Re: [hylafax-users] How to combine jobs to the same destination?

[Pedro Rocadas <procadas@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Stefan Weiss <spaceman@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> The company I work for is sending invoices to their
> customers at the
> end of the month. Currently we have one fax job and
> one job group for
> each invoice, for about 300-400 invoices at a time.
> I don't know how
> many modems we are using, but probably only one (or
> max two), so sending
> the invoices is taking a long time.
> 
> Some of the customers get more than one invoice (up
> to 20-30 per
> customer), so we could save some time if we could
> send the 30 invoices
> at once without hanging up and redialling for the
> next fax. Is there a
> setting in hylafax that will take care of combining
> jobs to the same
> number into a single job? The jobs are added by a
> custom office application
> that currently can't call sendfax for more than one
> document at a time.
> 
> I have tried the documentation, the FAQ, and the
> mailing list archives,
> but if there is a way to do this, i must have missed
> it.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Read this
http://www.hylafax.org/archive/2004-11/msg00365.php

One thing that you can do too, is creating folders per
costumer, and store there the invoices with a file
containing the destination fax number.
You can schedule cron to call a script which list the
files in each folder and call sendfax (read man
sendfax for more information).

Cheers.

> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Stefan Weiss
> 
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