converting attachments

[Iad Scoot]

Sorry, showing my ignorance - what is the "custom action facility"?


Thanks...


On 8/6/07, UxBoD <uxbod at splatnix.net> wrote:
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> Couldn't the custom action facility be used ?
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> Regards,
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> From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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> It doesn't at the moment, no. But if your coding is up to it, you could
> look at the auto-zip code and base a new feature around that code. It
> shows you how to detect, delete and add new attachments to a message.
>
> If you can think of a decent way whereby it could be made generic and
> customisable, then I would consider it as a feature. It would need to be
> some form of table of filetypes or filename regexps, a list of
> conversion tools, and a list of what filenames the conversion tools
> would produce. How would we express the source and target filenames? The
> conversion tools are easy, they could even be wrapper scripts if
> necessary.
>
> Basically it needs to be told
> 1) Look for "foobar" file command output, or *.foo filenames.
> 2) Path to conversion program with command-line options, including
> substitutions for source and target filenames, with and without
> extensions.
> 3) Name of output file, possibly based on input filename.
>
> What does anyone think?
>
> Iad Scoot wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does MailScanner have a feature that can convert certain types of
> > attachments to other types (.rtf to text, etc)?
> >
> > Here's my situation - I run a BES behind my firewall and some of my
> > BlackBerry users are routinely getting attachments with .rtf
> > extensions. Our BES does not appear to support .rtf so my users can't
> > get to the content when they are away. I'd like to be able to convert
> > these attachments (or make a copy and convert) them to a readable
> > format - could be .txt, .pdf, whatever will be readable by the
> > BlackBerrys.
> >
> > Any thoughts? I saw "unrtf" but I'm not sure how I would integrate
> > that or if it even supports attachments.
> >
> >
> > Thanks...
>
> Jules
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