feature request: compress attachments

[Julian Field]

Not easy to do. I'll think about it, but no promises, sorry.

Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> Jules
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> --
> 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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