flexfax: Thinking about perl re-write of faxrcvd

[David Rouse <drouse@arlington.newsargus.com>]

I've been thinking about re-writing faxrcvd in perl and adding some 
functionality that would be helpful at our site and maybe for some of 
you guys as well.

Why perl? It's not that I'm a hot perl programmer, I'm just less worse 
in perl than shell scripting. Groveling through

Anyway what I've been thinking is having a tab delimited file with a 
function like etc/FaxDispatch where we could store options like:

* User's preferred format.

* Email the fax or just a notification?

* Move the fax file to a directory.

* Send file to another program or device.

Indeed, two files might be nice one with user prefs and one with a list 
that associated users with fax numbers.

Anyway, I need to make sure that I'm not reinventing the wheel and if I 
do write something that it be useful to more than just us. And on the 
'preferred format' option, has anyone been able to create pdf files from 
fax files using gs? I never get errors, but the pdf's come through 
blank. Oh, I have seen references to mimencode as a mime encoder for 
sendmail, is there a current download site for this program?

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David Rouse
Network Manager
Goldsboro News-Argus