Now that LuxSci supports OpenID as an option for logging into WebMail, it raises the questions: "Just how secure is OpenID?" and "Does this new technology allow for more secure logins?" In short, the security of OpenID can vary from very poor to extremely iron-clad. OpenID does allow you to make your logins to WebMail "bullet-proof", if you set things up appropriately.
LuxSci now allows users to login to its WebMail, Affiliate, and SecureSend portals using an OpenID. This feature can make logins faster, simpler, and even more secure by:
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.
The situation: you send and receive email messages via many different email addresses (aka "you have multiple email personality syndrome") via a single login. I.e. email from several work and personal addresses are all forwarded to your main email address, so you get all your email in the same account. Very convenient, but…
LuxSci has released several improvements to its WebMail and WebAides user interfaces that add to your productivity and are more user friendly and powerful. The most significant changes include:
LuxSci has had many requests for a feature where account administrators can restrict users to a well-defined set of email recipients. This is very useful, for example, when setting up email for a specific purpose such as internal communications within a business or association, or in an educational or home setting to control where email is sent by minors.
LuxSci has supported the specification and use of unlimited signatures (i.e. personalities) in WebMail for many years. LuxSci’s signatures allow you to customize the from and reply addresses, as well as to add text or HTML "signature" content to your email messages.
As a result of many client feature requests, LuxSci has made some significant usability and functionality improvements to its WebMail Signatures. These include:
One of our most requested features of late has been to support the "auto-completion" of email addresses when users are entering To, Cc, and Bcc addresses into email messages. While LuxSci has always had an address "picker" where users could choose addresses from their address books via a small pop-up window, that required a click to activate, some effort to search for the addresses, and then a click to close.
Users really wanted suggestions from their address books automatically presented to them, as happens in most modern email programs such as Outlook and Thunderbird, in a way that doesn’t require them to click or "do anything" and where selecting from the list could be as easy as pressing a single key.
LuxSci now fully supports Google’s Chrome web browser in its WebMail Interface. Chrome is built on the same foundation as Apple’s Safari web browser, but is optimized for use with high performance, modern, web-based applications such as LuxSci’s WebMail and collaboration interfaces. We find that Chrome is an exceptionally fast and responsive browser to use.