Beta release: 4.60.5 - compress attachments

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon May 28 14:42:18 UTC 2007



Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote:
> On Sunday, May 27, 2007 10:52 PM Julian Field wrote: 
>
>   
>> I have just written the feature you wanted to compress attachments
>> into 
>> a zip file.
>>     
>
> Wow.
>   
:-)
>   
>> Please test this for me!
>>     
>
> First tests show all is working. It would be great if later on you could
> decide what attachments you want to be compressed automatically.
> Examples:
>
> - messages with more than one attachment
>   
Still worth doing if the 1 attachment is big, so I don't support that one.
> - attachment size --> makes no sense to zip a 100k file
>   
That's possible.
> - filetype --> makes no sense to zip archives, movies, mp3 etc.
>   
It doesn't zip filenames ending in .zip or .rar or .gz. I don't want to 
do a full filetype check.
>
> But I am still impressed with the speed of you implementing this feature
> request! Great!
>   
No problem. Please test it out with TNEF messages (i.e. winmail.dat 
messages), and messages containing zip archives already.

Jules

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