The point in converting the word file to PDF is so people can get the information they need to do their job. 99% of the documents that go through our email server are never edited.
Oh.. I forgot to mention. I'm also saving a copy of every document with the sha1sum.doc name, and logging it in the maillog.
With that I have enough information to resend the original document when/if M$ ever patches Word. All I'd have to do is create a quick script that parses the maillog and everyone will get the original word documents.
Setup MIMEDefang to convert M$ word attachments to PDF using openoffice. Any attachments with a.doc extension or a mimetype of application/msword go through this process. Also to reduce the overhead, get the sha1sum for the word document, and save the pdf to.pdf Before any documents are converted with openoffice, get the sha1sum. if a.pdf already exists, use that file.
This stills allows people to get the content, which is most of the time, all they want.
There is also a program called antiword that will convert ms word documents to text, PDF, or PostScript. But openoffice does a better job.
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The point in converting the word file to PDF is so people can get the information they need to do their job. 99% of the documents that go through our email server are never edited. Oh.. I forgot to mention. I'm also saving a copy of every document with the sha1sum.doc name, and logging it in the maillog. With that I have enough information to resend the original document when/if M$ ever patches Word. All I'd have to do is create a quick script that parses the maillog and everyone will get the original word documents.
Setup MIMEDefang to convert M$ word attachments to PDF using openoffice. .doc extension or a mimetype of application/msword go through this process. .pdf .pdf already exists, use that file.
Any attachments with a
Also to reduce the overhead, get the sha1sum for the word document, and save the pdf to
Before any documents are converted with openoffice, get the sha1sum. if a
This stills allows people to get the content, which is most of the time, all they want.
There is also a program called antiword that will convert ms word documents to text, PDF, or PostScript.
But openoffice does a better job.