[hylafax-users] AW: mail attachment not be faxed

["Kaeidinejad, Shahram" <Shahram.Kaeidinejad@dgn-service.de>]

thanks

i try it.

Shahram

>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Niki W. Waibel [mailto:niki.waibel@newlogic.com]
>Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. August 2001 18:22
>An: Kaeidinejad, Shahram
>Cc: hylafax-users@hylafax.org
>Betreff: Re: [hylafax-users] mail attachment not be faxed
>
>
>
>On 28-Aug-2001 Lee Howard wrote:
>> At 02:40 PM 8/28/01 +0200, Kaeidinejad, Shahram wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>i have configured hylafax with sendmail as mail-to-fax-gateway.
>>>That works OK but when the mail have one attachment the 
>attachment will be
>>>ignored.
>>>can everybody help me?
>> 
>> If you're using faxmail, then you can only use ASCII or Postscript
>> attachments.
>> 
>> Lee.
>
>or you try my setup - i can successfully send emails with 
>attached pdf files
>which are faxed afterwards.
>here is what to do:
>
>=========
>Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:48:18 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: Niki W. Waibel <niki.waibel@newlogic.com>
>To: hylafax-users@hylafax.org
> hylafax-devel@hylafax.org
>Subject: [hylafax-users] sending fax via pdf files in email
>
>hi,
>
>because the core hylafax sw has no support for sending faxes via
>attached pdf files in emails...
>and because our marketing department forced me to write such
>a thing...
>i'd like to post my solution here.
>
>i have written it as fast as possible and so the scripts are far from
>being complete but it works for what we need it.
>
>my solution is:
> * sending a email with a or more pdf file(s) to a special user
>   on the hylafax server.
> * the email has to include a line like `Number: 123-456-789'
> * the special user on the hylafax server has a .forward file which
>   pipes his emails to a script.
> * the script calles metamail to extract the files in the 
>email and then
>   it calles sendfax (which can fax pdf files).
>nice, isn't it?
>
>more or less no modification on sendmail is neccessary.
>
>here is the script (i'd like to call it version 0.0.1 ;-) )
>===
># root # @fax-gw ~ # cat /home/mail2fax/bin/xxx
>#!/bin/sh
>
>
>
>SENDFAX=/usr/local/bin/sendfax
>TMP_MESSAGE_DIR=/home/mail2fax/tmp_files
>TMP_MESSAGE_FILE=${TMP_MESSAGE_DIR}/$$_to_be_faxed.mail
>LOG_FILE=${TMP_MESSAGE_DIR}/fax.log
>
>
>
># metamail env
>METAMAIL_TMPDIR=${TMP_MESSAGE_DIR}/$$
>export METAMAIL_TMPDIR
>
>
>
># store the message
>cat > ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE}
>
># grep information of the message
>     FAX_FROM=`grep -i "^From: "     ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE} | sed 
>-e "s/^......//"`
>FAX_REGARDING=`grep -i "^Subject: "  ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE} | sed -e
>"s/^.........//"`
>   FAX_NUMBER=`grep -i "^Number: "   ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE} | sed -e
>"s/^........//"`
>     FAX_NAME=`grep -i "^Name: "     ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE} | sed 
>-e "s/^......//"`
>  FAX_COMPANY=`grep -i "^Company: "  ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE} | sed -e
>"s/^.........//"`
> FAX_COMMENTS=`grep -i "^Comments: " ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE} | sed -e
>"s/^..........//"`
>
>
>
># invoke metamail
>mkdir ${METAMAIL_TMPDIR}
>metamail -x -w ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE} 2>&1 > /dev/null 
>
>
>
># invoke sendfax
>for i in ${METAMAIL_TMPDIR}/*.pdf
>do
>        ${SENDFAX} \
>                -n \
>                -m \
>                -D \
>                -c "${FAX_COMMENTS}" \
>                -d "${FAX_NUMBER}" \
>                -f "${FAX_FROM}" \
>                -r "${FAX_REGARDING}" \
>                -x "${FAX_COMPANY}" \
>                "$i"
>done
>
>
>
># create mail/fax info
>echo
>"==============================================================
>=================
>"               >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "From:"               >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "   ${FAX_FROM}"      >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo ""                    >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "Regarding:"          >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "   ${FAX_REGARDING}" >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo ""                    >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "To:"                 >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "   ${FAX_NUMBER}"    >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "   ${FAX_NAME}"      >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "   ${FAX_COMPANY}"   >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo ""                    >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "Comments:"           >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo "   ${FAX_COMMENTS}"  >> ${LOG_FILE}
>echo ""                    >> ${LOG_FILE}
>
>
>
># cleanup the dirs and files
>rm -rf ${METAMAIL_TMPDIR}
>rm ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE}
>
>
>
>===
>
>and here is the .forward file of the user mail2fax:
>===
># root # @fax-gw ~ # cat /home/mail2fax/.forward 
>"|/home/mail2fax/bin/xxx mail2fax"
>===
>
>dont forget that you have to install the metamail rpm!
>
>have fun, niki
>
>=========
>-- 
>niki w. waibel - system administrator @ newlogic technologies ag
>


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