CIX is pleased to announce that Ameol 2.61 has been released and is now available for download.

Ameol 2.61 is a minor update to 2.60 and features the following changes and bug fixes :-

* Re-branding ‘Conference’ as ‘Forum’ in the User Interface.
* Fixed/Modernised the CixBill add-on for invoices and receipts.
* Update the CixBill and Moderate help files.
* Fixed a bug with truncated e-mail subject lines.
* Fixed a bug with pasted “friendly name” e-mail addresses.
* Extended the e-mail address fields to 2042 characters.
* Fixed a bug with wrapping in local e-mails that contain attachments.

Ameol 2.61 is available from
http://www.cixonline.com/downloads/ameol.exe

OR
cix:cix.support/files:64

We have now introduced an Auto-Responder to the list of features available through http://webmail.cix.co.uk in the Settings | CIX section. There are more details about this on the page.

Here you will also find the ability to edit your CIX mailing list settings.

One other useful feature not previously mentioned is your Email rules log which shows you what we did with each email that comes into your Mailbox.

If you have any queries, please contact us via email to solutions@cix.co.uk or post in cix:cix.support, for support, or cix:cix.customer for feedback.

ICUK would like to invite our customers, their friends and family to our CIX Barbecue 2013 to celebrate 26 years of the CIX Conferencing system.

The event will take place on Saturday July 20th, 2013 at Wyke Down, Andover (web site at http://www.wykedown.co.uk/). We are announcing this now to provide you with plenty of notice for the event.

A free hog roast and first drink will be provided, with alternative catering options for those with a specific dietary requirements available.

There is a camp site on the premises with limited spaces.

Note :-

Customers will need to contact the venue in order to book their own pitch for the night.

Alternatively, there are a number of local bed and breakfasts within walking distance of the venue for those that do not fancy the outdoor sleep over. If you contact the site for camping, please mention you are part of the CIX barbie event for their own records.

Details of local B&Bs can be found at

www.cherrytreesbandb.co.uk
www.picketpiecehouse.com
www.forest-edge.co.uk
www.bournevalleyinn.com
www.accommodationinandover.co.uk

Andover is connected via the A303, which is easily accessible from the A34/M3.

We are hoping to have several non CIX users attend from the ICUK side in order to promote the community aspect of the CIX service.

Please email cixbarbie@cix.co.uk if you wish to attend.

Discussion of this event is welcome in the cix:cixbarbie conference or cix:cix.customer/10feedback

We look forward to seeing you there.

The CIX and ICUK Team

We’re pleased to see that CIX is in the news this week.

You can find one article at

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/01/something_for_the_weekend_keyboard_woes/

And another at

http://thecroydoncitizen.com/croydon-tech-city/croydon-techcity-home-to-europes-first-online-social-network/

CIX Webmail has been updated to version 4.2.

Main new features include:

• CIX specific server side mail rules management
• Change CIX mailbox password
• Change CIX Mail forwarding setting
• Syncronisation with Google Contacts

To access the new features go to the Settings section and click on the CIX tab, the features are explained on the page. There is also help in the webmail.CIX section of the Support section on http://www.cix.co.uk.

For the Google contacts sync, set it up from within webmail.CIX in the Settings | Addressbook section and you should see your email addresses from google in the Google Contacts addressbook list in the Addressbook which you get to from the icon at the top of webmail.CIX.

We have written a system which takes RSS / Atom feeds and turns them into CIX messages that can be posted in open conferences.

Feeds can be created by moderators, and messages will be posted to a topic called ‘newsfeed’ within the chosen conference. The newsfeed topic will be automatically created when you set up an RSS feed and posts will be shown as posted by ‘newsfeeder’. If you wish to delete a feed you can request this by email to solutions@cix.co.uk.

Please note the following points :-

1) Any topic designated for external feeds are by their nature public and may be indexed via web search engines and other non authenticated means at some point in the future.

2) Each conference can have one topic for newsfeeds called ‘newsfeed’.

3) Each newsfeed topic can have up to 5 RSS feeds.

4) Each RSS feed is limited to post up to 5 articles per day.

