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Re: [hylafax-users] mail to fax not working



B. van Ouwerkerk said:
>
> >I dont know how to fix this, the mail client (mail
> >program) or sendmail couldn't recognize my 25342xx.fax
> >address, host name lookup failure.
> >
> >Can someone give me hints about this problem ?
>
> Try some other ways to enter the address. I've been fighting some
> time with
> a ZetaFAX server (on Win NT). In case you wonder: yes it runs
> only class 1 fax.
>
> Anyway it was very picky. Had to try a zillion combinations. IIRC
> something
> like name@12345678.FAX worked. At other times 12345678@FAX seemed to work
> just fine.. O well.. try and you'll see.
>
> On the other hand. You_should_never_change_sendmail.cf_by_hand.
>
> You may or may not be able to create all the changes needed. I don't know
> on which version of Sendmail the doc you mention is based. But I would
> prefer to use the m4 macro. It's not as hard as it looks :-) and
> you'll be
> quite sure everything is put where ik belongs.
> Uhhhhmmmm the fax.m4 that comes with Sendmail 8.12.5 is tested
> with HylaFAX
> 4.0pl1 dunno if changes are required..
>
> Bye,
>
>
>
> B.
>
I didn't catch the address part, but that could certainly be an issue. Our
faxes get sent to user@faxnumber.fax. This could certainly be significant.

Josh


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