Re: [hylafax-users] HTML- EMail to fax

["Josh Welch" <jwelch@buffalowildwings.com>]

Thomas Will said:
> Hello list!
> I am a newbie in this list!  So please tell me when I do  a mistake.
>
> I am trying to set up an email to fax gateway . The setup is ok.
> When i send
> an email in text format to the fax server the email is correct
> converted and
> will be sent as fax. I need to send faxes over mail with pictures in the
> message body. So I must use html formated email. Now my problem:
> the text in
> such mail is converted correctly and also sent. Pictures in
> message body are
> removed in the fax. So only the text will be faxed.
> Can anybody explain, how to set up the hylafax software to send also
> pictures in the message body of a html email via fax? Must I use
> an external
> converter and  if, can anybody explain how to set up an external
> converter?
> I looked into the manpage of faxmail but I could not find something how to
> set up external converters.  I hope somebody can help me...
>
> I am using hylafax and postfix with SuSE 8.1.
>
> Thanks says Thomas
>

You would need some form of external converter to do this. I haven't done
this, so I can't exactly tell you how to do it. It may be something best
hacked up with a procmail script of some variety, don't know for sure.
Faxmail can take text, HTML and PostScript. So, you would need a converter
to make a jpg or gif into PostScript, create a procmail script that grabs
the sendto number, perhaps a name to address it to as well, then converts
the image into PostScript and pass that sendfax. Sorry I can't be of more
help.

Josh


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