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It's easy to setup an email to fax gateway with these simple steps:
1. Setup the HylaFAX software as usual.
2. If your system uses sendmail to deliver mail, then follow the
instructions in mailfax.sh-sendmail.
3. If your system uses smail (e.g. Linux users), then follow the
instructions in mailfax.sh-smail.
4. 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.
NOTE: The normal access control mechansims on submitting a facsimile
for transmission are enforced--you may need to use them if you create
an email to fax gateway on your machine!
Dirk Husemann's more elaborate scheme is included in the contributed
software; check out ../contrib/dirk.
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.
Sam
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