|
|
Edited by Erik Kangas, PhD, President of LuxSci
|
Bringing you news, solutions and insider insight on LuxSci and our digital life
Archive for 2009
Friday, June 19th, 2009
 To address the request of many clients, LuxSci has simplified the process of picking up SecureLine Escrow encrypted email messages. This change makes message pickup faster and easier and improves the usability of the SecureLine service overall.
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: escrow, message, password, secureline, security
Posted in New Feature Announcements
No comments »
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
 LuxSci has updated the optional Quarantine Reports that are sent to users of its Basic Spam and Virus Filtering service. These reports, once enabled, send users a daily email listing any new Spam and/or Virus messages caught by the filters and saved in separate Spam and Virus folders.
In addition to an improved look and feel, several new features are now available in these reports.
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: always allow, deny, quarantine, release, report, spam
Posted in New Feature Announcements
1 Comment »
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
 LuxSci has added a new “Account Setup Wizards” area to its administration control panel. This area brings together all of the various tools for “adding things” all into one place. Additionally, the tools for adding users, domains, web sites, and databases have been completely re-written to make the administrator’s job easier, faster, and more intuitive. Lets hear it for usability!
Tags: account setup, bulk, upgrade, wizard
Posted in New Feature Announcements
No comments »
Monday, June 8th, 2009
 LuxSci has long supported and recommended the use of security questions for users. When a user has a security question and answer, LuxSci support can use this as an alternate method of verifying the user’s identity. This is important when the user has forgotten his/her password or certain types of requests need to be verified.
While we have allowed users to provide a security question for many years, and have asked new account administrators to provide one at sign up for about the last year, use of a security question has never been mandatory. Starting today, all account and domain administrators are required to have a security question. Those who do not will be automatically prompted to choose one the next time that they login to the LuxSci WebMail user interface.
Users can choose a pre-defined question, or enter a question of their own.
We hope that this change improves the security of accounts and assists account administrators in recovering access quickly in cases where passwords are lost or where there is a dispute about account ownership.
If this change goes well, we will extend the security question requirement to all users.
Tags: password, secret question, security question, webmail
Posted in New Feature Announcements
2 Comments »
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
 LuxSci has added support for the Zend Optimizer to its web hosting services. The Zend Optimizer:
- Runs PHP applications encoded using Zen Guard. This is the “most widely accepted PHP encryption product on the market, it protects your application from unlicensed use and reverse engineering.”
- Runs normal PHP scripts faster than would otherwise be possible.
All web sites on LuxSci that use PHP are now automatically being optimized for performance by the Zend Optimizer.
LuxSci also supports the ionCube PHP Loader.
Tags: php, zen guard, zend, zend optimizer
Posted in New Feature Announcements
No comments »
Monday, June 1st, 2009
 LuxSci’s High Volume Outbound Email Sending Service, released earlier this year, has been a notable success. Our service permits the sending of legitimate bulk email messages and also provides reliable “smarthost” services. However, the offering is restricted to SMTP services and does not include the many outbound email processing tools present in LuxSci’s Premium Email service. I.e. see LuxSci Outbound Email: 5 Sending Options Compared!
Since High Volume Mail was offered, we have had many requests to send HIPAA-compliant bulk outbound email, i.e. newsletters and notices that contain protected health information (PHI) . In such cases, SecureLine should be used to encrypt the outbound email in a way that can be opened by any recipient, but which is still secure. Unfortunately, integration with SecureLine is not a feature of our Basic High Volume service.
LuxSci has responded by releasing Premium High Volume Outbound Email Service. This is essentially Premium Email hosting with:
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: bulk mailing, high volume, hipaa, outbound email, phi, secureline, smtp
Posted in New Feature Announcements
No comments »
Monday, June 1st, 2009
 LuxSci has expanded its administrative disk space usage controls to domains. Administrators can now optionally impose hard disk space limits on a per-domain basis, such that all users in a domain are suspended from using more space once the total space used by the domain reaches a pre-defined limit.
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: disk space, domain, limit
Posted in New Feature Announcements
No comments »
Friday, May 29th, 2009
 LuxSci’s email services are versatile, as well as secure. We offer solutions to many problems and meet a diverse assortment of specialized needs. One important niche well-served by LuxSci’s flexible and highly configurable system is that of parental control — specifying exactly what email should be sent and received by children and keeping tabs on that email, while not restricting the parent’s (administrator’s) email usage.
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: adults, children, email filtering, family, family email, filter, kids, monitor, parent, parental controls, restrict
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
No comments »
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
 LuxSci’s new “Sender Restriction” feature allows account and domain administrators to exert firm control over which email is delivered to their users. When enabled, this feature permits the specification of:
- An “allowed sender list” of domains and/or email addresses. Email from anyone not on the list will be refused (bounced back to the sender with an error).
- An “denied sender list” of domains and/or email addresses. Email from anyone on this list will be refused (bounced back to the sender with an error).
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: allow list, block, deny list, from email, restrict, sender
Posted in New Feature Announcements
4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
 Starting June 1st, 2009, LuxSci will change the way that it determines monthly disk space usage. Going forward, an account’s monthly disk space usage will be its “peak disk space usage” — i.e. the maximum disk space used during the month.
If an account’s peak usage exceeds its purchased disk space limit, the account will automatically use “supplemental disk space” to make up the difference with no noticeable change for users. Supplemental disk space is a convenience that costs 150% of what the same disk space would cost if planned for and purchased ahead of time.
Read the rest of this post »
Tags: 95%, bandwidth, disk space, hard, limit, maximum, price, quota, soft, supplemental
Posted in LuxSci Insider
No comments »
|
|
Receive automatic updates via email:
