Re: flexfax: Is there an easier way to email faxes than modifying sendmail?

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> 
> If you send a fax via email, does it arrive as .tif file that will have 
> to be opened up with a .tif viewer or are the contents of the fax now 
> the bosy of the email?

That's not what the thread was talking about.  It was talking about
the sending end, not the receiving end; the fax arrives as a fax, and
will be on paper if the receiver is a conventional fax machine.

The hylafax support for mailing received faxes (this is in the
documentation) attaches postscript, although attaching TIFF is a simple
change.  No one has yet reported the existence of a free OCR program
that would allow it to be converted to plain text.  Windows NT 4 and
recent Windows 95 include a TIFF viewer, anyway.  Even commercial OCR
programs would have a high error rate on scanned faxes.