Re: [hylafax-users] mail to fax trouble

[Dieter Kluenter <dieter@incode.com>]

Hello,

"Michael Alexander" <hylafax@milwaukeevalve.com> writes:

> 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)  Did I get
> something wrong? Is the How-to outdated for 4.1.1?  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.

Did you check the path environment?

>
> 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?

Yes, that would be possible. Just define a FAX_RELAY in your
sendmail.mc, see the batbook 19.6.5

-Dieter


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