list by the title, order, status, or
color of the filters.
- The filter conditions section of the create/edit page has been
revised; the "Use" and "Not" checkboxes have been replaced with dropdown
boxes to make specifying conditions more intuitive.
- New options have been added to the filter creation/edit page; users
can now change the color of filters as they appear in the filter list, and
they can add custom notes to provide supplementary information for each
filter. Note that the color feature is not available in the Xpress portal.
- Users can now create custom email filters that effectively remove
email headers from messages (in addition to the previously available
option for adding headers).
Revised Configuration and Tools Interface:
LuxSci has revised its interface for user configuration and tool usage:
- The "My Profile", "My Reports", "My Preferences", and "My Email Tools"
areas have been unified into a single simple interface for managing
"Configuration and Tools".
- The unified interface has been extended to the account administration
area as well making it easier and faster for administrators to manage user
settings.
November, 2007
November 17, 2007
Improved Collaboration:
LuxSci has improved it collaboration features:
- Users without an Enterprise WebAide
license can now share their personal address book and calendar globally
with all users in their account. This provides the most basic and
sought-after form of collaboration to all accounts for free.
- The interface for sharing email folders and WebAides is now much more
user friendly and consistent.
- WebAides can now be globally shared with "all users in your domain".
- If you have a WebAide license, you can share any WebAide with any user
in your account, even with users who do not have a WebAide license.
- Administrators can "force" the sharees of their WebAides to be
automatically subscribed to them. This makes it easy to setup shared
calendars and address books that everyone can use immdiately without
needing to "set anything up".
- The sharees of shared email folders and WebAides now see changes in the
status of the items shared with them immediately without the need to
"synchronize" or perform any kind of updating actions. I.e.
synchronization for all users now happens immdiately upon any change to the
shaing status of any folder or WebAide.
- Users without WebAide licenses can now be members of a "WebAide User
Group". This permits much more flexible sharing of WebAides and folders.
- Global administrators, i.e. administrators of multiple accounts, can
now share their WebAides and email folders with users in other accounts.
November 5, 2007
Premium Email Filtering Addresses Attachment-Based Spam:
A proprietary "Deep Content Analysis" filter has been added to our " Email Defense" Premium Email
Filtering solutions. This anti-spam filter targets attachment-based spam
variations, specifically PDF spam. PDF spam is the latest generation of
image spam, which uses graphics instead of other masking techniques to
conceal an unsolicited advertisement's call to action.
When: The inclusion of this effective filter has been seamlessly
integrated and has already begun protecting customers of LuxSci Email
Defense. As a result, there are no service outages or visual changes to
the system.
Impact: The Email Defense Service performance and reporting will
continue to operate without any visual impact. This new filtering module
enables protection from the increasing volume of messages that carry
infected attachments. This behind the scenes filter is positioned to
capture not only PDF spam but address future attachment spam variations as
well.
Why: The addition of the Deep Content Analysis filter is in direct
response to the influx of PDF spam; however, its abilities go beyond this
specific spam variation. Our Threat Center continually monitors worldwide
email traffic for emerging threats and develops solutions to address them
before they affect our customers. Today, those attachments come in .pdf,
but the Threat Center is always looking out for tomorrow.s spam variation.
The Deep Content Analysis filter was developed with a feature-set that
enables a quick response to future attachment spam variations.
October, 2007
October 22, 2007
Free LDAP Address Book Access:
Previously only available to users with Enterprise WebAide licenses,
LuxSci now provides all users with free, secured access to their address
book(s) via LDAP. The LDAP Address Book Service is compatible with many
e-mail clients - including Eudora, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express,
Thunderbird and Pine - and allows read-only, searchable access to all
subscribed address books.
October 15, 2007
Bulk Alias Management:
LuxSci now permits account administrators to create and delete
aliases in bulk. Bulk alias creation can be don via forms or via
CSV file uploads. Combined with our CSV alias report feature, it
is now very easy to download your alias list, edit it in a
spreadsheet program, and then re-import all the changes in bulk.
October 12, 2007
New Administrative Tools:
LuxSci has released several new tools to assist account administrators.
