MAIL TO FAX GATEWAY
It is easy to setup a simple mail to fax gateway facility with the tools
included in this distribution and some simple additions to your
mail delivery agent configuration.
- Setup the HylaFAX software as usual.
- If your system uses sendmail to deliver mail, then follow the
instructions in faxmail/mailfax.sh-sendmail.
(Thanks to Eric Allman for the sendmail
configuration hack.)
- If your system uses smail (e.g. Linux users), then follow the
instructions in faxmail/mailfax.sh-smail.
- Restart your mail software, refreeze your configuration or
whatever is necessary to cause the configuration changes to be
seen by the system.
Voila! Now mail to user@dest.fax
will get formatted and submitted as a
facsimile job to user at the specified dest.
By writing a more
involved mailfax script you can add things like different resolutions
by parsing the user string. For example, an X.400-style scheme might
use:
user/R=low/N=done@host.fax
where ``R=low'' specifies a low res facsimile and ``N=done'' requests
notification when the job is done. If you want symbolic destinations,
then you can provide a host to phone number mapping facility.
The normal access control mechansims on submitting a facsimile
for transmission are enforced; you may need to use them if you setup
a fax gateway on your system!
Dirk Husemann
has contributed a more elaborate scheme that supports
the transmission of MIME-encoded documents; check the
FAQ.
There is also the "Remote Printing Experiment" being conducted by folks
on the Internet. This provides a distributed fax delivery service that
uses email to relay facsimile to a local site for delivery. For info
about that stuff send mail to
tpc-faq@town.hall.org or
visit their WWW site.
HylaFAX table
of contents.
Sam Leffler / sam@engr.sgi.com.
Last updated $Date: 1995/02/20 01:21:22 $.