Re: flexfax: Mail Gateway problems

[Phil Watkinson <pkw@elgro.co.uk>]

At 16:30 on Friday, Steve <steve@sjs.com> wrote:
>Hi Phil,

Hi, Steve. You've been busy.

>	O.k., it looks to me like your code in the sendmail.cf is
>commented out, am I right? 

Ooops, only because I pasted it from my mailfax.sh-sendmail script.
The point I was trying to make was that it's easy to make mistakes
if you manually edit the sendmail.cf file...

>	I hate playing around with the sendmail.cf file, it's such a
>pain...

Quite right. You must get used to using the m4 macro file instead.


And at 16:55 on Friday, you said:
>What else can I try? Could you send me your whole sendmail.cf as an
>attachment?
>

Certainly not. But I will send you directly my mc file to show you
that its 10 lines will generate 1000 lines of sendmail.cf - and you
will see the MAILER(fax) line which accurately does all the changes
you have been struggling with.

>P.S. Once I finally get it working how do other machines on my Lan or
>off my Lan send Faxmail? Do I create an alias account that points to
>user@host.FAX?
>

Well, its simpler than you think. Any client that can send email to the
server can use the email to fax gateway. All that is necessary is the
correct format of the 'To' address, exactly as you have been testing.
You do not need an sendmail alias account, altho' they can be convenient.
There is an example in the faxmail man page.


And At 20:10 Friday, you added:
>Hello Phil,
>	I got it working, thank you.

Phew! Alls well that's ends well.

> The documentation that came with the
>hylafax-v4.0pl1 for mailfax.sh-sendmail is incorrect!!!

Unfortunately so; I have submitted a patch to Matthias, and the html
documentation has been revised as well for v4.0pl2.

>	I found an old posting of yours and with a combination of your
>posting and mailfax.sh-sendmail, I believe I got it working. I'll know
>better tomorrow when I go to the site I faxed and getthe faxes.

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Cheers,
Phil Watkinson,
Boston, UK.