These include: Bulk user deletion and CSV downloads of information about
all or selected users, aliases, and domains in your account. These
functions were previously also available via LuxSci's API; they are now
also available to via our regular web-based administrative interface.
October 5, 2007
Bulk User Creation Tool:
LuxSci has released a new AJAX-based bulk user creation tool
that enables administrators to easily add users to their accounts in bulk
by either entering details in a multi-user creation form,
or by uploading Comma- or Tab-delimited text files.
September, 2007
September 26, 2007
Global Account Administration:
Clients who have multiple LuxSci accounts can now utilize a special
feature called "Global Account Administration" that allows them to
administer all (or any subset of) their accounts with a single login. This
feature also permits searching across all accounts and access to some
advanced controls for clients whose accounts are on dedicated servers.
September 19, 2007
Premium Email Archival Setup Fees Waived:
The setup fee for premium email archival will be waived if you sign up for email archival before November 1st, 2007. This saves you $650.
August, 2007
August 28, 2007
Premium Email Archival:
LuxSci now offers a Premium
Email Archival solution for businesses that are required to monitor,
store and retrieve company email messages in order to comply with
electronic security regulations. Premium Email Archival minimizes the cost
and risk associated with non-compliance, loss of proprietary information
and inappropriate employee emails.
Premium Email Archival is court-tested to meet compliance requirements
and offers permanent, immutable redundant, read-only storage of inbound and
outbound email which is searchable in real time and provides mechanisms
for importing and exporting email.
Premium Email Archival services are also available as a stand-alone
service for those who have an existing email solution that they wish to
keep.
Optional Premium Email Filtering Features:
LuxSci now offers "FailSafe" and "Continuity" options for its Premium Email Filtering service.
FailSafe offers (a) automatic queueing of inbound email should your
inbound servers be unavailable and (b) optional outbound filtering of
email sent from your servers. Continuity offers (a) extended storage of
queued email, and (b) WebMail-like access to queued email during your
server downtime so that your users can still send and receive email
messages.
LuxSci also now offers a "Budget" version of its Email Defense Premium
EMail Filtering Solution. The "Budget" version includes spam, content,
and attachment filtering without virus and worm filtering at a lower price
point for organizations who already have virus filtering on the client
side and who are very cost conscious.
All four verisons of our Email Defense Premium Email Filtering service,
the regular version and the 3 variations above, can be purchased on our
web site with new accounts or can be added to existing accounts.
July, 2007
July 14, 2007
Password Protection:
LuxSci's web site control panel now enables administrators to easily
define users with passwords and user groups for managing access to their
web sites. Administrators can use this interface to specify which users
and/or user groups have read-only and/or read-write access to any
directories in their web sites. Different web site directories can have
different access controls.
WebDAV Support:
LuxSci's web hosting now supports "WebDAV" which, combined with our
easy-to-use access controls, allow for the use of your web space for
access-controled file sharing and access-controlled calendar sharing.
July 7, 2007
iPhone:
LuxSci's IMAP, POP, and SMTP features are fully compatible with the
iPhone.
June, 2007
June 30, 2007
Content-Driven Automatic Encryption:
SecureLine now allows you to set up
rules to automatically encrypt only certain messages based on keywords,
phrases, and regular expressions that appear within the content.
Content Monitoring with Regular Expressions:
LuxSci's outbound email content monitoring service now permits use of Perl
regular expressions in the specifications of the content. This provides
administrators the ability to match content patterns (like social security
numbers, account numbers, etc.), rather than just keywords and phrases.
June 23, 2007
Format=Flowed Email:
LuxSci has updated its email infrastructure so that all plain text email
messages generated vis WebMail and other email tools are encoded as
"format=flowed" (RFC 2646). This makes it much easier to read messages
sent in this way on devices with small screens, such as phones and PDAs.
June 22, 2007
Email Defense Enhancements:
The following service advancements ae being introduced into the Email Defense service:
- On-Demand Spam Quarantine Reports: Domain and Account Administrators will be able to generate Spam Quarantine Reports at any time, which can be delivered directly to users via email. Why? . On-Demand Spam Quarantine Reports enable administrators to better serve internal users who request immediate inventories of their quarantined messages.
