Re: [hylafax-users] where to run hylafax

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>]

* John Darrington <john@cellform.com.au> [030110 19:27]:
      
>      I was intending on only running things like iptables, spam assain, and
>      hylafax on it.  After reading the documentation and realizing that i
>      need an mta running on the machine, i'm a little more skeptical about my
>      decision.  Is there any way to specify a remote MTA, i run a postfix
>      server in the dmz?  Also, if the aforementioned answer is no, do i need
>      to have any ports open to the outside?  
> 
> I'm sure there would be a way to use a remove MTA, but I've never had
> to do it, so I can't comment.  I can't see any reason why hylafax
> needs you to open ports to the outside (unless of course you want to
> be able to retrieve faxes remotely).

Remember, none of HylaFAX "core" needs an MTA.  Only noticeses need an
MTA.  In fact, then don't need an MTA, but then need a program which
takes input on STDIN and mails it, a la sendmail.

$SPOOL/bin/faxrcvd
$SPOOL/bin/pollrcvd
$SPOOL/bin/wedged
$SPOOL/bin/notify

These for programs "notify" users/adminitrators of events, and currently
use "$SENDMAIL -ffax -oi -t $TOADDR < $CONTENTS" to send e-mail
notifications.

Basically, make $SENDMAIL point to something else in
$SPOOL/etc/setup.cache that can do the job, and you don't a full blown
MTA.

Take a look at:
    http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/smtppush/

It does what you want.  No MTA running, only a commandline sendmail
replacement, that pushes the mail to a spefided MTA on another host.


If you wanted a more radical approache, you could make the notifications
something other than e-mail very easily (replace sendmail in
etc/setup.cache with a script that does something like, say, post to
some website, or FTP the notifacatin somewhere, copy it to a samba
share, run some X -display $REMOTE, or anything really.  It's very
flexible)

a.


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