Re: [hylafax-users] How to implement mail-to-fax service?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Groves wrote:

> So it looks like what I would have to do is have the
> mail-delivery program (which is written in Perl) parse the message, save
> the attachments to files and pass the headers and attachment filenames
> to "sendfax".


Yes, exactly.

> That sounds like quite a bit of work, with potential
> pitfalls;


It's actually much easier than it may appear.  I've written such 
mail-to-fax scripts a dozen times from scratch.

> so I'm wondering does anybody have any better suggestions as
> to how I might achieve what I'm looking for?


If you dig through the archives on this topic for the past few months 
you'll find a post where I gave an example of what I've done (in 
shell)... but when you do it you'll realize very quickly why each 
implementation can be quite customized and proprietary and really how 
simple it is.

Administration and configuration of *NIX systems is often an adventure 
in getting one set of software to work with another - and this is really 
not that much different.  It just needs a little bit of "glue".

Lee.


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