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Re: [hylafax-users] E-mail to fax & fax to e-mail



On Wednesday, September 06, 2000, at 1:40:41 PM, Lee Howard wrote:
> I don't use the faxmailer, precicely for the reason you're about to mention.

>>However I haven't got that far yet, my main concern for now is how to route
>>the SMTP traffic between Lotus and qmail without setting up a real DNS with
>>MX records. I'm even considering fetchmail usage:)
>>Another minor problems on this way is relaying of messages with the address
>>field in faxmailer format ("username@phonenumber.fax") - I don't get what I
>>should write in the rcpthost file and I don't want to remove it completely
>>making an open relay even for my internal use.

> This is precicely why I don't use faxmail... I don't like mangling sendmail.

The current version of sendmail, assuming you use the MC configuration
stuff, which is admittedly somewhat difficult to do in a RedHat
environment, shouldn't require any hacking at all: you just say
MAILER(fax), no?

> Using RelayFax as a HylaFAX Client

Did I miss something, Lee, or isn't RelayFax a component of a
commercial package?  It's nice to have that for pedagogical purposes,
but if the usage depends on a piece of a $$ product...  ?

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