feature request: compress attachments

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Thu May 10 11:16:14 IST 2007


Would help here as well - for outgoing stuff as well.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Koopmann, Jan-Peter
> Sent: 10 May 2007 11:12
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: feature request: compress attachments
>
> Hi,
>
> I just came across another product that offers automatic attachment
> compression on mails passing the proxy/gateway. Since many people tend
to
> send their Powerpoint/Word/Excel files uncompressed due to lazyness
this
> might actually be a good contribution. There are several solutions for
> this available at least for Exchange servers but it should be possible
to
> implement this within MailScanner. So e.g. with a ruleset I could
force
> all incoming mails with not compressed attachments to be zipped and
save
> quite some storage in the Exchange databases.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>   JP




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