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Understanding Email Services: What are they and what do you need?

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

You thought email was a simple concept, but you are at once confronted with a plethora of acronyms and jargon like POP, IMAP, WebMail, Aliases, Forwards, SMTP, IMAP, POP, Quota, SPAM, TLS, SSL, Archival, and more! This article describes the ins and outs of email, explains these terms, and helps you figure out what services and features you need from your personal or business email service provider.

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User Group Distribution Lists are Here

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Group Distribution ListLuxSci has added a new, often requested feature to its User Groups collaboration tools — the ability to associate an “email address” with the User Group so that all messages sent to that custom email address are forwarded to all members of the User Group.  This is a Group Distribution List.

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Accounting, Taxes, and Identity Theft

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Everyone always harps on the necessity of privacy when discussing health care, government, and banking communications.  It is surprising how little attention is paid to email security with regards to accounting and tax preparation.   There is a real danger of identity theft, unintended information disclosure, as well as invasion of privacy when using tax preparation services or organizations that do not use secure email.  Why is this?

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iPhone Email Tips and Tricks

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

The iPhone is a great piece of technology, but like all technology it has it’s quirks, as well as some features that you should be aware of when using it to send and receive email. Based upon our experience using iPhones ourselves and in supporting our clients’ varied use of iPhones for connecting to LuxSci email services, we have the following nuggets for you.

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New Feature: Remove Attachments From Email

Monday, December 15th, 2008

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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Exporting your Email and Other Data to CD or DVD

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

There are many reasons why users or administrators might want to have their email data exported and saved to CD or DVD.  These include:

  • Creation of permanent archives
  • Preserving old email that is no longer actively needed, but which should be kept
  • Obtaining copies of email data for legal proceedings
  • To reduce server disk space usage
  • To migrate data to another provider or an in-house solution

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SecureLine Escrow Recipients Can Now Easily Download Their Messages

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

Recipients of SecureLine Escrow secured email messages can now easily and securely download their messages from the Escrow portal to their local computers for permanent storage and easy access. These downloaded messages are saved as ".eml" files which are openable in many popular email programs such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Outlook Express.

Optional Forced Use of SSL for Email Services

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

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.

Outbound Email Monitoring

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

Account administrators can now enable monitoring of all outbound email sent by all users in their domains for specified content — keywords and phrases. Messages containing searched-for content are logged and can be BCC’ed to an auditing email address and/or blocked from being sent. Wild cards are supported and all subjects, bodies, text attachments, HTML attachments, and message attachments are searched (other types of attachments are not searched).This feature allows businesses to enforce policies about what types of information can be sent by email from their employees. Users affected by this monitoring are notified in our WebMail interface for privacy reasons.

Global Taglines and Disclaimers

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

Account administrators can now configure global tag lines and disclaimers that to be attached to all outbound email messages sent by all users in their domain(s). These can be in plain text or full HTML format and can be in any language. Administrators can configure this in the “Outbound Email Tools” section of their Domain Management pages; they can specify different tag lines for each of their domains.

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