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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Peter | Permalink

Just in case you missed it: we have released a technology demo for the ORF OLE DB Log Provider, called the Web Reports. The demo imports your ORF logs into a Microsoft® SQL Server database and provides a web page where your users can review their blacklisted emails. Full source code is available.

Web Reports Demo Screenshot

There are two interesting points in the demo. First, it features a Windows Service (written in C#) that polls ORF log files for changes. This component can be used to have your logs in MSSQL, almost real-time. Second, the web page component (ASP.NET/C#) uses Integrated Authentication to identify the user, dig his/her email addresses Active Directory™ and display only the relevant entries from the log database. This authentication method works automatically on the intraweb, so your user is not prompted for a password.

As this is a technology demo as opposed to a full-featured product, there are many ways to improve it, from better database scheme normalization to visual design and features, but is serves as a solid basis to develop your own, custom-tailored end-user information system.

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Peter | Permalink

This online tool allows you to blacklist emails based on their source country, by generating an ORF DNS Blacklist definition for the countries.nerd.dk IP-to-country DNS blacklist.

Check out the new Countries.nerd.dk Definition Generator tool on our website.