- Expanded User Account Views: Administrators can expand their User Accounts views to accommodate up to 100 lines of information, up from the current limit of 10 lines. The default setting will be set at 25 lines, and administrators will be able to adjust the setting between 10 and 100 lines. Why? . By expanding the amount of User Account information visible at any one time, administrators will gain a greater snapshot view of User information without having to move back and forth between pages.
- Transport Layer Security Identifier: MX Logic will include information in the "Received" line of the message header of each encrypted inbound and outbound email that will note that the message is being securely delivered via Transport Layer Security (TLS). Why? . By adding TLS encryption information into the message header, administrators will be able to confirm that a secure, end-to-end TLS connection has been made.
- Account Setup Tools: A Test Connectivity selector will be placed on the Inbound Server Setup page, which when clicked will test the connectivity between your email server(s) and the filtering servers. Testing connectivity will enable administrators to test their configuration and to identify potential issues with inbound server setup and configuration. The portal will also provide detailed setup instructions in the Outbound Server Settings section to assist customers with the configuration of their Outbound server(s), if appropriate. Why? . This feature is designed to make service setup procedures easier and more informative.
June 16, 2007
Email Folder Sharing in WebMail
LuxSci's WebMail suite allows you to share selected email folders with
other users so that they can have read-only or read-write access to the
messages therein. Combined with message tagging and message annotation,
folder sharing facilitates easy and powerful email collaboration. Email
folder sharing in WebMail is a standard feature available to all LuxSci
email users.
What can you do with Email Folder Sharing?
Users can:
- Share your any number of their folders with other users in their
accounts.
- Choose if folders shared with them will be visible in WebMail or not
by "subscribing" to only the folders they want.
- Share folders as read-only or read-write depending on with whom they
are shared.
- Copy and move messages between shared folders by simply dragging and
dropping.
- Share with arbitrary combinations of individual users, everyone in
their accounts, and everyone in their domains.
- Make arbitrary groups of users that can be centrally managed to
easily add and remove any user's folder entitlements. This feature
requires an Enterprise WebAides license.
- View the status of shared folders on their Welcome pages.
- Use shared email templates.
Administrators can:
- Automatically subscribe users to shared folders.
Email Message Annotation in WebMail:
An annotation is extra information (a note) associated with a particular
email message. LuxSci's WebMail enables you to add notes to any email
message such that those notes are visible the next time you or anyone else
looks at that message in WebMail, IMAP, or POP. This is especially useful
when you are sharing your folder with others or want to keep track of the
progress actions associated with particular email messages.
Annotation is implemented by removing the original message from your
email folder and adding a new message that is identical to the original
except for the addition of your notes. These notes are thus visible in any
email client and all message details, including dates and message tags are
preserved after annotation.
Email annotation in WebMail is a standard feature available to all
LuxSci email users./
What can you do with Email Annotation?
- Add notes to any
email message in any folder to which you have write access.
- Annotate
a message any number of times.
- Tell quickly if messages have been
annotated or not via a configurable icon column in your WebMail message
list.
- Make annotations easily using a configurable tool bar command.
- Annotate multiple messages at once with the same note.
- Search
for messages that have or have not been annotated, or search for text that
may be in the annotations of your messages.
- Use either plain text or HTML for your notes.
- View the date and
time any annotation was made, along with who made it, without having to
manually save anything.
- Keep track of the order of your notes.
Annotations are pre-pended to your messages by default -- so you see all
of the annotations first, starting with the most recent, followed by the
message itself. You can optionally have the annotations appear at the end.
- Check notes for spelling errors
Email Message Tagging and Color Coding in WebMail
Email tagging enables you to color code and label your email messages
with multiple keywords. This process helps you to both sort your messages
into categories and to visually identify particular types of messages by
color. This new and more visual system simplifies management of your
email, especially if you are sharing your folder with others via IMAP or
WebMail.
Email tags are implemented as "IMAP Keywords" and are thus compatible
with any IMAP email client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, that also
supports them.
Email tagging in WebMail is a standard feature available to all LuxSci
email users.
