Re: [hylafax-users] Efficient mass faxing w. no cover page

[Daniel Dumitriu <ddumitriu@conquestvacations.com>]

Thanks, everyone.

This has cooled me down a bit. I understand how this might not be very 
important for most people. After all, we don't, generally, fax thousands 
of people each day. Except for some businesses that actually rely on this.

Unfortunately, I will have to leave things the way they are, and have a 
separate copy of the document queued for each destination.
My problem with this is not the disk space being wasted. The problem is 
that the clients take forever to spool a the same document to thousands 
of destinations. I was looking into ways to trim that waiting time down 
a bit.

As for outsourcing the development of a custom client, I'm afraid that 
it is not an option, at least not at this point.

Since my system must serve a few people that submit a relatively small 
number of documents from their Windows workstations to be transmitted to 
thousands of numbers grouped in three or four "phone books",
my solution is going to be something along the following ideas:

- define a "virtual" printer associated with each "phone book". Each 
such printer will consist of an interface script that cycles through the 
destinations in the phone book and spools the faxes.
- export/share the printers using Samba

That's it. Unfortunately I cannot put much time into this.
Many thanks to all that answered my question,

Daniel



Lee Howard wrote:

>Quoting Daniel Dumitriu <ddumitriu@conquestvacations.com>:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>This may very well be an oversight of mine (or something), but I'm no 
>>able to figure this one out:
>>
>>How can I send the same document/set of documents to 1000 (one thousand)
>>
>>or more destinations, with no cover page  and *without* creating a new
>>
>>copy of the document in the docq ? Links (preferably symbolic) would be
>>ok.
>>
>>I have the feeling this must be explained somewhere in the manuals, the
>>
>>how-tos or the mailing list, because this is the basic fax broadcasting
>>
>>case. I just seem to be unable to find it.
>>
>>Could anyone help ?
>>
>
>If you run a faxing loop script that does this:
>
>sendfax -d 1111111 my_file.ps
>sendfax -d 2222222 my_file.ps
>sendfax -d 3333333 my_file.ps
>
>you will get multiple copies of the docq files.
>
>If you run you fax like this:
>
>sendfax -d 1111111 -d 2222222 -d 3333333 my_file.ps
>
>Then you will only end up with one copy of the files in the docq.  Writing
>scripts like the first one is much easier, and for most people, the disk space
>isn't a concern.
>
>Lee.
>
>




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