Re: [hylafax-users] E-mail to fax gateway for Hylafax?

[Vincent W.S. Tam <vincent@aib.net>]

Hi Lee,

Thanks for your info! We'll try to see which way is more suitable for us!

Best Regards,
Vincent


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@deanox.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, Oct 17, 2000 12:16 PM
>To: Vincent W.S. Tam; 'hylafax-users@hylafax.org'
>Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] E-mail to fax gateway for Hylafax?
>
>
>If you want to have the domain of the e-mail address in a 
>fashion such as
>1234567@fax.intranet then you need to mangle sendmail in such 
>a way that
>the false domain is recognized as valid and deliverable 
>through a HylaFAX
>dispatcher.  Either that, or you need to set up a virtual 
>domain, but in
>either case, sendmail has to know where to send the e-mail (which local
>fax-MDA) without using DNS.
>
>There are good examples of how this is done at:
>http://www.hylafax.org/howto/faxing.php#ss5.4
>
>>From there, you need to develop some sort of script or 
>program (that local
>fax-MDA) that will parse the e-mail and invoke sendfax as you 
>may desire.
>HylaFAX comes with faxmail which others seem to use 
>successfully in this
>fashion.
>
>However, my personal opinion is that this seems like a lot of 
>work when in
>most situations the HylaFAX admin has root priviledges and 
>could easily set
>up a dedicated "faxing user" account such as 
>fax-out@yourdomain.org.  No
>sendmail mangling need be done in this instance (the less I toy with
>sendmail the better off I am - call me timid).  From there you 
>use the MDA
>via the "faxing user's" preferences to invoke sendfax.  This 
>could be done
>with a .forward file or by using procmail's .procmailrc file. 
>(The e-mails
>are sent to the new "faxing user".)
>
>There is a good example of such a file at:
>http://www.hylafax.org/howto/clients/.procmailrc
>
>Lee Howard



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