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Re: [hylafax-users] pdf2ps, faxmail, sendfax, sendmail



I have seen this about 500 times on the list and it always elicits the same response from me:

1.) I am not a programmer, so I can't just throw anything together.
2.) Why isn't the current distribution updated to make it so that faxmail *can* handle PDF? (especially if it is so easy, and so many others have already invented this wheel, it seems.)


Tom

On Apr 14, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Lee Howard wrote:

Robert McIntosh wrote:

I'd like to send faxes via e-mail and receive them via e-mail.  E-mail
without attachments goes to fax no problem.  The big hurdle right now
is getting either sendfax or faxmail to decode outbound pdf
attachments and also incoming faxes sent to a specified address.


You say "sendfax or faxmail" but really you just mean "faxmail" because sendfax can handle PDF natively just fine.


The best thing that you could do for yourself is to follow the faxmail instructions, as you have, but write your own version of faxmail in your favorite programming language (shell, php, perl, python, whatever). Assuming that you have uudecode available to you doing writing a faxmail replacement will amount to under 100 lines of code, a few hours of work... and in the end you have something more versatile and more understandable than faxmail can be.

Lee.


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