Business Email Hosting

LuxSci supports many versions of all popular email clients (though we recommend using the latest version of each product if possible), both licensed and shareware. If you use a lesser known email client, we should be able to help you configure it as long as the program supports either IMAP or POP, plus SMTP.

Blackberries, iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, Androids, Windows Mobile, and Palm WebOS are some of the more popular mobile devices available to professionals. LuxSci supports all of these phones, as well as any other phone or PDA that properly supports the IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols. If your phone doesn't support these protocols but does have a mobile web browser, you have the option to access your email using LuxSci's Mobile Site or login to our standard portal using our "Narrow Mode Interface".

LuxSci's Premium Mobile Sync service includes "Push Email" for email viewing, real-time pushing of new email to your device, as well as for sending of outbound email from your device through LuxSci's servers.

Push email is good for mobile battery longevity and for getting notifications of new email messages as fast as possible.

WebMail is designed to work much like a desktop email program.

• Web 2.0 / AJAX
• Automated checking for new email and folder changes every 30s
• Automatic loading and display of new email
• Drag and drop attachments
• Drag and drop copy and move of messages
• Lots of customization preferences
• View shared email from multiple accounts in one screen
• Automatic concurrent checking for new email in multiple folders

LuxSci's WebMail interface ALWAYS gives you secure access to your email from any computer or mobile device with Internet access (via SSL with Extended Validation) unless you specify otherwise. WebMail is fully supported in Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome. Our Mobile Site, which is a lightweight version of WebMail, is ideal for accessing email using the browser in your mobile phone or for extra security, privacy and simplicity.

WebMail supports Two-Factor authentication (simple via a Google Authenticator, text message, email, or advanced via integration with www.Duo.com), IP access restrictions, and more.

LuxSci provides a standard, full-featured, Web 2.0 WebMail interface (a.k.a the "Full Site"). For the sake of usability and feature richness, this full-featured portal makes extensive use of graphics, cookies, JavaScript, HTML5 and some features of modern web browsers to enhance the user experience. It is also designed for a wide screen viewing area.

The software requirements that make the full-featured portal good-looking and easy to use also have their down sides. The "Mobile Site" is the solution to these concerns:

Access the Mobile Site automatically with a mobile browser by visiting: https://xpress.luxsci.com

• Blazing Speed: If you have a slow Internet connection or limited bandwidth, the Mobile Site offers faster service. It has been optimized to use less bandwidth, which makes the pages smaller in size, faster to download, and easier to read on your mobile device.
• Mobile Devices and Narrow Screens: The Mobile Site will work with almost any mobile device, tablet, or PDA that has a web browser. We work tirelessly to ensure the quality of Mobile site pages, especially on smaller screens.

We provide you with online tools for creating, deleting, renaming, managing, and searching your email folders.

• Supports any number of folders
• Folders can contain messages and/or other folders
• Folders are accessible via WebMail and IMAP
• Remove Duplicates: Configure removal of duplicate messages in any folder based on message ID, subject, sender address and size. Message removal can run automatically on a nightly basis or manually at any time at the push of a button.
• Auto-deletion: Configuration options allow you to automatically remove "old" messages in any folder to: 1. Reduce the folder size to some fixed maximum 2. Reduce the number of messages in the folder to some fixed maximum 3. Eliminate messages older than a specified number of days.
• Auto-Archival: Archival options can be designed to your specific needs. The function can occur as you prefer; daily, weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, yearly or when YOU feel the folder has exceeded desired storage size of message allotment. You can even have a folder auto-archived; which will move messages to a new dated subfolder at your convenience.
• Offline Storage: Download your email folders as ZIP-compressed archive in UNIX- or EML-format for offline storage.
• Create, rename, move, and delete folders and directories.
• Concurrent Access: Makes it easy to share access to email by allowing multiple users, using different email clients, access to the same email folders concurrently without issue.

When composing email messages, WebMail will automatically give you recipient suggestions by searching all of your address books for matches; in the name, company, email and nickname fields. You can alter, eliminate or add to these suggestions via keyboard or mouse. This WebMail feature makes it quick and easy to enter recipient email addresses and avoid making errors.

WebMail signatures allow you to add personality to your email. In addition to adding a signature to the end of your messages, you can customize the sending name and address. This is ideal if you have many different email addresses [not all of which are hosted at LuxSci] and need to send email (from a single WebMail application) that appears to come from any one of them.

