Hello,
Given the community struggle to convert in time a huge number of legacy Microsoft documents (.doc, .xls, etc.) into OpenDocument, I was wondering if we may be able to assemble an online converter.
(I see this as an on-the-clock task, until the vast majority of Microsoft users will upgrade to Office 20007 & OOXML, requiring further interoperability effort.)
Basically, we have all the pieces we need for an online converter:- the OpenOffice.org suite contains a batch OpenDocument converter that can also be called from command line;
- amavisd-new is able to scan e-mail message attachements and to pass selected attached files to some other filter (the OpenOffice.org converter in our case).
Now, on a standard GNU/Linux system that runs: - some mail server (Postfix, sendmail, etc.); - amavisd-new; - OpenOffice.org suite;would it be possible to integrate an online mail filter which detects Microsoft attachements, pass them through the converter and reattaches them, leaving the rest of the message untouched ?
The converter should be able to detectect and automatically convert only the files that can be safely converted, without risk of data loss - for example, documents that don't contain VBA code.
When replying, please put me in Cc: too, since i'm not a member of the list. Regards, Răzvan
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