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WebMail Email Composition Improved

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

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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Tagging is now Quicker and Easier!

Friday, April 9th, 2010

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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Deferred Email: Get Those Messages Out of My Sight, I’ll Look at Them Later!

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

LuxSci has just introduced a new featured called “Deferred Email Messages”.  With deferred messages, you can select message(s), in any email folder, have them removed from that folder and automatically returned to the folder at a later date and time.

If, like me, you use your INBOX as a “to do list”, this is a big help.  You no longer have to keep old messages hanging around for a long time until you “deal with them”.  Now, you can defer them, specifying exactly when you would like to see them again.  They are moved away and automatically returned at that time.  This keeps your INBOX (and other active folders manageable).

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WebMail: Faster Automatic Folder Checking

Friday, March 19th, 2010

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.

You Have New Mail – Audible Alerts in LuxSci WebMail

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Users of LuxSci’s WebMail have a new message notification – sound! When the LuxSci WebMail interface detects that new messages have arrived,* the interface will play a “new email” sound to alert the user of the new messages.

No, it does not actually say “You Have New Mail” — it plays a simple, standard Windows notification sound by default.  However, you can upload your own sound file (in your Preferences area) so that the reminder tone can be anything that you like.  Your custom sound file can be an mp3, wav, or mid file and can be up to 250KB in size. If you do not like sound effects, you have the option to turn them off in your Preferences.

Sound effects work in all of our supported browsers: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

*The sound will be played when new email is detected in your current folder, your INBOX, or any of your “QuickCheck” folders — as all of these folders are automatically checked for new messages every minute or so.

WebMail Gets Wings

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Faster WebMail access!  LuxSci’s WebMail solution has been enhanced to make access to email folders much faster. The response time and usage of WebMail is now much closer to that of a desktop email program.

How did we do it? In addition to recent hardware upgrades, we have implemented some aggressive data “caching” mechanisms to make sure that your message data is ready for you when you want it.  This includes:

  • Pre-caching: As soon as you access an email folder’s status, i.e. from your login Welcome page or from WebMail itself, LuxSci’s Web Mail application will automatically (and in the background) read the contents of your folder and get it ready for quick access.  Thus, when you go check your folder or page among your messages, the messages will likely have already been prepared for you and access to them will be very fast.
  • Long-term caching: LuxSci’s WebMail application keeps your cached message data ready for you for up to 7 days after your last access to each folder.  So even if you do not check your email for a few days, when you return access will remain fast.
  • Progress Feedback: When WebMail requires time to process your email message data before displaying it to you (i.e. because it is the first time you have accessed a folder in a long while, or because the folder is very large), you will see a progress bar that gives you visual feedback on the progress of that operation.  No more wondering “how long is this going to take?”
  • Unread Messages: Determining the number of unread messages in a folder has been optimized to be up to 35x faster.  This makes folder status checks much quicker and lighter on the system overall.

Restrict User WebMail Access by IP

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Block AccessAdministrators of LuxSci accounts now have the ability to specify exactly from what locations their users are permitted to login to WebMail.  I.e. administrators can choose to allow WebMail access only from the Office or certain other places.  This is good for general account and information security.

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New Features: Email Folder Widget

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

LuxSci has added many new features to the email folder display widget.  The email folder widget is available to all LuxSci customers whose email is hosted with LuxSci.  This widgets can be added to any workspace so that the contents of any email folders, even shared ones, can be viewed and managed along side other information such as address books, calendars, notes, file storage areas, blogs, custom widgets, etc.

The email folder widget has been updated to include:

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Tracing the Origin of an Email Message — and Hiding it

Monday, January 4th, 2010

We are often asked by our users to help  them determine from where an email message has originated.  In general, it is fairly easy to do this if you have access to the “headers” of the message.  In this post, we will show you how to determine a message’s original location yourself and also how you can protect yourself from others determining your location when you send email messages to them.

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Strip Attachments from Email Messages in LuxSci WebMail

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Delete AttachmentsLuxSci WebMail now allows users to delete or strip attachments from email message(s), keeping the rest of the email message content. This saves space and makes your email faster.

I.e., lets say that your friend sent you a message and attached 20 pictures.  You could use the “Download all attachments” option to save these pictures in bulk to your computer, then the new “Delete attachments” option to remove them all from the message, keeping online just your friend’s message text and not the sizable attachments.

“Delete Attachments” can be found in the “Message” submenu in WebMail and can be applied to all selected messages — i.e. you can delete attachments from many messages at once.

Note that users can also create custom email filters that auto-delete attachments from messages meeting certain criteria upon arrival to their accounts.

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