Category: LuxSci Library: The Technical Side of Email

Ensuring all data is encrypted at rest with LuxSci

May 10, 2013

Email and other data are either being “transmitted” or “processed” or are “at rest.” I.e., it is moving from one computer to another, stored/at rest on a computer, or preparing to be transmitted or stored. While most types of compliance regulation, such as HIPAA, specifically require that data be transmitted securely, not all regulations require […]

Split Domain Routing: Getting Email for Your Domain at Two Providers

February 20, 2013

Split Domain Routing (SDR) is a term used to describe how users with email addresses in the same domain can receive emails at two different email service providers. For example, let’s say the company domain is “my-doctors-on-call.com,” and you are moving your email from Email Service Provider X to LuxSci. You have doctors Joe and […]

Everything You Wanted to Know about SSL Certificates

January 8, 2013

SSL certificates are pervasively used on the Internet for securing all the data sent between servers, devices, clouds, phones, computers, etc.  SSL certificates are intrinsic in the encryption of communications using  “SSL and TLS” (how do these work?  What is the difference?) — you can’t have secure communications without them! In this article, we answer many common […]

How to Open and Read .eml Email Files

August 22, 2012

Many email programs and services allow downloading and/or saving email messages in a format called “.eml”.  This format is very simple and very standard.  These are plain text files that hold one email message per file and which contain the full message headers and full MIME-encoded message content. LuxSci allows saving email messages from WebMail […]

Why does my email server appear to be blacklisted by Barracuda?

May 18, 2012

Sometimes you’ll get an email bounced back to you saying that your email server is blacklisted by Barracuda due to IP reputation even though you know your server is not blacklisted. An example of one such bounce is listed below.