[hylafax-users] AW: Email to Fax Gateway: *with* PDF. How?

[erich.iseli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Title: AW: [hylafax-users] Email to Fax Gateway: *with* PDF. How?

Hello everybody on this list,

I'm working on this problem too and I've found the following message in the archives:
http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2004-10/msg00003.php

It's in French, but hope you understand. Otherwise I'll take the time to translate the most important parts.

The place which I'm unsure about is the "hyla.conf" file he's mentioning. I don't have any such file on my whole system (FC2) after having installed Hylafax from source. I have tried editing /var/spool/hylafax/etc/config but since sending a pdf didn't work, I doubt it was the right choice. Any hints? Can anyone who has a hyla.conf file paste a few lines on the list so that I can compare with the files I have?

Thanks a lot in advance

Erich

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Louie Gonsalves [mailto:louie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet: Montag, 8. November 2004 16:55
An: Marcos Paulo
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: [hylafax-users] Email to Fax Gateway: *with* PDF. How?

Greetings, Marcos.

Thanks for the script..

Tried your perl script.  At first I needed to install perl-MIME-tools, which I did -- now I'm getting a different error, I have your faxgw perl script in /etc/smrsh and /var/spool/hylafax/bin, with permissions of 777 on both places -- this is the error:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
|/var/spool/hylafax/bin/faxgw
   (reason: 13)
   (expanded from:  <faxtest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)

  ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Could not open  for append: Permission denied at /etc/smrsh/faxgw line 53, <STDIN> line 1913.

554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 13

Any ideas what's causing this?

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Marcos Paulo <marcospls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:06:11 -0200
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Email to Fax Gateway: *with* PDF.  How?

> Lee Howard escreveu:
>
> > On 2004.11.04 12:46 Louie Gonsalves wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings.
> >>
> >> New hylafax user.  Got it to do all I want, save for one, small,
> >> crucial item.
> >>
> >> From reading through the docs, howtos, googling, etc, there does
> >> not seem a way to send an email containing a pdf attachment to
> >> hylafax, to have the pdf itself faxed to a fax machine?
> >>
> >> I see so much confusion over this in the list -- is it, or is it
> >> not possible to do this?  I have to think it is -- since I got the
> >> thing to email me a PDF of an incoming fax.  Why can't the reverse
> >> be true?
> >>
> >> If it *is* possible, then can someone point me to the right docs?
> >> What I've
> >> found so far is completely non-functional.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, are there any windows clients that will allow this?
> >> whfc
> >> won't do it, cypheus tries but fails.
> >
> >
> > HylaFAX server can accept PDFs and will fax them.  Whether or not
> > the client program knows how to handle it, I don't know.  sendfax
> > knows how to handle PDFs.
> >
> > As for email-to-fax with PDF attachments, yes, it can be done.
> >
> > You can use faxmail, but you have to teach faxmail (in the MIME type
> > handlers) to know how to handle "application/pdf" type.  I've never
> > done this.
> >
> > I've always just written a faxmail replacement with a little bit of
> > shell code working as a MIME-decoder and wrapper around sendfax.
> >
> > Lee.
> >
>
> Ok, you can a e-mail to fax server, with a PDF attachment right?
> I had the same problem with this, i send a message in the Hylafax
> forum and i received this return:
>
> E-mail to Fax+Sendmal :
>
> 1 -   Sendmail installed and running in the Fax server
> 2 -   Create a user account
> Ex.:
> adduser faxgw
>
> 3 -   Create a file in /home/faxgw/.forward with this command in
> file: "| /var/spool/hylafax/bin/faxgw" our directory of Hylafax Server
> installed
>
> 4 -   I send attached a perl script faxgw, this is run sendfax with mail
> received from client in faxserver
>
> 5 -   Send a mail to faxserver:
>
> To: faxgw@faxserver_address
> Subject: Number_Of_Fax|Hour_to_Send|Subject
> Ex.:        33333333333|13:21|This is a fax for my Mother...
> Attach:  File.pdf or File.tiff
>
> Obs.: This script work for PDF and TIFF, but not for html attachment.
>          In recent version of Sendmail for security, you need make a
> copy of faxgw script to /etc/smrsh
>          Doubts search in Hylafax forum with this text: FAXGW
>
> Good Bye!
------- End of Original Message -------

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