New feature -- antiword support

Ken A ka at pacific.net
Wed Jul 2 23:26:58 IST 2008


Rob Kettle wrote:
> Julian Field 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
>>
> Hi,
> 
> if I enable the new feature then MailScanner runs at almost 100% when 
> any email arrives. Nothing gets processed. Disable thus feature and 
> normal processing happens.
> 
> MailScanner --lint shows no errors. (Centos 5.2 system).
> 
> Rob
> 

Seeing the same thing here. All mail gets passed through SA, then put 
back in the incoming queue and so on....
Ken

-- 
Ken Anderson
Pacific.Net



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