LuxSci has released several small updates to its software. These include:

• The “Move To New Folder” tool in WebMail is now more user friendly in terms of keyboard-only usage.
• The “Email Composition” page will warn you when your WebMail session expires so that you can save your important email data and not lose it.
• Account administrators can now easily review all WebAides in use in their account using a new “User WebAide” report. Administrators can also delete WebAides from this report.
• Administrators with Private Labeled WebMail can now further customize their WebMail logins pages by hiding some content that was previously always present on these pages.

Update: Data restores are now free and unlimited accounts with Premium Support.  They are for a fee in accounts with Basic Support.

LuxSci has revised its policy on free data restores. The previous policy was that each account gets one free restore from backup each month, period (additional restores were available for a fee). Now, unused monthly free restores accumulate as credits toward future restores. So, for example, a client who has been with LuxSci for 1 year has 12 free restores (minus any already used that year). This new policy is retroactive — so most existing clients will have some restore credits.

The LuxSci custom email filtering tool, available to all users, has been enhanced with two new features:

• A new “action” has been added that can be used when a filter matches an email message. The “Send notification email to” action works like the “Forward message to” action, except that the subject of the message is prefixed with “[NOTICE; the body and all attachments of the message are removed. This makes the “notification” action ideal for sending very small alert email messages to addresses of your choice based upon specific parameters.
• SecureLine users who also use the “Automatic Inbound Decryption” feature can determine when the decryption happens with respect to other filters in their account. In particular, this allows SecureLine users of this feature to perform some action on the message before decryption (i.e. such as saving backup copies), and some actions after decryption.

In addition to the SecureLine and Forced SSL enhancements, a few other changes have been made to the Account Administration pages:

• Users’ “Email Encryption” preferences can now be viewed and edited by account administrators under the “Manage Your Users” section of the Account Administration pages.
• The Theme Management tool for administrators with Private Labeled WebMail has been enhanced to allow more customization of the WebMail login pages. Administrators can now customize the titles of the login pages and optionally remove the “Forgot Password” link from the login page.

LuxSci has previously permitted account administrators to force everyone in their account to use only secure (over SSL) connections to POP, IMAP, SMTP, and WebMail. This feature has been extended to manage SSL use on a per-domain [Aor per-user basis. Additionally, LuxSci has improved the Forced SSL feature so that it supports secure SMTP usage on any LuxSci SMTP ports, not just ports 465 and 6465. Sending email securely on ports 25, 80, 2025, and 6025 is now permitted with “Forced SSL” enabled. Forced SSL is now compatible with any modern email client in combination with any other LuxSci outbound email features in use.

SecureLine-licensed users can add two new options to the cutting edge features of SecureLine email so that users can send and receive secure email messages directly from any email client without additional software to install!

• SecureLine Automatic Outbound Encryption will automatically encrypt email messages sent from any email program if the recipient(s) are other SecureLine users or if information on how to secure their messages is stored in the sender’s address books(s). Messages that cannot be encrypted due to lack of information about the recipient, can be sent normally [insecurely] or not at all. Additionally, the sender can be notified about what happened and why. Combined with the use of Enterprise WebAide shared address books, it is easy to share recipient encryption information (like public keys or Escrow security questions and answers) across all users in your account.
• SecureLine Automatic Inbound Decryption allows you to automatically:
  • decrypt secure messages to you upon arrival at LuxSci,
  • apply additional filters, if required, and,
  • store as unencrypted messages in your email folders.

  This allows you to access these messages (securely over SSL) from any email client using POP or IMAP (as well as from WebMail).Both automatic encryption and automatic decryption can be configured on an account-wide, domain-wide, and per-user basis. Use of these features also enables “forced use of SSL” which will require all connections to email data via POP, IMAP, SMTP, and WebMail to be secure.

LuxSci now supports the sending and receipt of email messages up to 50 Megabytes in size. This is an increase over our previous limit of 30 Megabytes.

LuxSci’s new “WebAideSynch for Outlook” is a powerful synchronization tool allowing Enterprise WebAide-licensed users with Microsoft Outlook versions 2002 and later to synchronize their Outlook contacts with shared LuxSci Address Books at the click of a button. Upcoming versions of WebAideSynch will also allow users to synchronize their shared Outlook calendars and task lists with LuxSci. WebAideSynch is a COM add-in that integrates directly into the Outlook toolbar upon installation, making it easy to synchronize your data in a matter of moments.

Web hosting users with MySQL databases can now optionally use TLS (Transport Layer Security) when connecting to their MySQL databases from remote locations. Use of TLS ensures that all communications between these users and our MySQL servers are encrypted.

Account administrators now have the option to easily force all of their users to employ only secure connections (over SSL) to LuxSci email services. This includes POP, IMAP, SMTP, and WebMail services.