[Mimedefang] convert .doc to text

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Jun 5 11:20:01 EDT 2003


On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Link, Pete wrote:

> I have a requirement for one user that uses proc to forward his mail to his
> blackberry.  He wants his attachements converted to text and then forwarded
> to his blackberry.

> Can anyone provide any guidance?

Yes.  Hit him hard on the head with his blackberry.  I cannot understand
what is so critical about Word documents that you need them NOW on
your blackberry.

OK, so that's not practical.

Look in contrib/word-to-html.  You can convert Word files to HTML
with wvHtml (http://wvware.sourceforge.net/) and thence to plain
text with Lynx.  See also the action_external_filter function
in mimedefang-filter(5).

--
David.



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