• Unique signature technology; similar to other services' "personalities".
• Support for unlimited signatures.
• Each signature has independent HTML and plain text versions.
• HTML signatures support embedded images
• With Signatures you can include files that will attach to all messages sent using those signatures (e.g. add a vCard or a PDF with all messages).
• Determine whom your email appears to be from (you specify the From address and name; From name can be in any language).
• Determine to whom replies to your email will be sent (you specify the Reply-to address).
• If you reply to an email, WebMail will try to match the recipient address of the email to one of your signatures so that you automatically use the right signature for the right email -- no mistakes.
• Change your signature "on the fly" in WebMail and have the signature content automatically updated in the message.
• Use signatures either at the top of or at the bottom of replies and forwards.

Use of signatures to send emails forged with addresses that you do not have permission to use is a violation of our Acceptable Use Policy.

LuxSci's WebMail interface fully supports sending and receiving email messages in any language or multiple languages:

• View messages encoded in any language or languages.
• Compose messages in any language or languages.
• Configure default encodings to use when none are specified.
• Support for encoded content in subject and sender name fields.
• UTF-8 Unicode is used throughout our site.
• Our user interface is translated into many different languages.

LuxSci WebMail is designed for optimized work with dozens of languages such as: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Hebrew, Portuguese, and many more.

Additionally, WebMail allows you to configure:

• Preferred time zone
• Preferred date and time format
• Week start day

WebMail's feature-rich options include:

• International Email Support: Send and receive secure email in any language or character encoding. Support for multiple character encodings in one message.
• Security: WebMail is fully integrated with our SecureLine end-to-end email encryption service.
• Full, robust HTML email composition supported in Internet Explorer v9+, FireFox, Opera, and Safari
• Automatically checks for new email in multiple folders.
• Spell checking in real time as you type. This feature supports multiple languages and customized user dictionaries. (Uses the SCAYT Text and HTML spell checking technology from SpellChecker.net.
• Defer email messages: hide messages in any folder and have them re-appear at later scheduled times for action.
• WebMail composition: Auto-save your work so you never lose a message in progress.
• Full screen viewing mode
• Automatic checking of your INBOX for new email
• Plain Text and HTML Email Templates
• Send any number of attachments
• Forward messages inline or as attachments
• Delete attachments from messages
• Save/resume compositions using a Drafts folder
• Request and respond to Read Receipts
• Set and view importance-level and flags on messages
• View images and HTML attached to your messages inline
• View/download attachments
• View complete email message headers
• View complete message source
• Download individual messages
• Sort messages by date, sender, subject, size, and more
• Address Books, personal and shared, are integrated with WebMail.
• A large number of personal preferences allow you to tweak WebMail to behave just the way you want it to. Some of these include:
  • Six different selectable layouts of the folder tree, message list, and message display areas
  • Choose destination of deleted messages: remove, mark as deleted and/or save to a trash folder
  • Customize both the information that displays in your message list and the order in which the information is displayed
  • Customize if message previews are used and if HTML and image content is displayed automatically inline
  • Many, many more -- get a Free Trial and see them all.

LuxSci provides SMTP Relaying so that you can send email from email programs (WebMail does not require "SMTP" service to send email).

• Secure SMTP via TLS and SSL, plus insecure SMTP
• Alternate Ports for secure and insecure SMTP -- including port 80 -- which is open in most firewalls.
• All of our email servers support TLS and will talk securely with other servers whenever possible (opportunistic TLS).
• Anonymous SMTP: Remove all information about your sending computer (its IP address) and email client when sending messages. This feature is available over SSL and TLS as well for email security. It is available to all clients who subscribe to SMTP services. More about Anonymous SMTP
• More about SMTP

Users can:

• Send copies of all outbound email to a designated email address
• Send copies of all outbound email messages to a server-side sent email folder (without IMAP)

Domain administrators can:

• Send copies of all outbound emails, from all users, to a designated email address. Certain users can be exempted from this process.

Global taglines or disclaimers in text and/or HTML cab be configured to appear at the end of all messages sent by your users.

• Applies to messages sent via WebMail and from email programs using SMTP.
• Configurable on a per-domain basis
• Taglines/disclaimers can be added as attachments or added as part of the message content itself.

