New feature -- antiword support

[Julian Field]

David Nalley wrote:
> 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.
You already can. Read the end of the "Patches" section at
http://www.mailscanner.info/mcp.html#patches

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