LuxSci’s WebAides Documents have been enhanced for quick and easy sending of one or more saved files via email.

In a Documents WebAide that you are using for file storage:

1. Select one or more documents (files) with your mouse.
2. Start a new outbound email message with these files attached by either:
   • Selecting “Entries > Email Files” from the menu, or
   • Pressing “Control-Z”, or
   • Clicking on the “Email Files” toolbar command, if you have added that option
3. The WebMail email composer is now open in a new window with these files already attached and ready to go!

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• Have email folders with thousands or hundreds of thousands of messages?
• Want to get rid of a lot of those messages?
• Want to do it by date range?

It was always doable — by searching and deleting messages page by page.  Now it is very quick and easy!

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LuxSci has updated its web-based email composition tool in two significant ways:

1. Never get auto-logged out of WebMail again because it is taking a long time for you to compose an email message.
2. Composition of SecureLine-encrypted email messages is now simpler and more user friendly.

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We have released several minor, but useful feature updates today.  These include:

• New Email More Visible: When you have new messages in your current email folder in WebMail, not only will the “get email” button slowly pulsate, but now the title of the window will slowly alternate text indicating that “New Messages Have Arrived”.  This makes the presence of new messages visible even if your window is minimized or if WebMail is not in the active tab of your web browser.
• Empty Trash Tool Bar Command: A new “Empty Trash” tool bar command is available for adding to your WebMail tool bar.  If you find yourself performing this action frequently, you may want to add this tool bar command via your Preferences.
• Auto-Responder Reply-To address: The “Reply-to” email address for email auto-responders is no longer “mailnull@luxsci.net”; it is now the same as your configured “From” address.  This means that “luxsci.net” will not show up in your auto-responders (unless that is part of your email address), and it means that replies to your auto-responders can make it back to you.
• Preferences: The User Preferences pages in the LuxSci web interface have been updated to look better, be easier to navigate, and to make it easier to find the more popular preferences.
• SecureForm: The SecureForm service for securely emailing  the results of secure form posts to you has been augmented.  You can now have any kind of file pre-filled and emailed to you with the form data filled in your configured place holders.  I.e. upload XML, RSS, Text, HTML, or other file types with place holders where your form data should be placed.  These place holders will be replaced with your form data and the resulting file emailed to you.To use this feature, simply follow the same instructions for pre-filling an HTML file and use the “pre-filled HTML” file option with your arbitrary file type.

Tagging of email messages and WebAide entries (i.e. contacts, calendar appointments, files, etc) with color-coded keyword and key phrase tags has been a feature of LuxSci for a long time.

However, the latest enhancements of LuxSci’s web interface make it even faster and more natural to tag and untag messages and entries:

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LuxSci had made several improvements to its Widgets:

• Users can now make new entries in Blog widgets using either plain text or HTML editor modes.  Which should be used is now configurable as a Blog Widget property.
• WebAide-based Widgets and RSS feeds now all have an optional “maximum height” property.  Use this if you would rather the widget have an internal scroll bar and be shorter, rather than not scrolling and showing all applicable entries.
• The Email “Quick Check” widget now auto-checks the subscribed email folders every 2 minutes and updates the display of how many new and unread messages are in each of these folders.

Several months back, we discussed Enforcing Email Security with TLS when Communicating with Banks. This is a critical stipulation for many banks that have strict requirements that all email messages be encrypted in transit via TLS when communicating with them.

Bank of America

Bank of America (BoA) is a case in point.  Their requirements are as follows:

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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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LuxSci 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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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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