Re: [hylafax-users] pdf2ps, faxmail, sendfax, sendmail

["Conlan Adams" <conlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fun little thought, if any one is interested I have a few scripts that
nabs a file dropped to a smb share, faxes it, and backups the original
to a non shared folder.

All you have to do is name the file the number you want to fax it to.

It uses cron to check the share every minute, if something is there, it
faxes it to the number that it's named, and then moves it.  If there is
nothing there, it just exits.  It's also designed to grab multiple
files, if there are more than one.  I'm sure with some tweaking you can
get it to do thing other ways as you see fit as well.

All you have to do is name the file the number you want to fax it to.

A great way to do faxing from windows in my book, we are going to use it
with a VB "speed dial" app that I haven't gotten around to writing yet.

Conlan Adams

-----Original Message-----
From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Stowe
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:25 AM
To: Tom Rymes
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] pdf2ps, faxmail, sendfax, sendmail


Not everybody who uses Hylafax cares about or wants email-to-fax
capability; there are plenty more seamless ways to provide FAX
capabilities back to the desktop; and surely you can imagine the mess
trying to support the tangle of mailers and chained technology bits
between it and faxing.

You've chosen this point in the chain to ask for support, but why create
PDF's in the first place, forcing multiple conversions?  Many people
don't
have this issue, either.

Please don't take this badly; I mean only to answer your question, and
gently suggest that perhaps email-to-fax isn't your wisest choice.  If
you're sending faxes from Windows, for example, print-to-fax may make a
heck of a lot more sense.

> I have seen this about 500 times on the list and it always elicits the
> same response from me:
>
> 1.) I am not a programmer, so I can't just throw anything together.
> 2.) Why isn't the current distribution updated to make it so that
> faxmail *can* handle PDF? (especially if it is so easy, and so many
> others have already invented this wheel, it seems.)
>
> Tom
>
> On Apr 14, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Lee Howard wrote:
>
>> Robert McIntosh wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to send faxes via e-mail and receive them via e-mail.
E-mail
>>> without attachments goes to fax no problem.  The big hurdle right
now
>>> is getting either sendfax or faxmail to decode outbound pdf
>>> attachments and also incoming faxes sent to a specified address.
>>>
>>
>> You say "sendfax or faxmail" but really you just mean "faxmail"
>> because sendfax can handle PDF natively just fine.
>>
>> The best thing that you could do for yourself is to follow the
faxmail
>> instructions, as you have, but write your own version of faxmail in
>> your favorite programming language (shell, php, perl, python,
>> whatever).  Assuming that you have uudecode available to you doing
>> writing a faxmail replacement will amount to under 100 lines of code,
>> a few hours of work... and in the end you have something more
>> versatile and more understandable than faxmail can be.
>>
>> Lee.
>>
>>
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