It is Friday..
..and it is time to give you a short update on something that we have been working on for a while.
Kolab Now is running on high-end equipment located in a data-center in Bern, Switzerland. It is running the Email- and Groupware services for our customers, such as you. Where as we are aware that Email is ‘mission critical’ for our users, we do what we can to keep the service stable and alive 24/7.
We’ve received many requests to make the web client more useful on mobile devices, so we’ve put some of our development focus on a responsive skin for the Kolab Now web client, and in turn Kolab. The result already got great feedback from the early adopters, now the skin has been updated with fixes and additional functionality.
To test the new skin and functionality, please go to: https://beta.kolabnow.com/apps/ and login with your Kolab Now user login.
I’m considering adding a little bit of transparency to how, and perhaps how well, Kolab Now infrastructure is run, or is running.
As we recently announced, we have pursued an opt-in second factor authentication feature on Kolab Now. As described, the implementation is limiting users to the web client, and this requires some reconfiguration of various servers and services.
We’re currently experimenting with an implementation of TOTP-based 2 factor authentication, allowing our customers to use a second factor.
Until now, Kolab Now required its users to supply a username and a password. This is considered only a single factor, since the username is your email address and thus known to third parties.
