New Features Blog
We at LuxSci are constantly upgrading our offerings to keep up with the
cutting edge in email and web services and technology. We consider all
customer requests closely, and, when possible, implement them quickly.
Here is a selected list of recent events and feature implementations that
have contributed to our comprehensive email and web hosting services.
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October, 2008
October 8, 2008
Medical Privacy: LuxSci has a new Business Associate
addendum to its Master Services Agreement that covers medical privacy
concerns for all clients that are subject to the HIPAA regulations.
This contract addendum is automatically included by reference in the
contracts for all new accounts. It is also available to any existing
account that would like to have it added to its current contract.
Download the PDF.
August, 2008
August 30, 2008
Maximal Security with the Push of a Button: LuxSci
now provides account administrators with a "Maximum Security" button that
allows them, in one click, to configure all of the options in their
account to settings that ensure maximal security. This configures such
things as forced use of SSL, strong passwords, and forced use of
SecureLine (if you have purchased it) with S/MIME certificates. This
option is available in the "Advanced Account Administration" area.
Account managers can also contact support to have these settings
"Locked Down" so that noone in the account can alter them without
contacting support directly, getting approval, and leaving an audit
trail.
If you want maximal email security and the assurance that it is setup
correctly and cannot be circumvented, this is for you.
Address Book User Interface Overhaul: The user
interface for the WebAide Address Books has been completely re-written for
both the regular and Xpress portals. The overhaul in the regular portal
makes the Address Books look and work like our AJAX-based webmail and
takes advantage of modern browser features like browser storage. In the
Xpress portal, the address book interface has been simplified,
streamlined, and made to look and work well on the narrow screens of
mobile devices.
Some of the notable improvements in address books include:
- Fast user interface integrated with WebMail
- View, search, and sort the entries of any combination of
address books. Page through all entries instantly.
- Once you view your address books, they are remembered by your
browser. Thus, returning to your address books later
will be very fast.
- Use drag and drop to move or copy entries from one address book
to another.
- Use in-page dialog boxes to move or copy entries to another
address book or a new address books.
- Edit or create new entries in a popup that works just like the
new email message creation window.
- Create many simple new entries quickly with our in-page
"quick new" dialog box.
- Reformat the titles of some or all entries quickly
- View subscribed and unsubscribed address books in a tree interface
just like folders are viewed in the email interface.
- Subscribe to and unsubscribe from address books directly from the
new interface (you no longer have to go to a WebAide management
screen for this).
- Full screen viewing modes
- Printable entry views
- Send email messages easily to selected contacts
- Enhanced advanced search options
- Easily export (to CSV or vCard) entire address books or just
the matches to your search.
- Create new address books directly from the address book viewing
interface.
- Use short-cut keyboard commands to perform common actions (like
new, copy, delete, etc.).
- Licensed WebAide users can now add attachments to any
address book entry. Attachments are no longer limited in
size or the number that you can add to an entry.
Of course, our other great features like global and explicit sharing,
synchronization with Outlook, LDAP access, etc., are all still there.
Over the next several months, LuxSci will be converting all of the
other WebAides (i.e. calendars, tasks, documents, etc.) into a similar
fast and well-integrated modern interface. We will also be updating their
Xpress portal interfaces (As well as that of Xpress email) to work well on
the small screens of mobile phones.
Minor WebMail Enhancements: The WebMail email
interface has been enhanced with in-page dialog boxes for creating new
folders and for moving and copying messages. Also, a "Logout" button has
been added to the WebMail toolbar when the user is in "Full Screen" mode
-- so that it is easier to logout in that mode.
July, 2008
July 12, 2008
Improved WebMail Performance: LuxSci has greatly improved the speed
and performance of its WebMail interface.
Fast Folder Trees: The WebMail folder tree and Help topic trees
can now be navigated with no delay as nodes are opened and closed.
Unsubscribed Folders: Users can now easily access shared but unsubscribed
email folders from the WebMail interface.
