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

[Marcos Paulo <marcospls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard escreveu:

> 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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Ok, you can a e-mail to fax server, with a PDF attachment right?
I had the same problem with this, i send a message in the Hylafax forum
and i received this return:


E-mail to Fax+Sendmal :

1 -   Sendmail installed and running in the Fax server
2 -   Create a user account
Ex.:
adduser faxgw

3 -   Create a file in /home/faxgw/.forward with this command in file:
"| /var/spool/hylafax/bin/faxgw" our directory of Hylafax Server installed

4 -   I send attached a perl script faxgw, this is run sendfax with mail 
received from client in faxserver

5 -   Send a mail to faxserver:

To: faxgw@faxserver_address
Subject: Number_Of_Fax|Hour_to_Send|Subject
Ex.:        33333333333|13:21|This is a fax for my Mother...
Attach:  File.pdf or File.tiff


Obs.: This script work for PDF and TIFF, but not for html attachment.
        In recent version of Sendmail for security, you need make a 
copy of faxgw script to /etc/smrsh
        Doubts search in Hylafax forum with this text: FAXGW
        

Good Bye!





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