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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] filtering / processing of mail mime attachments using exim (or something else)
* david blunkett <dav1dblunk3tt@???> [20050208 11:38]: wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>
> I would like to use exim (or exim and something else) to process mail mime
> attachments before local delivery.


Exim+Exiscan-acl does this! What does "process" entail?


> In particular I wish to pipe word documents through a word-to-text
> converter and then attach the plain text word document to the file (before
> the word document).
>
> Do you know how I might achieve this?


There are many ways of doing that, but this sounds illegal for you to
do. Anyway, perhaps your company allows you to do this, but why go all
these steps if you can easily reject all MIME attachments with a message
telling the senders that you only allow .TXT?

Think about it ;)


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