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

[Tom Rymes <trymes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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