Re: flexfax: Mail to Fax

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how the mail2fax parts work
> in Hylafax 4.1beta-rh6?Sendmail seems to be configured with the fax part,

In my view, people should not create binary RPMs of beta software.
Please take your questions to the maintainer of that RPM.  If software
is truly beta, it should only be used by people with the system management
skills to do first line diagnosis.

> but I have not yet been able to find any proper information as to how one
> should direct mail to the fax queue. Then only info I've found is that the
> format would be faxnumber@your.domain.com, but when sending a mail like this
> it only bounces as user unknown.

I assume there has been no change since the released versions, which are
adequately documented for their target audience (and certainly for
anyone using a beta on their own initiative) with the exception that
the sendmail instructions have a couple of typos, and, in any case the
sendmail configuration macros now do a better job of this configuration
than following the instructions would have.

The sendmail.mc generated sendmail.cf expects the address to be 
<user_name_for_front_page>@<faxnumber>.fax, but also allows aliases
from arbitrary addresses.  The same format is used by the smail
configuration documented in the release.

Generally hylafax is documented on the basis that the user is a 
traditional Unix system manager; anyone producing binary versions
has a responsibility to write additional documentation suitable for
plug and play users.