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Introducing catch-all email for Hushmail Business customers

Toby — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:16:07 +0000

We’re introducing a new feature today that we think will be useful for many of our Hushmail Business customers. Catch-all email allows you to choose one of your accounts to receive all email sent to email addresses that don’t exist on your domain.

For example, if your catch-all account is timmy@example.com, that’s where you’ll receive any email sent to accounts that haven’t been created, like tim@example.com or timothy@example.com.

You can use this feature to avoid losing emails when people misspell your name, or to easily accept all emails sent to common email addresses (sales@example.com, info@example.com, support@example.com, etc.) without creating or paying for those accounts.

To use catch-all email, sign in to Hushtools with your administrator account and click on View/change domain information, then Configure Domain. Enter the email address you would like to use as your catch-all account:

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask our Hushmail Business customer support team.

See more Hushmail Business features.

Detect unauthorized access to your Hushmail account by reviewing your recent login history

Toby — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:10:52 +0000

We’re often asked to have Hushmail display the last IP address that was used to access an account, so that people know if an unauthorized party has gained access to their passphrase. Today we’re launching a new feature that displays information about your recent Hushmail and Hushmail Mobile login history. We display the date and time of your previous 10 logins, your IP address and the location we think you signed in from. You can use this information to help detect unauthorized access to your account.

To access your recent login history, click the “Recent logins” link below your message list.

If you have any questions or feedback please feel free to get in touch with our customer support team.

If you would like this feature added to your Hushmail Business domain, please let us know.

We’re hiring a PHP & JavaScript developer in Vancouver, BC

Toby — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:23:16 +0000

We’re looking for a creative and experienced web application developer with strong programming skills, an interest in information security and a passion for creating enjoyable user experiences. You’ll be helping us build the next generation of our popular web-based secure email service, Hushmail.com. Your work will be seen by millions of people all over the world.

Christmas holiday hours

Hushmail.com — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:36:21 +0000

Our office will be closed the afternoon of Thursday, December 24th, 2009 (from 12:00 PM Pacific Time) and all day Friday, December 25th, 2009. We’ll also be closed on Friday, January 1st, 2010.

All support requests received during these times will be answered promptly when office hours resume.

Big news! Announcing 1 GB and 10 GB Hushmail accounts

Toby — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:12:13 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that today we’re upgrading the storage allowance for Hushmail Premium members to 1 GB, and for Hushmail Premium + Desktop Access members to 10 GB. If you’re a Hushmail Premium subscriber you can expect to see the new storage by the end of the week (it will take a few days to roll it out to everyone).

If you have a free Hushmail account, you can upgrade to Hushmail Premium or Hushmail Premium + Desktop Access to get the new storage allowance. Not using Hushmail? Try Hushmail, free.

Thanks & have a great holiday season,

Hushmail

Huffington Post: Affordable Spy Gizmos for Your Friends and Enemies

Toby — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:36:14 +0000

Hushmail is featured on the Huffington Post today in Keith Thomson’s article Christmas Eavesdropping: Affordable Spy Gizmos for Your Friends and Enemies.

To 21st century crooks trying to capture your financial information, emails are often less secure than 20th century postcards. Since 1999, spies have been using Hushmail, which encrypts emails.

See all of Keith’s Christmas spy gizmos or skip ahead to the Hushmail mention.

No more advertising on free Hushmail accounts

Toby — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:24:06 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that, as of today, we will no longer put ads at the bottom of emails sent from free Hushmail accounts. If you do not already have a Hushmail account, you can sign up here.

Anything else you would like to see changed in Hushmail? Please, feel free to send us your suggestions.

Hushmail Business Features

Toby — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:10:23 +0000

On July 7, 2009, we’ll be adding two new features to Hushmail Business webmail:

HTML email display
Option to sign in without using the Java applet (learn more)

If would like your Hushmail Business domain to be excluded from this upgrade, please let us know by July 6, 2009.

Hushmail in Russian (Русский) and Hebrew (עִבְרִית)

Toby — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:48:12 +0000

We’ve partnered with E-nigmatech, an Israeli technology company, to offer Hushmail in two additional languages: Russian and Hebrew.

If you would like to use Hushmail in Russian or Hebrew, please sign up for an account on the E-nigmatech website.

To sign up for an English language Hushmail account, please continue to use the Hushmail.com website.

BusinessWeek reviews Hushmail Business and other ways to protect email

Hushmail.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:44:56 +0000

In “Hushmail and Other Ways to Protect E-mail“, David Strom reviews Hushmail Business, PGP Universal Gateway Email, and Voltage SecureMail Connected Gateway as three low-cost, easy-to-use business-friendly email encryption packages. From the article:

You probably know by now that any e-mail that isn’t encrypted traverses the Internet in clear text that can easily be viewed with little skill and just some patience. So what are you doing to protect your company’s sensitive e-mail?

The right way is to encrypt e-mail messages in their entire path from sender to receiver. You also need to digitally sign them, to ensure that no one else has tampered with them in transit.

Hush Communications has been around a long time in the encryption world. Its basic business account, which is the least expensive of the three solutions reviewed here, starts at $24 a year per user. (There is also a free personal version that has most of the features found in the business product, with the exception of having your own domain names to send and receive the encrypted e-mails.)

My recommendation is to start off with either the free Hushmail product or the Business version and see if hosted e-mail is right for your needs.

Read the full review in BusinessWeek, or learn more about Hushmail Business. If you have any questions about Hushmail Business, feel free to give us a call or email our sales team.