It is an extremely common and annoying practice of spammers to send you email that is from yourself or your colleagues or friends.  I.e. “forged email”.  We discuss this problem in the article: Save Yourself From “Yourself”: Stop Spam From Your Own Address.

Users of LuxSci’s Premium Email Filtering service now have a new and very powerful weapon to stop this kind of spam — “SPF-enabled allow list entries”.

This feature allows you to easily receive protection from forged spam messages while at the same time ensuring that legitimate messages sent between users in your organization are not filtered or caught as spam.

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McAfee, LuxSci’s partner in providing Premium Email Filtering and Premium Email Archival, has reduced some of its prices for Email Archival. LuxSci is able to pass these savings on to new customers. Customers with existing archival contracts with LuxSci can opt for a new contract and changed pricing by contacting LuxSci Support.

The pricing changes are as follows:

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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.

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LuxSci recently had the opportunity to speak with Nate Fitzgerald, Product Manager of Message Archiving at MX Logic.  Nate has been with MX Logic for over 4 years and is responsible for their successful archival service.  His insight has been invaluable in helping LuxSci get up to speed with all of the technical nuances of this service. We would like to share with you his knowledge and thoughts regarding the security, reliability, and utility of LuxSci’s Premium Email Archival service.

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LuxSci’s Premium Email Filtering services include an optional "Click Protection" module that allows administrators to intercept the action of a user clicking on a link in an email message in order to  a) give the users warning,  b) log where people click through to, c) block clicking, etc.  This feature helps protect end users from phishing attacks that come in via email, where malicious senders try to trick users into going to fake URLs so they can steal their identity or payment data (i.e. the classic fraudulent emails purporting to be from "PayPal" come to mind as a prime example).

On Tuesday, January 27^th, an administrative option within ClickProtect that currently tracks URL click throughs while allowing users to visit websites linked within email messages without a warning is being removed.

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