[hylafax-users] Bulk Faxing Like Tobit?

["Noel Kelly" <hylafax@lolith.net>]

Hello,

I have a new Hylafax server which we are planning to use to complement our
existing Tobit Faxware server.  The Tobit server runs under Windows 2000 and
continually gets 'jammed' when the marketing people run a bulk fax job.

The new Hylafax server has two Eicon BRI server cards and everything is
working great.

My question is to do with how to submit bulk fax jobs to Hylafax.  Using
Tobit our marketing people can do a mail merge from Word and insert the fax
number as a merged field at the top of each page, bracketed with '@@' like
this:

@@0044203030303@@

The whole mail merge document is then 'printed' Tobit  from Word and Tobit
will automatically dial the number it finds bracketed at  the top of each
page.  Thus each fax recipient receives a personalised fax page.

Is there something like this I can do under Hylafax?  I have looked at
'sendfax' and 'faxcover' but these only allow a custom cover page rather
than the actual fax content.  I have looked at Cypheus and WHFC but they do
not seem to interpret the document being printed to them.

I can see a way to do it might be to produce the TIFF file from the merged
Word document (or an individual TIFF file for each page) and then try and
marry each page up with a list of fax numbers but there is too much chance
for someone to end up receiving a fax addressed to someone else.

Any suggestions would be most welcome,

Thanks,
Noel



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