feature request: compress attachments

[Martin.Hepworth]

Jules

Yeah I know it's not easy, that's we thought "you" would be able to help
out ;-)

Talking of 'you', how's the health? Back to work yet, or just doing
MailScanner stuff to get back to speed?

--
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 Julian Field
> Sent: 23 May 2007 10:56
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: feature request: compress attachments
>
> 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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