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

["marcospls@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <marcospls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louie Gonsalves wrote:

> Greetings, Marcos.
>
> Thanks for the script..
>
> Tried your perl script.  At first I needed to install perl-MIME-tools, which 
> I did -- now I'm getting a different error, I have your faxgw perl script 
> in /etc/smrsh and /var/spool/hylafax/bin, with permissions of 777 on both 
> places -- this is the error:
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> |/var/spool/hylafax/bin/faxgw
>   (reason: 13)
>   (expanded from:  <faxtest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
>
>  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> Could not open  for append: Permission denied at /etc/smrsh/faxgw line 53,  
> <STDIN> line 1913.
> 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 13
>
>
> Any ideas what's causing this?
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Marcos Paulo <marcospls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:06:11 -0200
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Email to Fax Gateway: *with* PDF.  How?
>
>  
>
> > 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!
> >    
> ------- End of Original Message -------
>
>
>  
Excuse me,
Create a empty file /var/log/faxgw, this is a log of fax sent for this 
script.

Try  it!


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