New feature -- antiword support

[Rob Kettle]

Julian Field wrote:
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> Julian Field wrote:
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>> Rob Kettle wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>>>
>>>> Seeing the same thing here. All mail gets passed through SA, then 
>>>> put back in the incoming queue and so on....
>>>> Ken
>>>>
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>>> Yup. That pretty much sums up what is happening with mine.
>> And what happens with a
>>    MailScanner --debug
>> ?
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> Cockup on my part. I forgot an "svn update" before I built the 
> release. I am just putting up 4.71.2-2 as I type. There's one extra 
> line in /usr/sbin/MailScanner.
>
> Jules
>

Hi,

that seems to have fixed the bug.

thanks
Rob

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