New feature -- antiword support

[David Nalley]

Busman's Holiday huh?
I have often wondered about finding a way to run MCP against the content in
Word and Excel files, perhaps antiword can be used for such an endeavour.

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi folks!
>
> I felt a bit bored at home this afternoon, supposedly having a day off...
>
> So I added support for the "antiword" program.
> Basically what MailScanner can now do is find *.doc files attached to your
> email messages, convert them to plain text (with a bit of *highlighting*
> like that) and add the text as new attachments to the messages.
> This means that when someone mails you a simple Word doc, you don't have to
> save the attachment, possibly switch OS and computer, and crank up Word just
> to read a few lines of text.
>
> The "ChangeLog" tells you how to use it. Basically install antiword from
> http://www.winfield.demon.nl/
> (or from RPM or SRPMS at http://www.volny.cz/zellerin/rpmmenu.html)
> then set "Add Text Of Doc = yes" to your MailScanner.conf (having run
> upgrade_MailScanner_conf of course!).
>
> And you're away.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Jules
>
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