Re: [hylafax-users] Web faxing

["Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:51:08AM +1030, Paul Daly wrote:
> Hi all, just wondering if anybody has tried my scenario and if there is an
> easy fix.

There are several options. A quick search through the Hylafax site will show
you printer scripts that can be used to send a fax as if it were a printer.
I set one up using CUPS, but it may not be suitable for you as it reads
a postscript file for the phone number and then faxes it.

You could also just convert the PDF file to postscript (does Hylfax do this
already? I've never tried) and then invoke sendfax. 

A simple addition to the PHP program would be just to invoke sendfax and
let Hylafax do all the work, including notifying a real person to fix it
via email and keeping a log.

A more sophisticated script could be set up to capture the fax job number 
returned by Hylafax and either monitor it by running faxstat or using the
"ftp" interface to check job status.
  
> I have 2 servers, one which has just been set up as a fax server that we are
> trialling HylaFax with, the other is a web server at a different location
> but on the same WAN.


That can also be accomplished in several ways. I've never used the
feature, but I am pretty sure that hylafax can be set up to send faxes
on a different server than sendfax is run. If you don't want to do it
that way and use CUPS, then it is easy to share printers over a network.

The real problem I see with what you want to do is the managment of the fax
queue. At some point Hylafax gives up and cancels the fax job. This may be
sufficient for your application, it may not. It depends upon how critical
the recepit of the fax is. 

Geoff.  

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