What can you do with Email Tags?
Users can:
- Define any number of tags and associated colors.
- Easily add and remove tags from one or multiple email messages.
- Color code messages based on the tags with predetermined colors.
- View all the tags associated with each message in their message list and message display.
- Filter their email by tag and use tags as search criteria.
- Define tags that display arbitrary text--including Unicode content.
- Define special tags that display custom text different than the actual tag embedded in their email messages.
Administrators can:
- Define global tags and colors to be made available to all users or users in specific domains.
Changes to the Email Folder Management Interface
LuxSci has made significant changes to the user interface and facilities
available to users under "Email Folders" area. The noteworthy changes to
the email folders tool include:
- The look and feel has been significantly improved.
- The folder properties are now viewed and edited on the same page as the folder tree.
- You determine the total number of messages and the number of unread
messages in all of your folders. Similarly, you can also determine the
total disk space used by each folder.
- Copy/Move to New Folder: This new command allows you to easily copy
or move ALL messages from one folder to another folder.
- Auto-Archival: The auto-archival feature has a new option that
allows you to have newly created archival folders be subfolders, rather
than at the same level, to the folder archived. This provides for a better
organized folder tree.
- Duplicate Removal: The duplicate message removal feature has been
enhanced with the addition of the new duplicate comparison criteria "tags
and flags". This criterion allows you to include all custom tags
associated with your messages and their flags (read, flagged, replied,
etc.) when determining if two messages are to be considered duplicates of
each other. Any difference in the tags or flags will result in the
messages being considered "different".
- Download Folder as EML: This command now allows you to download your
folder as an archive of "EML" files (where each message is a separate file
in the "EML" format). These standard files can be easily read by email
programs like Outlook Express and Mozilla Thunderbird and thus allow you
to easily access your downloaded email or to import it into other programs.
- Review Tags: Message "Tags" in use in the folder can be viewed in
the .Review Tags. section. It is also possible to remove these tags from
the folder in this section.
- Folder Sharing: This new section allows you to share your email
folders with other users in a read-only or read-write manner.
- QuickCheck: What used to be called "folder subscriptions" is now
referred to as adding folders to the "QuickCheck" group. This is the
group of folders whose status is displayed in your Welcome Page
- Subscriptions: If one or more folders have been shared with you by
other users, you can see all of these folders, from whom they are shared,
and the level of access you have to them. You can also "subscribe" (and
"unsubscribe") to these folders. Subscribed shared folders will be
visible in your WebMail interface; unsubscribed ones are only visible in
your Email Folders tool.
- Folder Synchronization: Email folder "synchronization" now not only
updates your folders so that they match what is actually on disk, it also
updates your list of shared folders and the list of email templates
available to you. This is performed when you login and go to your WebMail
message list page, provided that there has not been a recent
synchronization. As always, you can also use the synchronization commands
in the WebMail message list page or the Email Folders tool to have your
folders synchronized "on demand".
WebMail Message List and Message Display Updates:
Several enhancements have been made to the WebMail interface. These include:
- Optional tool bar commands for tagging and annotating messages;
these can be configured in your preferences. You can also use new hot
keys, Shift-T and Shift-N, to tag and annotate messages, respectively.
- Optional message list columns for displaying the tags on your
messages and if messages have been annotated or not; these can be
configured in your preferences.
- Holding down the control key while
dragging and dropping messages will cause those messages to be "copied"
instead of "moved".
- Drag and drop moving of messages from a
read-only folder will automatically perform a "copy" instead of a "move".
- HTML message content no longer makes the message appear to have an
"attachment" as most messages these days are formatted using HTML.
However, HTML messages with attached images and messages with actual HTML
documents attached will result in the "paperclip" attachment icon being
displayed.
Account Administration Changes:
The following updates have been made to our account administration tools:
- User administration has been updated to provide administrators
access to the revised "My Email Tools" area for each user. This replaces
the individual administration pages for individual tools like email
folders and email filtering with one area entitled "user's email tools".
- Shared Folders: The advanced account administration settings allow
you to control if your users and administrators can share folders with
their entire domain and/or your entire account. These settings also allow
you to enable or disable the use of "forced folder subscriptions", whereby
administrators can force sharees to be automatically subscribed to
selected folders.
