While making changes in Horde's mime_drivers.php file to allow inline HTML in emails, I noticed a setting that allows MS Word documents to be opened in an appropriate program:
/* MS Word display.
* This driver requires AbiWord to be installed.
* AbiWord homepage: http://www.abisource.com/ */
'msword' => array(
// Disabled by default
'disable' => true,
'handles' => array(
'application/msword',
'application/vnd.ms-word'
),
'icons' => array(
'default' => 'msword.png'
),
// REQUIRED: Location of the AbiWord binary
'location' => '/usr/bin/abiword'
),
In our previous email program, our text documents, including MSWord, could be previewed within the browser without downloading. There was a thread in Horde's mailing list regarding a similar setup, but the asker had a higher technical knowledge than me and seems to already have most of the pieces in place.
I'm a webmaster that only recently had to delve beyond cPanel and discover there's a whole new world keeping this website up and running! My best guess is that I need to find a program that can run on the server and convert .docx/other files to something presentable in HTML (the "abiword" referenced above, maybe?) and make the correct reference to said program in the mime_drivers.php file.