Hi! I think ;-) you want to convert docs to pdf? May be take a look at: antiword - http://freshmeat.net/projects/antiword/ There are some other tools, and one works with a mta to convert automaticaly all doc's to pdf. There was a article in german "linux Magazin" not so long ago, but i didn't found in the hurry. Wish you an successfully search! Christian Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2002 16:09 schrieb Tilman Mueller-Gerbes:
Hi Michael,
you could use MIMEdefang for this purpose, it integrates with sendmail by using the milter-API avaiable since versions 8.11 (sp?). URL: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/
It can do what you would like to achieve.
Though modifying Mail clearly violates the RFC ;), using it on a carefully configured Border-Gateway (such as your internal SMTP-gateway for outgoing mail) will usually not cause too much problems. The point there really is that the MTA modifying the mail should be configured in a way to 1. not interfere with normal mail delivery processes and because of this needs to be careful when modifying messages (think of delivery/error notifications and possible mail-loops/mail-floods when not being very careful about which mails to modify and what to do in case of errors).
cu, Tilman
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2002 16:01 schrieb Michael Appeldorn:
Anyway - i did not ask 4 some terms, but for the possibility to modify/convert attachments before sending them out.
Amavis e.g. sits somewhere in the transfer process of email and gets to see the attachments. But I wont to reinvent the wheel by trying to patch it to this function. (DOC->PDF via Ghostscript)
-- Christian Uhde uhde@growler.de http://www.christian-uhde.de