Re: [hylafax-users] Email to Fax Gateway: *with* PDF. How?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.11.04 12:46 Louie Gonsalves wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> New hylafax user.  Got it to do all I want, save for one, small,
> crucial
> item.
>
> From reading through the docs, howtos, googling, etc, there does not
> seem a
> way to send an email containing a pdf attachment to hylafax, to have
> the pdf
> itself faxed to a fax machine?
>
> I see so much confusion over this in the list -- is it, or is it not
> possible to do this?  I have to think it is -- since I got the thing
> to
> email me a PDF of an incoming fax.  Why can't the reverse be true?
>
> If it *is* possible, then can someone point me to the right docs?
> What I've
> found so far is completely non-functional.
>
> Alternatively, are there any windows clients that will allow this?
> whfc
> won't do it, cypheus tries but fails.

HylaFAX server can accept PDFs and will fax them.  Whether or not the 
client program knows how to handle it, I don't know.  sendfax knows how 
to handle PDFs.

As for email-to-fax with PDF attachments, yes, it can be done.

You can use faxmail, but you have to teach faxmail (in the MIME type 
handlers) to know how to handle "application/pdf" type.  I've never 
done this.

I've always just written a faxmail replacement with a little bit of 
shell code working as a MIME-decoder and wrapper around sendfax.

Lee.

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