June, 2008
June 21, 2008
Improved User Interface: WebMail now features a new user interface designed to make it easier to customize the look and feel of your email. Rather than going into their preferences, users can now simply drag and drop to change what they see, with tabbed options to easily hide and show the email folder tree, message list, and message preview screens.
Improved Message Composition Interface: When composing a message, users now use a tabbed interface to go between the main message, attachments, options, and templates. The BCC line and the "More Options" areas are now automatically available via tab, instead of only through the preferences menu. Options for text, HTML, or advanced HTML messages are also tabbed, providing a more streamlined composition window, without any loss of functionality.
Improved Help Guide Interface: The Help guide now uses the same LuxSci UI to ease changing its appearance to meet your criteria. Settings for the folder tree automatically match those in the mail WebMail email view, so your folder tree is always the right size. Information that is important or personalized to a user's account will now be marked with a grey background for better visibility.
Full Support for Opera v9.5: Opera users will find that the new WebMail changes will be fully supported for their client.
Visual Settings: Now when composing messages, users can quickly see and change the message importance and SecureLine settings. Moving between messages in the message pane will also work more intuitively; moving to the previous/next message will continue beyond the current group of messages, rather than simply stopping.
June 6, 2008
vCard Format Support: LuxSci has added the ability to import and export address book entries in the vCard (.vcf)
file format to and from WebAide Address Books. Users of Apple Mail and Apple iPhone can
now synchronize their contact lists with their LuxSci Address Book without needing to
convert the file to a CSV.
Bulk Import/Export of Address Book SecureLine Data:
SecureLine users can now import and export PGP and S/MIME public keys associated with their
address book contacts via CSV. With this new feature, administrators have the ability to upload
all security data for all their users at once into a global address book without needing to manually
upload the public keys for each user individually.
May, 2008
May 5, 2008
Improved Look and Feel: LuxSci has improved the look and feel
of its WebMail interface by introducing revised Vista-like icon library
and by updating the presentation of many dialog boxes.
WebMail Tagging Improvements: WebMail now takes advantage of the
knowledge of what tags have been used previously on an email folder to
make the addition of new tags to messages easier and to make searching
for messages based on tag more intuitive.
Email Folder Management: The "properties" an an email folder
that you can access via the email folder management tool now pop-up in a
dialog box. This significantly enhances usability, simplifies the
presentation of the tool, and makes the interface more intuitive. Users
can now also edit the properties of an email folder directly from the
WebMail message list interface.
WebAide Management: The "properties" an a WebAide that you can
access via the WebAide management tool now pop-up in a dialog box. This
significantly enhances usability, simplifies the presentation of the tool,
and makes the interface more intuitive. Users can now also edit the
properties of a WebAide directly from the WebAide interface.
WebAide Import and Export: All of the import and
export functions of WebAides have been moved into the "Properties" page
for the WebAide, available in the WebAide management area. Now, all
administrative functions for WebAides are consolidated into that single
interface. Additionally, all WebAide exports now support the option to
only export those entries matching your most recent advanced search. Also,
you can now export WebAide eJournals, Links, Notes, and Documents as XML
and CSV files.
Improved Tag Management: The email message tag management dialog
box has been improved to make the addition and removal of tags faster
and easier. It is also now possible to create new tags right from
this dialog box.
WebAides Replace "Categories" with "Tags": WebAide
categories have been replaced with a "tagging" functionality identical to
that used in WebMail. This allows users to use the same add/remove tag
interface and the same list of tags with both WebMail messages and
WebAides entries (i.e. calendar items, address book entries, etc.). Unlike
with categories, tags no long have to be "pre-defined" to be used with a
WebAide and anyone who can edit an entry can tag it.
The option to display the list of entries in a WebAide by "category
index pages" has been removed; all WebAides can be filtered by Tag now
using the "View" selection, just like in WebMail.
