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Posts Tagged ‘imap’
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
 LuxSci users have a new setting whereby they can choose to have copies of all messages that they send via SMTP from their email programs automatically delivered to their “sent” email folder on the server. This is advantageous in that:
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Tags: imap, outbound email, outlook, sent email, server, smtp
Posted in New Feature Announcements
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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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Tags: autoresponder, catch-all alias, email, email alias, email archival, email clients, email provider, imap, imaps, Internet Mail Access Protocol, personality, pop, pop3, pops, Post Office Protocol, private labeling, secure imap, secure pop, secure SMTP, security, Simple Mail Transport Protocol, smtp, smtp authentication, SMTP relaying, smtp server, spam, ssl, tls, web-based email, webmail
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email, TechNotes
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Section 1: Introduction to Email Security
 You may already know that email is insecure; however, it may surprise you to learn just how insecure it really is. For example, did you know that messages which you thought were deleted years ago may be sitting on servers half-way around the world? Or that your messages can be read and modified in transit, even before they reach their destination? Or even that the username and password that you use to login to your email servers can be stolen and used by hackers?
This article is designed to teach you about how email really works, what the real security issues are, what solutions exist, and how you can avoid security risks.
Information Security and integrity are becoming more important as we use email for personal communication and business. While you are reading this article imagine how security problems can affect your business or personal life…. if they have not already.
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Tags: asymmetric encryption, eavesdropping, email security, false messages, http, identity theft, imap, invasion of privacy, message modification, Message Replay, opportunistic TLS, pgp, pop, repudiation, s/mime, Simple Mail Transport Protocol, smtp, SMTP relaying, smtp server, ssl, ssl certificate, symmetric encryption, tls, Unprotected Backups
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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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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Tags: 3g, calendar, connect, contacts, easywriter, edge, email, email account, email services, hotspot, imap, imap folders, imap idle, imap push, iphone, mail, network, sent, settings, signatures, tips, tricks, unread, wifi
Posted in LuxSci Library: Email Programs and Devices, TechNotes
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
 The iPhone from Apple is an amazing Smart Phone, if not a mini personal computer in itself. We at LuxSci have been using iPhones since they were first available in 2007 and we have recently optimized our Xpress WebMail portal with a mobile-centric interface inspired by the iPhone. Many of our clients use an iPhone or other Internet-enabled phone or PDA daily with our email services. The time seems right to share some of our knowledge and experience with iPhones.
Tags: aes, imap, imap idle, imap push, iphone, iphone 3g, mail.app, mobile, pop, ports, smtp, touch, web-based email, wifi
Posted in LuxSci Library: Email Programs and Devices, TechNotes
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Tagging items has become one of the hallmarks of modern web applications. Delicious and FireFox allow you to tag your bookmarks, Facebook lets you tag people in photos. Flickr supports tagged pictures. Blogs permit you to tag your posts. The list goes on and on.
Tags are incredibly useful because they enable categorization of items in a dynamic and natural way. Items can have multiple tags and you can make them up yourself as you go, so that they are meaningful to you and in the context in which you are working.
The odd thing is that tags are not yet very prevalent in most mainstream email programs (except perhaps Gmail) and collaboration tools like contacts, calendars, etc. This is where LuxSci jumps in. LuxSci has had full tag support since June, 2007; in recent months, tagging has become easier and more powerful due to updates to our GUI (graphical user interface).
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Tags: address book, ajax, calendar, collaboration, collaboration tools, color, color code, global tags, imap, imap keywords, mozilla thunderbird, organize, shared folders, tag, tasks, webaides, webmail
Posted in Business Solutions
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Have you ever wanted to add a note to an email for yourself or someone else? The digital age has seen the paper-clipped note go the way of the dinosaur. Today’s software programs may offer electronic notes and comments, but none specifically for email that is also shareable across programs. Until now. LuxSci has a feature in WebMail to add notes to messages that can be viewed by everyone and in most email programs.
Except for Thunderbird and a few others, we are not aware of an email client that lets you make "notes" on email messages… and those that do are only visible in program that created them and not by anyone else looking at the message via IMAP or WebMail. We got to thinking of how useful a note would be that is part of the email message and viewable by anyone, in any email program. The LuxSci email note literally "sticks" with the message as it is forwarded to someone or copied/moved to another email folder.
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Tags: annotation, email annotation, email notes, imap, message annotation, note, shared email, tags, thunderbird, webmail
Posted in Business Solutions
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
LuxSci supports a plethora of modern email programs like Microsoft Outlook and Eudora (our blog posting “Head To Head Battle of Email Clients” discuss several of these) and works with any email program and device that properly supports POP, IMAP, or SMTP. However, we do recommend Mozilla Thunderbird in the absence of any personal preferences or specific requirements for things that may only be supported in Outlook or other specific programs. LuxSci’s staff uses Thunderbird with IMAP (or WebMail) uniformly for all email sending and receiving. We discuss the reasons why in the “Battle” blog article. Here, we will give some configuration tips and tricks and recommended add-ons.
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Tags: caldav, configuration, enigmail, imap, imap keywords, iPod, mozilla, optimize, secure authentication, setup, signatures, ssl, tags, thunderbird, tls, webdav
Posted in LuxSci Library: Email Programs and Devices, TechNotes
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
As an email hosting service, we at LuxSci are frequently asked about email clients. We would like to share with you of our expertise and opinions about the most popular email clients. We’ve created a quick guide to email programs that includes an explanation of the client, its major features, and what makes it stand out.
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Tags: aes, alpine, encryption, enigmail, entourage, eudora, imap, imap keywords, kmail, mac, mail.app, microsoft outlook, Outlook Express, pgp, pim, pine, pop, s/mime, smtp, tags, thunderbird, vista, windows live mail, windows mail
Posted in LuxSci Library: Email Programs and Devices, TechNotes
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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
Tags: archival, dvd, email, export, imap
Posted in Business Solutions
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