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XE-Filter's email country-of-origin results are stored
in an XML file that is easily published and viewed on a businesses
existing website.
Any site with an active
web server can use XE-Filter to implement this report.
CMS Praetor customers can use
the Praetor Personal Log Viewer (PLGV) directory for operations. |
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VIEW CMS' XE-FILTER RESULTS
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The real-time summary, refreshed every 30
minutes, uses actual CMS inbound email traffic.
This shows how individual companies can view
their email country-of-origin data.
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Download XEF-Web.Zip |
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Extract the contents of
XEF-Web.Zip. This contains two files:
XEF.htm
connectionLog.XSLT. |
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INSTALLATION |
DESTINATION FOLDER |
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Praetor |
Extract to the
folder "\Program Files\CMS Praetor G2\PLGV" |
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All Others |
Extract to the
company's website folder. |
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A file XEFcopy.Bat
must be created in the XE-Filter folder. It will contain one line
in the following format: |
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COPY /Y "<XE-Filter folder path>\connectionLOG.XML"
"<WEBSITE or PLGV folder path>\XE-Filter.XML" |
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This copies the XE-Filter results file, connectionLOG.XML, to
either the company's website or Praetor Personal Log Viewer folder.
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PRAETOR INSTALLATIONS |
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If XE-Filter and Praetor were initially installed using
the default drive and path settings, the XEFcopy.Bat
file would be in this format:
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COPY /Y "C:\Program Files\CMS XE-Filter\connectionLOG.XML" "C:\Program Files\CMS Praetor G2\PLGV\XE-Filter.XML"
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If the default installation path and drive were not
used, modify the batch file accordingly. |
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FOR ALL
OTHER INSTALLATIONS |
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If XE-Filter was initially installed using
the default drive and path settings, the XEFcopy.Bat
file would be in this format:
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COPY /Y "C:\Program Files\CMS XE-Filter\connectionLOG.XML" "<WEBSITE
path>\XE-Filter.XML"
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For example:
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COPY /Y "C:\Program Files\CMS XE-Filter\connectionLOG.XML" "C:\Inetpub\wwwRoot\CompanyWeb\XE-Filter.XML"
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If the default XE-Filter installation path and drive
were not used, modify the batch file accordingly.
If the target web
server is another machine, then a networked
drive must be mapped to access the web server's active folder from the
XE-Filter machine.
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Use Windows Control Panel Task
Scheduler on the XE-Filter machine to create a periodic task that invokes
the XEFcopy.Bat file. CMS believes that a 30 minute period should
be sufficient.
For assistance in creating a new scheduled task, visit
Microsoft's Library "SCHEDULE
A NEW TASK"
The following is a
pictorial step-by-step guide that shows Control Panel's Task
Scheduler configuring a periodic task to publish XE-Filter results on a
web server. Click any image to get a larger
view of the process.
Pictorial: Using the TASK SCHEDULER
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Start Task Scheduler |
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Press Browse |
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Select XEFcopy.Bat |
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Name the Task |
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Initialize Schedule |
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Initialize User |
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Select "Advanced" |
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Advanced Task |
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Advanced Schedule |
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Advanced Options |
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Advanced Settings |
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Advanced Security |
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To test the scheduled task, run it for
the first time. If successful, a copy of the
XEF.XML file will be found in the website's folder.
To view the results on a website:
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PRAETOR INSTALLATIONS |
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Using a browser and entering website information, in the
following format, will display the latest XE-Filter
country-of-origin results:
http://<server-IP-address>/PLGV/XEF.HTM
For example, to view CMS' XE-Filter results:
http://pmail.cmsconnect.com/plgv/xef1.htm
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FOR ALL
OTHER INSTALLATIONS |
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Non-Praetor
installations would use the normal URL of the website
pointing to the folder holding the XEF.HTM file.
http://<URL>/<Path>/XEF.HTM
For example, a corporate website named
www.MidWestWidget.Com could have the XE-Filter results
held under:
http://www.MidWestWidget.com/XEFResults/xef.htm
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