Re: [hylafax-users] Enterprise questions...

[Pedro Rocadas <procadas@yahoo.com>]

--- Rich Fortnum <fortnum@pints.com> wrote:
> Hi there.  Just subscirbed.

No just, you are subscribed earlier :-)

> I have a project that will be needs to send faxes
> out asap to locations
> across North America.
> 
> The faxes are individual faxes destined to
> individual locations.

I see.

>  No broadcast.

You have a problem solved, HylaFAX don't broadcast for
now.

>  But they need to get to their destination within 15
>min.

Sometimes I check the logs to see if everything is ok,
and for a single page usually the operatin is done in
1 min at 9600. But this depends of what is inside of
the fax(more images, dark, alot of text...).

> I expect growth or scalability into the range of up
>to 50,000 single page faxes per 12 hours, or about 70
>per minute.  I know it's a multiple line fax system,
>but perhaps mulitiple box as well.  It's big in any
>sense.

I'm sure that Hylafax can handle with that load. Maybe
with one single box too...
 
> My needs:
> - OS X stable hosting

There are people testing HylaFAX in OSX for what we
can see from the posts in the mailling list. But I
don't know if anybody was suceeded. You can't use
Linux for now?

> - enterprise system taking advantage of multiport
>outgoing only fax system, up to 16 or 32 lines

That is alot of lines. We receive 2000+ pages per day
in 4 lines. For outgoing only, just check the mailling
list and man hylafax-config

> - able to reach into MySQL or FileMaker, or for
> those db's to throw faxes at the server, with
>individually targetted fax numbers, not broadcasts

A task to prove your skills, embeding DB with hylafax.

> - detailed reporting of progress for success/failure

notify.awk do that for you. By deafult only the
failure is reported. man sendfax.

> - Unattended reliability, hopefully with remote
> access management

A ssh client it's a simple and good solution.
 
> Can you suggest if this is the right tool for me? 

Maybe. What I can say is this, HylaFAX combined with a
*nix OS is a very stable, almost bullet-proof fax
solution.

> Need it on OS X, and need it to just do the job for
>me.

Read above.

>  Don't want to go to NT, as anything MS scares
> me.

Here, we say that is moving from horse to a mule...and
HylaFAX is for *nix OSes(not for all, of course).

>  I need reliability from my databases and to get the
>job done.

Scripting...

>  If it ISN'T the software for me, can you make some
> suggestions for where I should be looking?

This is like asking us if sex is good :-))). Well, you
must check for yourself :-)))


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