We have recently seen a significant increase in occurrences where users are getting Spam email messages that appear to come from their own address (i.e. “joe@domain.com” gets a Spam email addressed from “joe@domain.com”).  We discussed this issue tangentially in a previous posting: Bounce Back & BackScatter Spam – “Who Stole My Email Address”? However, many users wonder how this is possible, while others are concerned that their Spam filters are not catching these messages.

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Now that LuxSci supports OpenID as an option for logging into WebMail, it raises the questions:  “Just how secure is OpenID?” and “Does this new technology allow for more secure logins?”  In short, the security of OpenID can vary from very poor to extremely iron-clad. OpenID does allow you to make your logins to WebMail “bullet-proof”, if you set things up appropriately.

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LuxSci now allows users to login to its WebMail, Affiliate, and SecureSend portals using an OpenID. This feature can make logins faster, simpler, and even more secure by:

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While LuxSci provides cutting edge services on robust hardware to give you a non-commodity service with very high reliability and speed, we do seek to make our prices as affordable as possible.

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Have you ever wanted to add a note to an email for yourself or someone else?  The digital age has seen the paper-clipped note go the way of the dinosaur.  Today’s software programs may offer electronic notes and comments, but none specifically for email that is also shareable across programs.  Until now.   LuxSci has a feature in WebMail to add notes to messages that can be viewed by everyone and in most email programs. 

Except for Thunderbird and a few others, we are not aware of an email client that lets you make "notes" on email messages… and those that do are only visible in program that created them and not by anyone else looking at the message via IMAP or WebMail. We got to thinking of how useful a note would be that is part of the email message and viewable by anyone,  in any email program.  The LuxSci email note literally "sticks" with the message as it is forwarded to someone or copied/moved to another email folder. 

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The LuxSci Software Platform allows organizations to run LuxSci’s software on their own servers, in their own data center(s), supported by their own staff.  This is very flexible and cost effective and used by ISPs and other organizations with moderate to large numbers of users. LuxSci has just released a "Support API" for such organizations so that many of the standard support tasks can be automated or controlled by external systems.

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The situation: you send and receive email messages via many different email addresses (aka "you have multiple email personality syndrome") via a single login.  I.e. email from several work and personal addresses are all forwarded to your main email address, so you get all your email in the same account.  Very convenient, but…

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After many requests, LuxSci has added a new action to its custom email filtering tools.  This action allows you to strip all attachments from messages matching your specific criteria.  You can do this in one of two ways:

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We recently talked about the problems created by backscatter or bounce back spam.  I.e. the pain caused by getting lots of "delivery failure" messages for messages that you never sent, but which arrive at your door anyway. One of the solutions we have provided for dealing with backscatter, if you have this problem, is to create a custom email filter in your LuxSci WebMail interface that will delete or save all bounce messages.  While this works well, it also has a drawback.

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LuxSci has re-written its web-based task management interface from the ground up to provide users with a fast, modern, featureful experience.  The WebAides Tasks user interface now matches that of WebMail, Address Books, and Calendars in AJAX-based Web 2.0 speed, data caching, and usability.  The major changes that come along with these user interface enhancements include:

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