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LuxSci: Secure, Premium Email and Web Services

Professional Email Hosting: Features

LuxSci provides a comprehensive set of features with its email hosting services. These are described below. Click on the "more..." links to read more about the individual features.

Featured Email Services

IMAP, POP, SMTP, & WebMail: Send and receive email from anywhere using your favorite email client or web browser.
Basic Spam & VirusFiltering, Custom Email Filtering, and Premium Spam & Virus Filtering.
Security: IMAP, POP, and SMTP over SSL, and secure WebMail.
Privacy: A strict privacy policy and Anonymous SMTP.
Xpress Portal: Alternate WebMail interface that doesn't use cookies or JavaScript, and that works great with slow connections or on old browsers!
Web Aides: Versatile online calendar, task manager, address book, journal, bulletin board, file storage, notes, password management, and collaboration software.
Service Level Guarantee: Our service level agreement guarantees our service uptime and robustness.

General Features

High Speed Internet
A multi-homed network with DS3 to OC12 connections through AT&T;, Qwest, Sprint, Time Warner, UUNET, and WilTel provides fast, reliable connectivity.

Conditioned Power
Redundant N+1 UPS power supplies and an on-site diesel generator can run indefinitely.

Technology
We use: RedHat Enterprise Linux, Apache, MySQL, sendmail, UW IMAP (mbx folders), Procmail, and PGP. WebMail and Infrastructure software developed by LuxSci.

Service Level Agreement more...
LuxSci guarantees 99.9%+ availability of shared web and email hosting services. Any failure by LuxSci to provide this level of availability can be remedied by credits to affected customers' accounts.

Daily Data Backups more...
Daily and weekly backups. One free restore/month.

User Disk Quotas more...
Impose optional per-user hard disk quotas to control user disk usage.

Redundant Disk Subsystems
We use redundant disk subsystems (Hot Swappable SCSI RAID 5) to protect your data against the possibility of disk failure. In the case of disk hardware failure, your servers will keep running as usual and we can replace the affected disks with zero downtime and zero data loss.

Secure Control Panel more...
Complete account management. 24/7 account upgrades. Delegate administrative tasks to users on a per-domain basis. Account automation API for secure remote account management. Much more.

Web Aides    ($) more...
Intranet and personal information management tools enabling you to store and share information within the universally-accessible LuxSci members' web portal. Web Aides include: Calendars, Address Books, Tasks, eJournals, Document Managers, Notes, Password Managers, Link Managers, User Groups, and more.

Private Labeled Interface    ($) more...
Customize our portal for your company or group. Various levels of branding available. We even support use of your own SSL certificates and domain names.

Email Hosting Features

Custom Email Filter Definitions more...
Create any number of custom procmail-based email filtering rules using our web-based interface.

Import POP Email more...
Automatically download email From other accounts to LuxSci via POP. Supports forwarding downloaded messages through all of your email, anti-Spam, and anti-Virus filters.

Inbound Email Proxy Servers more...
Protection against email bombs, mass mailing viruses, and denial of service attacks.

Email Auto-Responders more...
Web configurable auto-responders support HTML-formatted responses. Configure multiple responders for different email addresses.

Email Forwarding more...
Users can forward email to up to 5 recipient addresses. Users can also choose to have copies if the forwarded email delivered locally.

User Login Auditing and Tracking
View your and your users' IMAP, POP, SMTP, and WebMail login histories. Includes IP addresses, if the connections were secure, etc. Login histories kept for 30 days.

Email Folder Auto-Deletion
Optionally configure email folders to auto-delete "old" email based on message age, number of messages in the folder, or folder size. This keeps folders "pruned".

Email Folder Auto-Archival more...
Optionally configure email folder contents to be moved to a new date-stamped folder weekly, monthly, or when the folder exceeds a specified size. Keep dated archives of all messages without having excessively large folders.

Archive all Outbound/Inbound Email more...
Optionally have copies of all inbound and/or outbound email for a domain forwarded to an email address of your choice for backup, archival, or auditing purposes.

Download Email Folders as ZIP Files more...
Download email folders of any size as a compressed ZIP archive. The messages in this archive are stored in the simple and relatively universal "UNIX" format (though we don't use this format for your live email storage).