- Message Tags: You can configure default account-wide and domain-wide
message tags and their respective colors.
- Private Labeling: There is a new option for private labeled
configuration under the "login" configuration page. This allows
administrators to force all users logging into the Full portal (as opposed
to the Xpress portal) to only use the JavaScript keyboard tool to enter
their passwords.
The Member's Help and Documentation:
LuxSci has made some significant changes in re-organizing its help in order to enable users to find aught-after documentation more easily. These changes include:
- The main help page display the current most popular help articles
- There is now a left navigation bar visible on all help pages that includes:
- Help Search
- A concise tree of major help areas
- A list of the recent help documents that you have viewed
- A list of all help documents that refer to the current document
- A list of all help documents that the current document references
- Documents can now exist in multiple categories. All categories in
which a document exists are listed across the top so you can easily click
to see all documents in those categories.
- Easy access to a list of all categories and to all articles in each category
- Separate articles have been created for all FAQs to make it easier
to find targeted results to searches and to associate individual FAQs with
individual articles.
- Users can now remove the yellow highlights on search results by
clicking on a "Remove Text Highlights" link below the search box.
May, 2007
May 2, 2007
Daily SMTP Limit Increased to 300 messages/day:
LuxSci has increased its default limit on the number of email
messages that can be sent daily by each user via SMTP from
200 messages/day to 300 messages/day. This applies to messages
sent from email clients like Outlook and Thunderbird and does
not apply to messages sent from WebMail.
April, 2007
April 8, 2007
Outlook WebAideSynch v3.1.0 Released:
Outlook WebAideSynch is the Microsoft Outlook v2002+ plugin
that allows you to synchronize your LuxSci contacts,
calendars, and tasks with Outlook if you have an
Enterprise WebAide License.
The latest version fixes several bugs in previous versions
and features more functional and comprehensive support for synchronizing
data in different time zones, as well as a new tool that let's users clean
duplicate items in an Outlook folder without needing to perform a
synchronization.
April 6, 2007
SecureLine Enhancements:
LuxSci has made significant improvements to the
SecureLine end-to-end email
encryption service that make it much easier to use. These include
- New SecureSend Portal: While SecureLine users have always been able
to send secure email messages to anyone, it has not always been easy to
receive secure email messages from folks without existing email security
without at least sending them a secure message first. With the new
"SecureSend Portal", anyone with an email address can send secure messages
with attachments to any SecureLine user at any time and for free. The
SecureSend portal is located at http://securesend.luxsci.com and this
domain can be private labeled with your group's own vanity domain name.
- Import and Export: SecureLine Escrow questions and answers saved
in your address books can not be imported and exported with your
address book data using CSV files. This additional makes it very easy to
build your list of Escrow questions and answers offline in a spreadsheet
or to merge them in from external data sources.
- Default Escrow Question and Answer: A default question and answer
for use when sending SecureLine Escrow messages can now be configured on
a global, per-domain, and/or per-user basis. Whenever a secure message
is sent to someone for whom security information has not yet been configured,
the default question and answer are used to make the sending process quick,
easy, and secure. This also makes sending outbound from email clients using
SMTP simpler as you may not have to pre-configure your recipient information
ahead of time.
- Rich Text in the Escrow Portal: When sending replies to messages in the
SecureLine Escrow portal, users can now utilize a Rich text editor to mark up
the message text with font colors, boldness, etc.
- Replies in the Escrow Portal: The process of replying to messages in
the SecureLine Escrow portal has been revised so that it is always possible
to reply to any messages that you have received there, even if it was sent
from an email alias or non-SecureLine user. Additionally, users can now
edit the subject lines of the messages when they are replying to them.
- Sending Email To SecureSend Users: People who have registered to use
the "SecureSend Portal" have specified their own security questions and answers.
These questions and answers are now used by default whenever a SecureLine
user tries to send a secure message to one of these people. This makes it
easier to send them secure messages, as the sender does not have to make up
or communicate a security question and answer to the recipient.
