We see this all of the time — business owners who have been using free email addresses at domains like comcast.net, aol.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, etc., who want to start using their own domain name for email (e.g. switching from “dr_fred@aol.com” to “fred@the-doctor-is-in.com”).

While such a change is very desirable for many reasons, people are often uncertain as to how to make the change efficiently and at at the same time not lose any important business email.

This article covers common questions and solutions for making such a move.

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The Beta period is over! LuxSci now offers its Mobile Sync service to all new and existing customers.

Mobile Sync provides real-time automatic synchronization of your LuxSci Calendars, Address Books, and Tasks with your mobile device(s).  Premium Mobile Sync also includes outbound email and Push Email for real-time email updates without the significant battery drain that IMAP and POP incur.  Mobile Sync is:

• Quick and easy to setup (easier than setting up a regular email account on your phone)
• Fast and reliable
• Very secure (available for use in HIPAA accounts).

New customers can select “Mobile Sync” when customizing their order/package.  Existing customers can add Mobile Sync using the “Upgrade Wizard” in their account administration area.

Read more: Mobile Sync at LuxSci.

Please contact LuxSci Sales if you have any questions.

LuxSci has released several significant enhancements to its email and WebAides collaboration tools services that enable users to use “tags” more extensively to manage, categorize, and sort through their information.

For a long time, LuxSci has provided users with the ability to use tags to label and color code email messages, address books entries, documents, etc.  For details on LuxSci’s tag usage in general, see:

• Email Message Tagging  and Color Coding in WebMail
• Tag, you’re it! Productivity through tagging and color coding

Tags at LuxSci have been enhanced with the following features.

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LuxSci has made some notable enhancements to its web-based user interface:

• LuxSci now supports some of the new features of FireFox v3.5 and Internet Explorer v8.0 that improve the speed of our web interface (native JSON processing).

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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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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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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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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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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 optimized our Xpress WebMail portal with a mobile-centric interface inspired by the iPhone and come out with MobileSync push email and contact/calendar sync services that work beautifully with iPhone and other mobile devices.  Many of our clients use an iPhone or other Internet-enabled mobile device with our email services. The time seems right to share some of our knowledge and experience with iPhones.

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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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