Archive for December, 2006

New Pages On Acid Website

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

We have launched some new pages on our main site www.acidcs.co.uk.

The sub-headings on each of the services pages (design, web development and software development) are now links to individual pages detailing the services we offer.

We have also added a website map and a free consultation request form.

Calling SpamAssassin Programmatically Using C#

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

We have recently been developing a program which involves retrieving emails into a ASP.NET system written in C#.

It was quickly realised that we would also need a spam filter to avoid spam messages clogging up the system. Firstly we created a black list and a white list to allow us to pre-approve/disapprove emails from certain addresses.

Next, we needed some way of retrieving a spam score (or probability) for the remaining messages. We looked immpediately to SpamAssassin and easily got it working on our Windows server using the excellent how to guide: Using SpamAssassin with Win32.

However, we did not want the mail to be filtered at the mail server level, we wanted to spam check the messages in our system as they were retrieved and store their spam score.

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Color Blind Launched

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

We have just finished the web design and development work on Color-Blind.co.uk, selling venetian blinds, vertical blinds and roller window blinds online.

Check it out to see some of our development skills in action and any comments will be very welcome.

Michael.