March, 2007
March 7, 2007
New Auto-Responder Features: LuxSci has improved its email auto-responders by adding
two new features:
- Scheduling: Users can now optionally specify a start and end date/time for their
auto-responders to be enabled. The system will take care of turning them on and off and
notifying the user when these events happen. Account administrators can also
optionally choose to enforce a policy whereby all auto-responders must use scheduling.
- Reminders: Users can now optionally specify a date after which they will receive
a daily reminder to turn off their auto-responders (until they do so).
New Preferences: LuxSci added a couple of new user-preferences based on user feedback:
- No Previews for Read Messages: Users can optionally disable message previews for messages that
have already been read. For users on slow Internet connections, this can make their WebMail experience
better by improving speed.
- Always Show Sender and Recipient Email Addresses: By default, WebMail displays the name of the message
sender or recipient in the message list. This name is taken from the
message itself and is specified by the sender. This preference turns off
this behavior and results in the display of the email address of the
sender and recipient instead of the respective name in the message list.
March 3, 2007
New WebMail Interface Released:
LuxSci's has released a new, cutting-edge WebMail interface which faster,
better looking, and much more customizable than LuxSci's previous offering.
This list is a summary of some of the significant changes and
enhancements in LuxSci's new WebMail.
Important Changes to the WebMail Email Message List:
- The Message List interface has been revised to support multiple
customizable areas for a message list, a message view/preview, and
an email folder tree. You can choose how you would like to
arrange these panes and you can resize them by dragging on the
dividers between them.
- Navigation among folders and message groups has been simplified.
- The old "More Commands" submenu has been replaced by
four new submenus: "Folders", "View", "Message", and "Tools".
- WebMail has been speed-optimized though the use of smarter server-
side and client-side caching as well as through extensive use of
AJAX.
- The message list now has separate fixed-width columns for each
type of message header data (i.e. subject, sender, etc.). You can
choose which columns are displayed, in what order, and how much
space they occupy.
- The message previews have been removed from within the message
list and are now displayed in a new "preview pane" which is
enabled by default. Additionally, the previews now show you the
first 25 lines of the text or HTML content of your messages. This
makes it much easier and faster to see what is in your email.
Note that the viewing of message previews is completely safe
- A new "folder tree" pane has been added that lets you see
your email folders in a hierarchical layout. You can also
create new folders and synchronize your folder tree with the
server easily.
- You can now drag and drop message(s) to move them into folders
when you have the new folder tree pane displayed (it is enabled
by default).
- Email messages are now selected by clicking on them instead of
by using checkboxes. Additionally, you can use control-click
and shift-click to select multiple messages.
- A "Full Screen" mode has been added which removes all extraneous
content from the message list page, maximizing the available
screen space usable for viewing your email.
- The message list page now supports a wide array of keyboard
shortcuts to make common tasks easier. These are listed in the
new submenus and in the help.
- You can now view the threading of messages when you sort your
email folder by "thread".
- Clicking on the "read" or "flagged" columns in the message list
will toggle the respective read or flagged state of the message.
- The basic searching features of WebMail have been improved by
allowing you to quickly select messages based on the following
criteria: today's email, yesterday's email, email from the last 5
days, all read email, all flagged email, all unflagged email, all
not read email, all deleted email, and all not deleted email.
- Many per-message commands can now be performed from the message
list. These include: view message source, download message as an
EML file, and view message in a printable format.
- New commands have been added:
- Copy message to a new or existing folder
- Edit a message as new
- Create new email folder
- Synchronize email folders with server
- Cancel Search
- The "Auto Refresh" functionality has been improved:
- Better look and feel and integration
- Auto refresh now lasts for two hours before needing to be reset.
- Auto refresh now always checks the status of your INBOX, no
matter what folder is actually being viewed.
- Auto refresh does not extend your idle timeout... so your
session can expire while auto refresh is enabled if you
are not otherwise using WebMail.
- You can now double click on a message to view the full content.
- Viewing the HTML content and image content of messages inline
can now be toggled via commands in the new "Message" submenu.
- The preservation of search and sort state has been enhanced.
- Sorting is now done exclusively by clicking on the headings of
the columns to be sorted instead of by using menu commands.