5) If an RSS feed is in active use on CIX, it may not be used again without contacting solutions@cix.co.uk.

6) The script for adding an RSS feed using Ameol can be found here: cix:cix.support/files:62

7) Due to copyright reasons, the newsfeeder will post a shortened link to the article, the title and a brief summary of the article’s content.

On a related note, we have set up two feeds already. One is in cix:tech_news/newsfeed which has newsfeeds covering computing and
technology.

The other is posting articles by Wendy M Grossman (wendyg@cix) from her net.wars column for CIXen to read and discuss directly. These can be
found in cix:wendyg.public conference.

net.wars is a weekly column that covers on “the border wars between cyberspace and real life”.

We see this as a first, but important, step into bringing in new content onto CIX and to encourage further discussion and to demonstrate some of the unique benefits of the way CIX can be used for this purpose to potential new users.

We hope to introduce further CIX managed feeds in the near future.

When ICUK purchased CIX in 2011, we made plans to overhaul many aspects of the CIX platform to improve the reliability and increase the features and value of the £6.25 per month CIX account.

We’re pleased to announce that from today (11/01/2013) all CIX mailboxes have at least a 1GB quota for mail storage.

Previously, this quota was set at 50MB for CIX Desktop/OUT (£6.25 per month) and 200MB for CIX Office accounts.

The CIX £6.25 per month account now includes

o Full CIX Conferencing access via Telnet, SSH, Web, and API access
o Short snappy username@cix.co.uk email address
o Spam and virus filtered email
o Advanced webmail access
o POP3 Access for receiving
o SMTP Access for sending with authentication
o IMAP4 Access will full folder management
o 1GB mail storage on a resilient server cluster
o No mail deletion rules for legitimate mail
o TLS Support for connectivity for increased security
o 100% up time in the last 7 months
o Excellent UK Based Support

CIX mail now runs on a multi-homed load balanced mail cluster with data backed up constantly to another remote site, with the aim of providing one of the country’s most reliable email platforms.

Customers on the older style ICA-SUT/CIXIP accounts charged at £14.99 per month will have a mailbox quota set at 2GB with full POP3/IMAP access provided.

Plans are afoot to improve the features further with

o Per user spam filtering controls
o Auto set forwarding or mailbox delivery
o Auto-Responders if you’re away

If you no longer use CIX mail and wish to give it another try, but not sure on your account’s current setup, drop us an email and we’ll guide you through as required.

On an additional note, we look forward to the many people attending the London pub meet up tomorrow, details provided at cix:cix.customer/meet.up:2052

Finally, we’re pleased to confirm a venue for this coming Saturday’s CIX meet up.

It’ll take place at

Porcupine Pub, London, near Leicester Square from 7.30pm onwards.

www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/theporcupineleicestersquarelondon

There will be free drinks and food provided, and we have the *upstairs* of the venue hired for the whole evening – 7.30pm until late.

Looking forward to seeing CIX customers there.

The provisional date for migration of CIX Online and CIX Office mail servers is Tuesday 4th December. This will take place during the evening / overnight to avoid the busiest times for email.

This migration will only affect you if your mail program is set to use mail.cixonline.com or mail.cixoffice.com.

We are not expecting any problems, but if you are concerned about your CIX email we would recommend that you contact us to arrange for a manual migration, we can then check with you that your email is working after migration on a case by case basis. If we do a manual migration the only change you will need to make is your email server to mail.cix.co.uk, we can talk you through this over the phone.

If you don’t ask for a manual migration and leave your email to be migrated along with everyone else on the 4th, no changes will need to be made to any of your settings.

Once migrated:

The new server will have slightly different mail headers so if you use email headers for email delivery rules you may need to change these.

There will not be a security certificate on mail.cixonline.com or mail.cixoffice.com. There is a security certificate on mail.cix.co.uk so please use this mail server. If you use Ameol this won’t affect you.

The new servers do not provide AUTH=CRAM-MD5, if you want encrypted sessions (which we advise) please use STARTTLS. If you use Ameol this won’t affect you.

If you have any queries about this, please contact us via cix:cix.support/3support.