Re: flexfax: Mail Gateway problems

[Bill Suetholz <bill@centonline.com>]

Maybe you can post your m4 source to the list?

Bill Suetholz

>On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Phil Watkinson wrote:
>
> At 16:30 on Friday, Steve <steve@sjs.com> wrote:
> >Hi Phil,
> 
> Hi, Steve. You've been busy.
> 
> >	O.k., it looks to me like your code in the sendmail.cf is
> >commented out, am I right? 
> 
> Ooops, only because I pasted it from my mailfax.sh-sendmail script.
> The point I was trying to make was that it's easy to make mistakes
> if you manually edit the sendmail.cf file...
> 
> >	I hate playing around with the sendmail.cf file, it's such a
> >pain...
> 
> Quite right. You must get used to using the m4 macro file instead.
> 
> 
> And at 16:55 on Friday, you said:
> >What else can I try? Could you send me your whole sendmail.cf as an
> >attachment?
> >
> 
> Certainly not. But I will send you directly my mc file to show you
> that its 10 lines will generate 1000 lines of sendmail.cf - and you
> will see the MAILER(fax) line which accurately does all the changes
> you have been struggling with.
> 
> >P.S. Once I finally get it working how do other machines on my Lan or
> >off my Lan send Faxmail? Do I create an alias account that points to
> >user@host.FAX?
> >
> 
> Well, its simpler than you think. Any client that can send email to the
> server can use the email to fax gateway. All that is necessary is the
> correct format of the 'To' address, exactly as you have been testing.
> You do not need an sendmail alias account, altho' they can be convenient.
> There is an example in the faxmail man page.
> 
> 
> And At 20:10 Friday, you added:
> >Hello Phil,
> >	I got it working, thank you.
> 
> Phew! Alls well that's ends well.
> 
> > The documentation that came with the
> >hylafax-v4.0pl1 for mailfax.sh-sendmail is incorrect!!!
> 
> Unfortunately so; I have submitted a patch to Matthias, and the html
> documentation has been revised as well for v4.0pl2.
> 
> >	I found an old posting of yours and with a combination of your
> >posting and mailfax.sh-sendmail, I believe I got it working. I'll know
> >better tomorrow when I go to the site I faxed and getthe faxes.
> 
> I'll keep my fingers crossed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil Watkinson,
> Boston, UK.
>