[hylafax-users] Disparities between HylaFAX on FreeBSD and Linux

[Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>]

Hi,

I hope someone in this list will enlighten me on the subject.

I've been setting up an E-mail--> Fax gateway on a FreeBSD box but has had
enough things to confuse me. This could be probably because I decided to
use Exim, as opposed to sendmail, which seems to be the
_preferred_ standard chosen by whoever designed HylaFAX. 

Please excuse me if you get the impression that I am trolling. I am just
having a difficult time and therefore a bit frustrated but I don't have
reason to troll, since I've rcvd very positive help from this list.

I see quite a number of disparities between the files that are used to
configure HylaFAX on FreeBSD and Linux. For example there is no hyla.conf
in FreeBSD but there is one in Linux. Is this a design issue or something
that can be attributed to the guy who made the port on FreeBSD? I cannot
say I've managed to grab the tarball and compile it in FreeBSD. It has
always failed so I've stuck to building it from the ports tree.
I am only saddened that there is not much support for HylaFAX on FreeBSD
(I'll not try to talk for the other BSDs).

IMHO, the namings should not matter, if the source is the same. So what is
the equivalent of hyla.conf in FreeBSD?? I want to limit those who can
access the fax gateway but all that I get from a search of the archives
point to hyla.conf. Now my questions are:

1. where do I tell HylaFAX (tm) that the users listed in fileX are the
only ones allowed to access the service? I mean in FreeBSD??

2. How do a tell HylaFAX that I want it to send success notifications to
the people who submitted faxes? I use faxmail to pass the messages to the
server in this way:

command ="/usr/local/bin/faxmail -d $local_part ${sender_address} $h_subject"

3. Is there anyone else on this list who has successfully implemented a
fax gateway using Exim, running on a BSD box??


Much thanks.

-Wash

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