Re: [hylafax-users] General Questions about Hylafax

["issue test" <itest@hotmail.com>]

Lee, thank you for your quick response!

Please bear with my beginner questions.

If configurations are made for email-to-fax submission, does that mean I 
don't need a client program any more? But how does the email server know to 
send the fax mail to the fax server? How difficult is it to make such a 
configuration?

Say if in my Java code, I can have the fax number and fax file information, 
does it make more sense to write some Java code to call the server program 
hfaxd (as Lee mentioned) directly, or is there a way to make use of WHFC or 
RelayFax? Which requires more effort? which makes more sense?

What effort level is it to make the Hylafax server basic functions work? 
What's the ballpark figure of hours required for a system admin. level 
person or some non system admin. person but who are proficient with 
installing Linux, Perl, PHP things like that.

Also, where can I find the documentation about how to communicate with 
hfaxd?

Thanks!

Freda

>From: Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>
>To: "issue test" <itest@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] General Questions about Hylafax
>Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:42:42 -0600
>
>The client programs communicate in some fashion with the server program to
>fax.  There are a number of ways that this can be done.  Be default, the
>communication is an ftp-like protocol with the server program, hfaxd.  Many
>people make configurations for email-to-fax submission also.
>
>Some client programs are WHFC and RelayFax.
>
>Lee Howard
>
>At 10:34 PM 8/21/00 GMT, you wrote:
> >Hi, everyone,
> >
> >I am given an assignment to automate the fax sending processing. This is 
>a
> >completely new area to me. My understanding of how fax works is very 
>vague
> >and I have some general questions regarding Hylafax. I would appreciate 
>it
> >very much if you can share your knowledge and experiences.
> >
> >Our platform is NT and our language of choice is Java. The general idea 
>we
> >have is to let the Java code grab the faxes and send them off. Suppose we
> >install Hylafax server program on a Linux box, my first question is 
>what's
> >the purpose of a client program? Does it grab files from a directory or
> >something and send them to the fax server? If my understanding is 
>correct,
> >then we don't even need to write any code, is that correct?
> >
> >Also, what are some decent client programs for NT platform?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Freda
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