flexfax: Re: Converting attatchments for email faxes

[Aaron Newsome <aaron.d.newsome@wdc.com>]

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Aaron Newsome wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:21:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Aaron Newsome <aaron.d.newsome@wdc.com>
> To: flexfax@sqi.com
> Subject: Converting attatchments for email faxes
> 
> I have successfully set up the email->fax gateway using hylafax and
> sendmail. It was pretty simple, I just added the following line in
> /etc/aliases.
> 
> myfax: "|/usr/local/bin/faxmail -d myfax@5551212"
> 
> Now when I send mail to myfax@myhost.wdc.com, the e-mail message comes spewing out of the fax machine at 555-1212.
> 
> Pretty simple.
> 
> The faxmail program knows how to convert attatchments of very few mime-types (plain text, rfc822 encapsulated, application/postscript, etc). It also says that you can create your own scripts for converting any mime-type you wish.
> 
> I've read the vague man page and documentation on how to set up these converters
> for outgoing faxes, but I have been unable to get these to work at all.
> 
> My documentation did not show any examples of how to do this. It says you
> have to create a directory structure of type/subtype for the mime-types you wish to decode.
> 
> I have tried this and cannot get it to work. Does anyone have any example of how to set up, say, PDF conversion. I have Alladin ghostscript 5.10 and it does know how to deal with PDF files.
> 
> Any examples or success stories would be helpful.
> 
> Thanks, Aaron Newsome
> 
>