Busman's Holiday huh? <br>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. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Julian Field <<a href="mailto:MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk">MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi folks!<br>
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I felt a bit bored at home this afternoon, supposedly having a day off...<br>
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So I added support for the "antiword" program.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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The "ChangeLog" tells you how to use it. Basically install antiword from<br>
<a href="http://www.winfield.demon.nl/" target="_blank">http://www.winfield.demon.nl/</a><br>
(or from RPM or SRPMS at <a href="http://www.volny.cz/zellerin/rpmmenu.html" target="_blank">http://www.volny.cz/zellerin/rpmmenu.html</a>)<br>
then set "Add Text Of Doc = yes" to your MailScanner.conf (having run upgrade_MailScanner_conf of course!).<br>
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And you're away.<br>
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Have fun,<br>
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Jules<br>
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