- When you sort by Sender or Recipient, their email addresses are
always displayed instead of their names, as this is the content
actually employed by the search.
- Trying to view the full content of a message in the drafts and
templates folders will open a composition window and load the
selected message into it.
- Sorting and searching by message sent date has been improved
so that the dates used in the search are based on your selected
time zone.
- Improved rendering and processing of messages with arbitrary
character encodings.
- Improved rendering and processing of malformatted HTML-encoded
messages.
- The Xpress portal's message list page has also been improved
to add many of these new features and user interface elements.
Important Changes to Email Composition:
- The email composition page now checks in with the server before it
tries to send your message so that it can alert you if you session
has expired or if there is any kind of Internet connectivity
problem. In this way, you will not lose the content of the message
you are sending in any of these situations.
- The HTML editor for email composition has been improved. The new
version includes a "maximize" button that you can use to expand
the editor to "full screen" while you are composing the message
and shrink it back to normal when done.
- When used in a pop-up window, the email composition screen now
looks and feels much better.
- Composition of HTML messages with inline images has
been improved.
- You can now hide and show the "Message Options" area of the
composition page.
Important Changes to the Email Message Display window.
- The message header area at the top of the message body can now
be expended and collapsed to help you save screen space.
- The message body, header, and attachments are visible via
separate tabs at the bottom of the page.
- Navigation among messages in the same folder has been improved.
- Email message data is loaded using AJAX so that you can switch
between messages quickly without reloading the page.
General WebMail changes:
- Deleting an email message now marks it as "read".
- Folders with spaces in their names can now be created in WebMail.
- Significant improvements in back-end IMAP compatibility and
seamlessness when multiple users are logged in at the same time
viewing the same folders.
- Folder names created externally which contain unicode characters
will now render properly in WebMail.
- Inline help has been removed. Now all page-specific help
is loaded into a pop-up window.
- Access to external automated language translation sources
that used to be available when composing or viewing email
messages had been removed.
Important Changes to User Preferences
- The preferences user interface has been significantly revised to
make it much easier to find relevant preferences.
- There is a new preference that you can use to cause you to go
directly to your INBOX when you login to WebMail, skipping the
"Welcome Page".
- You can now select from among 6 different views of your WebMail
message list page
- You can now configure which email header fields are displayed in
your WebMail message list, and in what order.
- Account administrators can now view and edit all of the
preferences of their users in the administrative interface.
- You can customize what command icons appear on the tool bars of
your WebMail message list, message display, and composition pages.
- You can choose to either preview and view messages in a preview
pane of the Webmail message list page, or always view the full
message content without preview in the preview pane.
- Many preferences added to allow you to further customize the look
and behavior of Webmail.
- The maximum messages you can display at once in WebMail is now
limited to 100. The maximum message preview is also now limited
to 100 lines of content in the full portal and 10 in the Xpress
portal.
- The description of many preferences has been updated for clarity.
Important Changes to SecureLine
- A quick access page is now displayed in WebMail when you are
viewing a SecureLine Escrow message notification. This allows you
to access the message content in the SecureLine Escrow portal much
ore quickly.
February, 2007
February 10, 2007
Beta Version of New WebMail Interface Available:
LuxSci's new WebMail interface is faster, better looking, and much more
customizable than LuxSci's current offering. This interface is being
made available to current and prospective customers to use on a trial
basis.
The rest of this news item, which describes the new interface,
has been removed as being redundant with the news item about the
release itself.
January, 2007
January 14, 2007
Email Folder Auto-removal of Duplicate Messages:
LuxSci has added a feature to the Email Folders tool that allows
users to find and remove duplicate messages in a folder based on
message ID, subject, sender address, and size. Users can set this
to run automatically on a nightly basis, or simply run it manually
at the push of a button.
Restrict User Updates to Contact Information:
As a slight refinement to the Account Admin Tools, administrators can now
optionally restrict users in their account from updating their contact information
(with the exception of the user's secret question and answer). This is in addition
to the existing options that allow administrators to restrict users from updating their
mail filters, auto-responders, mail forwarding, or WebMail signatures.
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