Re: [hylafax-users] mail to fax trouble

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

On 2002.04.01 12:51 Michael Alexander wrote:
> I have hylafax 4.1.1 up and running on Redhat 7.1 with sendmail 8.11.6
> 
> I tried to implement mail to fax following the how-to on the web site.
> I send an e-mail to the server running hylafax as name@1648.fax, Hylafax
> accepts the e-mail to be faxed, but it is trying to send the fax to the
> phone number of host.FAX@1648.  If I edit the sendq I can remove the
> host.fax@ from the destination line (forget the exact entry name)

You could have this done automatically by using dialrules.

>  Did I
> get
> something wrong?

Sorry, I don't know much about faxmail.

> Is the How-to outdated for 4.1.1?

Not that I'm aware of.  However, procmail always seems easier to me for 
mail-to-fax gateways.

> I used the
> sendmail.mc
> changes, not the sendmail.cf, as the How-to showed, M4 ran just fine and
> I
> restarted sendmail.  It seems the only problem is how it is parsing the
> address to be a fax number.
> 
> As a side question, how would I go about having our main mail server
> (also
> Redhat 7.1 and sendmail but in a different location) to accept e-mails
> for
> faxing and forward them to the faxserver?

procmail.

Lee.

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