Re: flexfax: Mail to Fax

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, David Woolley wrote:

> > Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how the mail2fax parts work
> > in Hylafax 4.1beta-rh6?Sendmail seems to be configured with the fax part,
> 
> In my view, people should not create binary RPMs of beta software.
> Please take your questions to the maintainer of that RPM.  If software
> is truly beta, it should only be used by people with the system management
> skills to do first line diagnosis.

Unfortunately, David, RedHat Linux evolves so fast that older RPM's
are difficult to install and work with. And the 4.0pl... source
bundles *WILL NOT* compile under RedHat 6.  Darren's RPM's really are
the easiest and best way for users to get it as close to right
as is possible so far.

> > but I have not yet been able to find any proper information as to how one
> > should direct mail to the fax queue. Then only info I've found is that the
> > format would be faxnumber@your.domain.com, but when sending a mail like this
> > it only bounces as user unknown.
> 
> I assume there has been no change since the released versions, which are
> adequately documented for their target audience (and certainly for
> anyone using a beta on their own initiative) with the exception that
> the sendmail instructions have a couple of typos, and, in any case the
> sendmail configuration macros now do a better job of this configuration
> than following the instructions would have.

I hadn't been using that: could you post a note about the typos?

> Generally hylafax is documented on the basis that the user is a 
> traditional Unix system manager; anyone producing binary versions
> has a responsibility to write additional documentation suitable for
> plug and play users.

Hey! We're trying! Remember that this is freeware: finding extra time
to write updated manual pages is sometimes difficult for the people
doing real work on it.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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