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Outbound Email Monitoring

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

Account administrators can now enable monitoring of all outbound email sent by all users in their domains for specified content — keywords and phrases. Messages containing searched-for content are logged and can be BCC’ed to an auditing email address and/or blocked from being sent. Wild cards are supported and all subjects, bodies, text attachments, HTML attachments, and message attachments are searched (other types of attachments are not searched).This feature allows businesses to enforce policies about what types of information can be sent by email from their employees. Users affected by this monitoring are notified in our WebMail interface for privacy reasons.

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Email and Access Auditing Updates

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

LuxSci has for a long time tracked WebMail logins, POP connections, IMAP connections, and email messages sent via your email servers. You can view reports on these under the “My Profile” section of your account with LuxSci.LuxSci has made several updates to its facility for auditing user activity:

  • The “Login History Reports” section of “My Profile” has been renamed “Activity Auditing Reports” to reflect the more general nature of the reports that are contained therein.
  • LuxSci now tracks messages sent via WebMail. You will find a history of email messages that you have sent from WebMail under the WebMail reports in the “Activity Auditing Reports” section of “My Profile”. This allows you and your account administrators to see when and how many messages you have sent from WebMail, and to how many recipients these messages were sent. As a user, you can also view the subjects of these messages in the auditing reports; however, for privacy reasons, the message subjects are suppressed in the account administrator and technical support versions of your reports.
  • LuxSci now tracks the messages sent from your web sites. You can view a history of the messages sent from each of your web sites under the Web Site Configuration page for each of your sites. Depending on what kind of web site script sent the messages, these reports may track the IP addresses of the web site visitors that caused the messages to be sent and the path to the scripts that sent the messages. These reports allow you to see when and how your site is sending email messages and can be used to make sure that it is not being hijacked to send undesired email messages.
  • LuxSci now tracks the messages sent by users of its web servers. This includes messages sent by users with shell access, by CRON jobs running as individual users, and all other user-specific messages originating on the web servers that are not associated with a specific web site. If you have any kind of web server access, you can view reports of your web server message sending history under the “Activity Auditing Reports” section of “My Profile”.

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LuxSci Now Supports SMTP Over Port 80!

Wednesday, October 13th, 2004

LuxSci now supports sending of outbound email via secure and insecure SMTP over alternate port 80. While LuxSci has always supported many alternate ports for SMTP, use of port 80 will help many people who are behind very restrictive firewalls. Since almost all firewalls allow traffic over port 80 (which is necessary if you are to be able to view web sites), most users will be able to send outbound email through our servers even if they are behind such extremely strict firewalls.

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Secure Web Hosting Updates: Separate SSL Directory

Friday, September 24th, 2004

LuxSci now enables clients with secure web sites to optionally have the files served for the secure version of their site to be stored in a different directory than the files for the insecure version of their site. This feature allows clients to easily display different content on the secure and insecure versions of their web sites, providing enhanced security and usability.

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LuxSci Adds SMTPS Support Especially for Outlook Users

Friday, May 28th, 2004

LuxSci has for a long time supported authenticated secure SMTP via STARTTLS on port 25 and many alternate ports. However, because many ISPs block the standard outgoing email port of 25 and because Outlook and Outlook Express do not support secure SMTP via STARTTLS on ports other than port 25 (for some strange reason), Outlook users have sometimes had difficulty connecting to our servers securely to send email.

Now, LuxSci also supports authenticated SMTPS (SMTP directly over SSL on port 465) which is supported by Outlook, Outlook Express, and some other email clients. This feature allows users these programs to use send email securely on a port other than port 25, making it even easier to have comprehensive secure connections to our email servers from anywhere.

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