Re: [hylafax-users] How to send fax as email with pdf attachment

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.06.25 08:07 Jon Morgan wrote:
> It seems this is a common question but I am unable to find a clear
> description of how to make this happen.  I need to send an email with
> a pdf attachment through postfix to hylafax.  Anyone who could point
> me in the right direction or give a detailed instruction would be
> greatly appreciated.

You can do this many, many ways.

For example, if you use procmail as your MDA then you could set up a 
procmailrc recipie on a particular "fax sending" account.  You'd then 
use various tools in that recipie (i.e. metamail, uudecode, etc.) to 
get the attachments out of the mail onto disk, and then you'd fax them 
out using sendfax.

Another way would be to enhance faxmail to support PDF and then use 
faxmail.

Another way would be to write your own faxmail replacement, say using 
shell, that calls on sendfax when it's done the work described in the 
procmailrc approach.  You'd configure this the same way that you 
configure faxmail.  See:

http://www.hylafax.org/howto/faxing.html#ss5.4

> Don't worry about offending me by giving too
> much info.

Hehe ;-)

Lee.

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