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A new guide about using ORF and Exchange IMF together on Exchange 2003 has just been published at the Guides section of our website. The guide describes the steps required to set up IMF to move ORF-caught emails to the users’ Junk Mail folder for later review. Direct link (360kB PDF download).
A short memo about Windows Server 2008/SBS 2008 compatibility: as the ORF Administration Tool requires administrator privileges to run, it must be ran as administrator. The easiest way to archive this is to update the Admin Tool shortcut with setting the “Run as Administrator” checkbox. Without elevation, you may not be able to start/stop the ORF Service from the Admin Tool and also statistics will not be available. The upcoming ORF 5 version will be shipped with a manifest that will cause Windows to automatically prompt for elevation.
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.
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.
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.