Re: [hylafax-users] E-mail to fax gateway for Hylafax?

[Nick Rout <nick@taxlawyer.co.nz>]

The special mail address to send the faxes to is similar to this approach:

http://www.hylafax.org/howto/clients/RelayFax.html


----- Original Message -----
>From: <ignace.suy@dutchtone.nl>
>To: <hylafax-users@hylafax.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, Oct 18, 2000 9:08 PM
>Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] E-mail to fax gateway for Hylafax?
>
>
>
>The mail to fax gateway described is limited to users that use the sendmail
>server as their first mail-gateway, usually only local users.
>I hate altering the configuration of sendmail too and have been looking for
>a way to fax a mailmessage from anywhere on the net. Just this morning i
>succeeded for the first time.
>
>It is based upon creating an faxgateway user on my server, who (using
>procmail) accepts messages and uses faxmail to convert incoming messages and
>send them out as faxes. The transport of the faxnumber is the difficult
>thing because i did not want to go throug laborous scripting and i wanted to
>make use of the default faxmail functionality that already defines a To,
>From, Subject and date field taken directly from the incoming mail.
>
>I found that the following syntax is allowed througout the mailservers in
>the world:
>   faxrelay+extrainfo@machine.domain.bla
>where faxrelay is the faxgateway user on your server, the + is a separation
>symbol and the extrainfo can be used to hold a faxnumber.
>
>Give me another few days and i'll post the entire working description.
>
>-Ignace


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