Re: [hylafax-users] Iternet-Fax WG Anyone?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.08.03 23:00 Bill Binko wrote:

> I'm not tied to extending faxmail per se: I just think this would be a
> good addition to the Hylafax suite out of the box.

Yes, I think so too.  I'm just not a faxmail fan, however.  (Yeah, I 
can hear the defense team perking up already.  Sorry, I don't mean to 
start a debate on it.  It's just my opinion, and I don't mean to speak 
for anyone other than myself.)

I'm open to the idea of getting faxmail up-to-snuff with peoples' 
expectations (e.g. supporting PDF attachments, among other things), but 
the big hurdle that I see is that the mail processing sometimes really 
needs to be highly configurable in order to adequately support the 
widely various ways that people try to submit faxes via e-mail.  T.37 
is a good step at standardization, but it will not be possible to 
standardize what people send by hand from their GUI mail client or 
whatever they choose to use.  So in order to make the necessary 
adjustments to faxmail to handle these kinds of adaptations one must 
recode, recompile, and reinstall faxmail.  Seems to be a lot of steps 
to facilitate customization when procmail or shell scripting does it by 
design.

> I'm not sure how sarcastic that was :)

It wasn't sarcastic.  I try not to be.  (Sarcasm is very confusing to 
some and very offensive to others, so I try not to use it.  It still 
slips on occasion, but this was not one of those occassions.)

I really do think that if there is no apparent enthusiasm for it now 
that "if you build it, they will come".

As far as being included in the core when it's done... hang it on 
bugzilla and see what the -devel crowd says.

Lee.

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