Re: [hylafax-users] Quick questions...

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Wednesday, August 16, 2000, at 6:37:35 PM, John Oliver wrote:
> A) Receive faxes for more than one user at one fax number, parsing for a
> To: field or something to deliver faxes to the correct person (via email
> or a client, but we'd need clients for Win '9X/NT/2000 *and* Linux/*BSD)
> and put all "undeliverable" faxes into a general box

It can dispatch incoming received faxes as email attachments, yes, but
it has to be able to discern *whom* to send them to.  The only data
that the faxrcvd program (the one that does this) has available to it
at the moment to make decisions on this topic are

1) the CallerID of the incoming call, if you have compatible modems
and subscribe to the service, and

2) the TSI (Terminal Identifier -- the "name string" programmed into
the fax machine) of the remote machine.

These, of course, only narrow things down to who's *sending* the fax,
not who they're sending it to.  I seem to remember someone working on
a thing called T.30 subaddressing, but I don't know that that would
help you... and the only other customary solution to this is to use
DID -- direct inward dialling -- each user gets a 'fax number'; they
all point to the same modem bank.  So far as I know, though, there's
not yet a good way to do that, either.

The *right* way to do this is to receive the fax, then OCR scan it to
pull an addressee out of it.  Unfortunately, Unix-based, much less
*free*, implementations of OCR are few and far between.

> B) Be able to send faxes from applications... ie. "print to fax" or
> something similar.  Something that installs as a printer driver under
> Windows and something else that would give a similar ability under UNIX.

This is a walk-on. The HylaFAX home page has links to print-driver
solutions for various versions of Windows and the Mac; as well as for
interactive Unix/X printing. If you're in a non-interactive Unix
environment, the trick is getting address info out to the client
program; how easy this is depends on what you're printing from.

Hope this helps; if you have any more questions, shoot.

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra@baylink.com
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