LuxSci has offered “Private Labeling” for many years.  This feature allows customers to customize the look and feel of the WebMail and SecureLine interfaces to match the branding of their web site or organization’s colors.

Private Labeling tools now include:

• 11 new color schemes that can be selected to quickly configure WebMail to match your organization’s general color scheme.
• A new Private Labeled Theme Creation Wizard that allows you to select a color scheme plus upload your logo.  The Wizard will then create a professional looking standard theme.  Our wizard makes it easy and fast to create a theme that matches your organization’s branding — no HTML or programming skill is needed.
• A “Look and Feel Wizard” that allows anyone with an existing Private Labeled theme to similarly select a color scheme and upload a logo to re-design their theme using one of the new styles.
• Better organized theme management to further simplify theme access and configuration.

LuxSci has updated Account Administration on its members’ web site.  Account Administration tools help users manage billing, updates, users, domains, web sites, databases, private labeled themes, and other account settings.

The new user interface offers a crisper presentation of information and provides a more unified and consistent feel across all administration pages. Navigation is much simpler too.  The interface also integrates more AJAX components to make searching for users, domains, and web sites faster.

Read receipt requests are generally an extremely unreliable way to find out if your recipient has read an email messages that you have sent to him/her.

Why? Because

• Some email programs do not support read receipts, and thus messages viewed with these would never send you a notice that the message was read.
• Programs that do support read receipts allow the user to respond to them “always”, “never”, or “ask each time” … with “asking each time” being the default.  As a result, users often will decline your request for a receipt that you have read the message.

However, when messages are sent via LuxSci’s SecureLine Escrow encryption service, read receipts are guaranteed to work.

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LuxSci has supported login to Web-based email and administration consoles since January, 2009. OpenID allows users with logins to other websites to use those logins to access their LuxSci accounts as well — thus needing to remember fewer passwords, or to have enhanced security.

Now, in addition to permitting any generic OpenID login, LuxSci has specific OpenID login support for logins from Google, Windows Live ID, myOpenID, Yahoo!, Facebook, AOL, flickr, VeriSign Personal Identity Portal, Livejournal, Blogger, and WordPress.

These specific options make it easier and faster to use OpenID logins from these providers.

To use an OpenID to login to your LuxSci account, you need to login normally first, go to “Account > My Profile > OpenIDs”, and then add your OpenID login to your account as an authorized means of logging in for you.

LuxSci has improved the look and feel of the SecureLine Escrow and SecureSend portals.  In the process, the maximum message size that can be sent from these portals has been raised from 20 Megabytes to 50 Megabytes (raw size) and the maximum number of attachments on one of these secure messages has been raised from 3 to 20 files.

The SecureSend portal allows anyone with an email address to send secure email messages to any LuxSci SecureLine user for free.  The SecureLine Escrow portal is where recipients who do not have PGP or S/MIME capability go to pick up secure email messages sent to them from LuxSci SecureLine users.

People have asked us if sending an email to someone via BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) is HIPAA-compliant.  For example, a doctor’s office sending a newsletter to its patients via BCC.  The presumption is that because when a message is sent via BCC, the recipient’s email address is not visible in the message that there is no way to identify the individual(s) to whom the message was sent and thus the messages do not contain any “personally identifiable health information” that is protected by HIPAA.

The short answer is “BCC is not good enough“.  For the long answer, read on.

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LuxSci has enhanced the import and export features of its Blogs WebAide so that users can import content from WordPress WXR export files and can export WebAide Blog posts into WXR files for import into WordPress blogs.

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LuxSci now supports manual and automated backups and restores of all data in all WebAides. This means that address books, calendars, tasks, blogs, and other collaborative WebAides are backed up to protect you from accidental data loss and also allow you to back them up yourself for archival purposes.

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