New feature -- antiword support

[Julian Field]

Rob Kettle wrote:
>
>
> Ken A wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Yup. That pretty much sums up what is happening with mine.
And what happens with a
    MailScanner --debug
?

Jules

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