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.


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!





#!/usr/bin/perl
use MIME::Parser;
use POSIX;

my $tmp = "/tmp/mail-$$";
mkdir $tmp, 0700;
my $log_file = "/var/log/faxgw";

my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
$parser->output_under($tmp);

my $entity = $parser->parse(\*STDIN);

my @parts;
my @entities = ($entity);

while ($_ = shift(@entities))
{
    my @p;
    if (@p = $_->parts)
    {
        unshift @entities, @p;
    } else
    {
        push @parts, $_;
    }
}

my $from = $entity->head->get('From');
$from =~ s/\n//go;
my $oldsubject = $entity->head->get('Subject');
($num,$hour,$subj) = split(/\|/,$oldsubject,3);

my $number = $num;
my $subject = $subj; 
my $timetosend = $hour; 
my $maxdials = "10";

system( "/bin/sendfax",
        "-n",
	"-R",
	"-T", $maxdials,
	"-a", $timetosend,
        "-f", $from,
        "-r", $subject,
        "-d", $number,
        map ({$_->bodyhandle->path() } @parts)
);

system("/bin/rm", "-rf", $tmp);

my $logmessage = strftime("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S", localtime) . " Sent fax, from: $from, to: $number, regarding: $subject.\n";
open (my $log, ">>", $log_file) || die "Could not open $file for append: $!";
print $log $logmessage;
close $log;