Monitor the content of all messages sent from WebMail or from email programs using SMTP.

• Search for keywords or key phrases
• Use regular expressions
• Searches all HTML and plain text message parts
• Search your choice of the message subject, message body content, or both
• Can block messages, send copies of matching messages to an auditor email address, or auto-encrypt matching messages

LuxSci's authenticated SMTP services can be used as a "smart host", which allows users to relay all email from your internal server though our servers for processing before being sent out into the Internet.

With smart hosting, you can take advantage of all of LuxSci's SMTP features, such as automatic outbound email encryption, anonymization, taglines and content monitoring.

Our "Intelligent" Smart host feature treats your email as if it were sent by your individual users. It looks at the "From" address on each message, rather than the single user connecting to LuxSci's SMTP services. This permits enforcement of per-user SMTP limits, per-user reporting on SMTP usage, per-user customization of taglines, per-user exemptions from some tools, and full support SecureLine automatic end-to-end outbound email encryption.

Intelligent smarthost is included with our standard SMTP service.

View your own plus your users' IMAP, POP, SMTP, and WebMail login and connection histories for up to 30 days if you have administrative access.

Email auto-responders let you setup pre-defined responses to email messages that you receive while you are away -- out of the office, on vacation, or otherwise unavailable. They also allow for the configuration of complex automated response rules.

Features include:

• Automatic response to incoming email messages.
• Different responses based on to which of your email addresses or domains the message is addressed
• Configure responses based on arbitrary criteria such as: sender address, subject content, body content, email header content, etc.
• Sign the replies with your signatures.
• Specify the subject line and body of each reply.
• Activate and deactivate the auto-responders manually or set a scheduled time window for activation and de-activation.
• Enable "nags" to notify you that your responder is still enabled after a specified date.
• HTML-formatted or plain text-formatted response content.
• Configurable time window during which senders will not get duplicate responses for multiple messages sent.
• Rate limits so that the same sender does not receive too many responses from you and so that your responders cannot be used to create denial of service situations.
• Customer-accessible audit trails of all responses sent. Includes when, to whom, for what responder, and what the subject of the original message was.

An email alias is not an actual user, but rather a rule that indicates to whom the email should be delivered. Individual users can also configure email forwarding for their inbound email.

Features include:

• Catch-all aliases to capture email to non-existent address at your domain.
• Redirect email to any address at your domain to one or multiple real local or remote email address(es).
• Redirect email to multiple addresses at once. (Limit: 25 addresses or the number of users in your account, whichever is larger).
• Lots of aliases; change them anytime you wish via our secure online tools or our API.
• Domain Forwarding Catch All Aliases allow you to forward any address at one domain, "domain1.com", to the same user at a second domain, "domain2.com".
• Powerful Alias Manager has search features that allow easy management and reporting on thousands of aliases across hundreds of domains.
• Aliases can: forward email to one or more recipient addresses, send custom email bounce messages, and automatically delete all incoming email.
• User Groups WebAides can be used to create and manage distribution lists to selected groups of users in your account.

If you have other email accounts with POP access, you can download messages from these remote accounts to your LuxSci email folders.

Features Include:

• Store information for an unlimited number of remote POP email accounts
• Download mail from each account to any email folder
• Have your email downloaded automatically every 20 minutes
• Use your inbound email, anti-Spam, and anti-Virus filters, including Premium Email Filtering to filter downloaded messages before forwarding to your LuxSci account. This is a great solution when your remote email account doesn't permit email forwarding but you want to download and filter those messages.
• Delete or leave the remote email on the remote server when downloading manually. Messages are deleted from the server with automatic message downloads.
• Optionally preview messages before downloading: select what to download or delete.
• Download email from one or ALL remote accounts individually or at once.
• Secure POP (SSL) connections to remote POP servers.
• Use "Signatures" to manage multiple email accounts.
• Full support of previewed email messages with text in most languages.

• When the message was sent
• Who sent it and from what address
• What the subject was
• The address of the recipient that failed
• Exactly why the delivery failed

These email alerts are HTML for easy reading and include a CSV (Excel) file with all of the data for easy analysis. With these reports you can always be aware of failed deliveries and do not have to worry about getting and reading bounce messages. You can configure these reports so that managers can get copies of the failure reports for users and thus can ensure that important messages are all properly delivered.