Re: [hylafax-users] Bulk Faxing Like Tobit?

["Noel Kelly" <hylafax@lolith.net>]

Thanks Karl.

I have actually stumbled across SalsaFax - http://www.purpel3.com/sambafax/

This actually does something similar to Tobit in that it looks for the fax
number in the actual fax data file.  Salsa is the Perl successor to Sambafax
so might be quite flexible as well.

Anyone have any experience of these tools?  I know a lot about Samba so
might be the best route for us?

Thanks,
Noel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Denninger" <karl@denninger.net>
To: "Noel Kelly" <hylafax@lolith.net>; <hylafax-users@hylafax.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Bulk Faxing Like Tobit?


> The easiest way to do this would probably be to print to a Postscript
> output file, then use faxcover to merge in the "custom" information.
>
> You would need to hand-edit the postscript of the "base" document to
> accomplish this, and setting it up originally would be a bit of a pain in
> the butt, but once it was set up for a particular document it would be
easy.
>
> "faxcover" would then be used to produce both the cover page and the
actual
> document (two invocations), with the output then being queued via sendfax.
>
> Not horribly difficult to accomplish.
>
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> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:58:35AM -0000, Noel Kelly wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a new Hylafax server which we are planning to use to complement
our
> > existing Tobit Faxware server.  The Tobit server runs under Windows 2000
and
> > continually gets 'jammed' when the marketing people run a bulk fax job.
> >
> > The new Hylafax server has two Eicon BRI server cards and everything is
> > working great.
> >
> > My question is to do with how to submit bulk fax jobs to Hylafax.  Using
> > Tobit our marketing people can do a mail merge from Word and insert the
fax
> > number as a merged field at the top of each page, bracketed with '@@'
like
> > this:
> >
> > @@0044203030303@@
> >
> > The whole mail merge document is then 'printed' Tobit  from Word and
Tobit
> > will automatically dial the number it finds bracketed at  the top of
each
> > page.  Thus each fax recipient receives a personalised fax page.
> >
> > Is there something like this I can do under Hylafax?  I have looked at
> > 'sendfax' and 'faxcover' but these only allow a custom cover page rather
> > than the actual fax content.  I have looked at Cypheus and WHFC but they
do
> > not seem to interpret the document being printed to them.
> >
> > I can see a way to do it might be to produce the TIFF file from the
merged
> > Word document (or an individual TIFF file for each page) and then try
and
> > marry each page up with a list of fax numbers but there is too much
chance
> > for someone to end up receiving a fax addressed to someone else.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be most welcome,
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Noel
> >
> >
> >
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