Month: May 2004

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 […]