LuxSci has significantly improved the automatic checking for new email messages in its WebMail application.

Previously, automatic checking was lacking: you had to manually enable automatic checking, messages were checked for only every 5 minutes, and checking stopped as soon as new messages were detected.

Now, automatic checking works with the speed and usability of a desktop email application:

• Automatic: WebMail will always check for new email messages — you never have to “enable” anything.
• Fast: Checking for new messages happens as frequently as once/minute*
• Multiple Folders: WebMail checks for new email messages in your current folder, your INBOX, and any other folders that you have added to your “QuickCheck” list (you can have up to 5 folders on this list in addition to your INBOX).  You can be informed of new messages in any of your important folders, even if you are currently working in other folders.  Many folks have requested automatic checking for new messages in multiple folders — it is finally here!
• Notifications: WebMail will notify you of new email
  • Icons are displayed next to folders with new messages in them in your folder tree
  • The “Get Email” button pulsates yellow if there are new messages in the current folder
  • An audible “new email” sound is played (you can turn that off — you can also upload your own new email sound)
  • A pop-up window can be displayed if you have new messages in your INBOX (good if your WebMail window is minimized or hidden — use of this, too, is a Preference).

Combined with our recent turbo charging of WebMail, you will find use of web-based email at LuxSci a productivity booster.

*The frequency of checking depends dynamically on how long the checking actually takes and can very from 1 to 5 minutes.  The speed of checking may be slower than once/minute if you are checking many folders, large folders, or if your email server is responding slowly at the moment (i.e. due to a usage spike). For most people checking will be close to once/minute.

I read about how Gmail supports “multiple Inboxes” and this seemed like a nice new feature.  However, LuxSci has allowed users to access the Inboxes and other folders from other accounts in its unified WebMail interface for over a year and a half now … i.e. this is old news. However, it’s not really “old news” as their “multiple Inbox” feature is named in misleading way — it is not supposed to give you access to other people’s Inboxes!

In this post, I’ll show you how to simulate multiple Inbox access in Gmail using the “multiple Inboxes” feature and indicate how this is not really a true multiple Inbox scenario and has some significant limitations.  Then, we’ll show you how to set up the same thing in LuxSci. Finally, you’ll see how to use LuxSci for true shared folder access.

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Improved WebMail Performance: LuxSci has greatly improved the speed and performance of its WebMail interface.

LuxSci’s email folder management tools have allowed users to remove duplicate email messages from email folders using custom criteria for some time. Now, users can remove duplicate email messages from the current folder in directly the WebMail message list interface by selecting the new "Remove Duplicate Messages" option from the "Folders" menu. This "do it now" option will use your stored duplicate message criteria for the current folder, if you have any, or common-sense defaults for what generally constitutes a duplicate email message.

LuxSci has made significant changes to the user interface and facilities available to users under "Email Folders" area. The noteworthy changes to the email folders tool include:

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LuxSci’s WebMail suite allows you to share selected email folders with other users so that they can have read-only or read-write access to the messages therein. Combined with message tagging and message annotation, folder sharing facilitates easy and powerful email collaboration. Email folder sharing in WebMail is a standard feature available to all LuxSci email users.

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LuxSci has added a feature to the Email Folders tool that allows users to find and remove duplicate messages in a folder based on message ID, subject, sender address, and size. Users can set this to run automatically on a nightly basis, or simply run it manually at the push of a button.