Year: 2004

LuxSci Now Supports SMTP Over Port 80!

October 13, 2004

LuxSci now supports sending of outbound email via secure and insecure SMTP over alternate port 80. While LuxSci has always supported many alternate ports for SMTP, use of port 80 will help many people who are behind very restrictive firewalls. Since almost all firewalls allow traffic over port 80 (which is necessary if you are […]

Secure Web Hosting Updates: Separate SSL Directory

September 24, 2004

LuxSci now enables clients with secure web sites to optionally have the files served for the secure version of their site to be stored in a different directory than the files for the insecure version of their site. This feature allows clients to easily display different content on the secure and insecure versions of their […]

LuxSci Adds SMTPS Support Especially for Outlook Users

May 28, 2004

LuxSci has for a long time supported authenticated secure SMTP via STARTTLS on port 25 and many alternate ports. However, because many ISPs block the standard outgoing email port of 25 and because Outlook and Outlook Express do not support secure SMTP via STARTTLS on ports other than port 25 (for some strange reason), Outlook […]

PHP Updates: Hardened PHP

May 17, 2004

LuxSci has updated the version of PHP supported by its web hosting servers to v4.3.6 and now includes “GD” support in PHP. LuxSci’s installation of PHP is now also “hardened” for security reasons. See http://www.hardened-php.net. Hardened-PHP adds security hardening features to PHP to protect the servers on the one hand against a number of well known […]

Anonymous SMTP

January 26, 2004

LuxSci announces Anonymous SMTP Services. When you send email from an email client (like Outlook or Mozilla), information about your email client and the Internet address of your computer are included in the email messages and are visible to all recipients (This is not true when sending email from WebMail, however). Many people interested in privacy […]