WebAides "Tag" Features: WebAide users can now
remove tags, rename tags, and move entries from one tag to another using
the new "Tags" WebAide property editor.
April, 2008
April 21, 2008
Basic Spam Quarantine Reports:
Users of LuxSci's Basic Spam and Virus
Filtering Service who save spam and/or virus messages to a separate
folder will now receive daily emailed reports of "what is new" in those
folders so that they can easily see the status of their Spam and Virus
storage areas and detect any false positives. This report is optional,
though enabled by default.
Duplicate Message Removal:
LuxSci's email folder management tools have allowed users to remove
duplicate email messages from email folders using custom criteria for some
time. Now, users can remove duplicate email messages from the current
folder in directly the WebMail message list interface by selecting the new
"Remove Duplicate Messages" option from the "Folders" menu. This "do it
now" option will use your stored duplicate message criteria for the
current folder, if you have any, or common-sense defaults for what
generally constitutes a duplicate email message.
April 16, 2008
Bigger WebAide Attachments:
LuxSci's WebAides now accept attachments
up to 50 MB in size — increased from the previous limit of 15 MB.
April 5, 2008
MySQL v5 Support:
LuxSci now supports MySQL v5 databases for use by its web hosting clients.
LuxSci's infrastructure has also been updated so that future versions,
like MySQL v6, can be easily and quickly supported once released... even
if they are not backwards compatible with existing supported versions.
March, 2008
March 15, 2008
New Help Interface:
LuxSci has re-written its help interface from the ground up to provide a
much more user friendly experience. Some of the new features include:
natural language searching, bookmarking, commenting on help, printable help
pages, viewing a history of all pages you have recently seen, finding
articles similar to other articles, searchable PDF files, improved
determination of search relevance, and an improved organization of the help
documents into various "books" with hierarchical tables of contents.
New Support Ticketing Interface:
LuxSci has re-written its support ticketing interface from the ground up
to provide a much more user friendly experience. Some of the new features
include: automatically finding answers to your support ticket questions in
our help and adding attachments to support tickets.
Feature Improvements:
Several features have also been added or improved. These include:
- The HTML editor used when composing email messages now supports
Safari v3+ and Opera v9.5+
- When adding new users to accounts that employ our "basic spam and
virus filtering service", administrators can now enable the filter for
their users at creation time (even if the users are created in bulk).
February, 2008
February 26, 2008
The LuxSci Software Platform:
LuxSci's software solution: our software, your servers.
The LuxSci Platform is a version of the LuxSci Email and Web System designed
for you, the Customer, to be able to deploy and manage email and web systems
in your own datacenter(s) and supported by your staff. Each deployment of
the LuxSci Platform is custom tailored to meet your needs and offers
options for future revisions.
February 1, 2008
New User Taglines/Disclaimers:
LuxSci has introduced a new feature that allows individual users to
configure taglines/disclaimers that will apply to all email messages sent
from WebMail or SMTP. These individual taglines work as long as the
account administrator has not enabled a domain-wide tagline and works in
conjunction with WebMail or email signatures.
Account administrators also have the option of setting up individual
taglines or their users and can even restrict users from editing these
taglines themselves.
January, 2008
January 28, 2008
New WebAide Manager Tool:
LuxSci has revised its WebAide tools by extracting the administration and
management features from the individual WebAides and putting them in a
central "WebAide Manager" which works just like the "Email Folder Manager"
tool. This results in a simplified and unified WebAide administration
interface and simply way for you and your account administrators to manage
all of your WebAides in one place. This tool also enables Account
Administrators to view and configure a user's WebAides without access to
the actual private WebAide content.
January 24, 2008
Premium Email Archival Discount:
From now until March 31st, accounts who sign up for Premium Email
Archival with Storage Control will receive a price of $5.50/user/mo
instead of $8.00/user/mo. To take advantage of this off, all you have to
do is order ... the special price will be automatically granted.
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