Re: flexfax: hylafax, sendmail, faxmail

[Phil Watkinson <pkw@elgro.co.uk>]

At 22:45 10/03/1998 +0000, Ken wrote:
>I've just about given up.
>
>hylafax was fairly straight forward.  was able to send faxes out no 
>problem.  sendmail is working great.
>
>until I tried installed the email to fax portion.
>
>I have search in the archives...

Hi, Ken,

This is an area which does cause difficulties. Unfortunately there
isn't a single sentence explanation of all the things that need to
happen -- can I suggest that you look in the mailing-list archives
for threads in Nov and Dec 1997 with the subjects :

		Re: flexfax: Mail Gateway problems
and		Re: flexfax: Mail Gateway

There are two or three emails in each thread and give a fairly
comprehensive coverage of the situation.

>I could come across.  I keep on killing sendmail (kill -1 xxxx) and 
>trying it out, but always the same result:
>
>-------------------
>550 <jan@9351748.FAX>... Host unknown (Name server: 9351748.fax: 
>host not found)

I have never seen this error before, but would bet my mortgage on
the sendmail.cf file being amended incorrectly <g>.

>
>I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.5-stable.
>hylafax-4.0.1
>sendmail 8.8.8.4

Not familiar with the designation 8.8.8.4 ~ if you mean v8.8.4 then
fine, if v 8.8.8 then please see my email of 27th Feb 98 entitled :

		flexfax: Email-to-fax gateway with Sendmail 8.8.7

>
>I'm lost.  I'm stuck.  and I'm losing it :)
>
>Thanks to all in advance!

No problemo. Good Luck,

Phil Watkinson,
Boston, UK.