Compatible With Your Email Client
LuxSci's email services are compatible with any email programs that support POP, IMAP, or SMTP. We provide step-by-step setup instructions for many popular clients such as: Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape, The Bat!, Mutt, Pine, Entourage, etc; we also provide general instructions for configuring other email clients.

Unlimited Domains    (d)
You can include an unlimited number of domains in your account. There is no charge for additional domains unless we manage their DNS settings.

POP & Secure POP    ($) more...
Access your email over POP3 and POP3 over SSL.

IMAP & Secure IMAP    ($) more...
Access your email over IMAP and IMAP over SSL.

SMTP & Secure SMTP    ($) more...
LuxSci provides SMTP Relaying so that you can send email from email programs. We also provide secure SMTP via STARTTLS and SSL via several alternate ports, including port 80, to use in case your ISP or organization is restricting SMTP use.

Anonymous SMTP    ($) more...
Remove all information about your sending computer (its IP address) and email client when sending messages. Available over TLS as well for security. Available to all clients who subscribe to SMTP services.

Email Defense: Virus & Spam Filter    ($) more...
Stop over 98% of Spam; Virus definitions updated every 5 minutes; Incredibly low false positive rate; Content and attachment filtering; Quarantined email doesn't use up your disk space. Includes Symantec Brightmail, Sophos, McAfee, and much more.

Basic Spam/Virus Filtering    ($) more...
Less expensive and simpler procmail-based Spam- and Virus-filtering solution. Web-configurable. Based on SpamAssassin and Clam AntiVirus.

Email Aliases    (d) more...
Unlimited web-configurable aliases, catch-all aliases, delete aliases, and bounce aliases with custom bounce messages. LuxSci also supports "domain forwarding" catch-all aliases, i.e. *@domain1.com -> *@domain2.com, to have one domain's addresses forward to the respective addresses at another domain.

WebMail Features

Secure over SSL
We protect your username, password, and data by providing secure connections to your WebMail.

Xpress Interface more...
Alternate WebMail interface is fast, secure, compatible with more browsers. No JavaScript, cookies, or graphics required.

Email Folders more...
Hierarchical, searchable, IMAP-compatible. Concurrent user access supported. Auto-archival, Auto-deletion, and folder downloading also supported.

IMAP Compatibility
View all IMAP folders. Also, optionally enable IMAP-style "delete first then expunge later", or use the default "delete and expunge at the same time" modes.

Many Standard WebMail Features
  • Send any number of attachments
  • Forward messages as attachments
  • Spell checking
  • View complete message source
  • Save/resume compositions using a Drafts folder
  • Request and respond to read receipts
  • Set and view importance-level and flags on messages
  • View images attached to your messages inline.
  • View / download attachments.
  • View complete email message headers.
  • Sort messages by date, sender, subject, size, and more


Signatures: Custom Reply-To/From more...
Configure any number of signatures with custom signature text, reply-to and from addresses.

Address Books more...
Extremely featureful personal and shared Address Books. Fully compatible with Outlook, Mozilla, Netscape, and most popular email clients. Advanced import and export wizards supporting CSV files.

Calendars more...
Extremely featureful personal and shared Calendars. Compatible with Outlook and supporting reminders, recurrence, and more. Advanced import and export wizards supporting CSV files.

International Email Support more...
Send and receive email in any language or character encoding. Support for multiple character encodings in on message. Automatically translate incoming or outgoing email into many different languages.

Automatic Email Checking
Have WebMail auto-refresh every 5 minutes to re-check your email. Pop-up mini-windows alert you of new messages even if your WebMail window is minimized.

Compose Email Using HTML
Use your choice of plain text, basic HTML, or advanced HTML editors when composing email messages in WebMail. HTML editors available to users of Internet Explorer v5.5+. HTML editors permit easy visual markup of messages as well as HTML source editing.

Private Labeled Interface    ($) more...
Customize our portal for your company or group. Various levels of branding available. We even support use of your own SSL certificates and domain names.

($)  Feature or service requires a per-user, per-license, or other fee.
(d)  Feature requires that the account holder has one or more of his/her own domain names at LuxSci.
Client Testimonial

I wanted to congratulate you on your service; the reduction in Spam is incredible, and the speed of delivery is stunning. I am recommending you to all of my friends and associates! You can quote me on that!
- Victor Pikula, CTO of Mobile Media International

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