Re: [hylafax-users] Sendfax Sendmail Tweak and Other Questions

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith Calligan wrote:

> I'm trying to get sendmail to accept email messages and forward to a 
> fax machine.  I made the modifications recommended in the Hylafax 
> documention in the sendmail.mc file to work with faxmail.  This 
> modification works great as far as sending plain text but I'm not sure 
> how to get it to work with pdf attachments.

You'll probably have a better time with faxmail and PDF if you use 
HylaFAX+ (http://hylafax.sourceforge.net) or supposedly also 
hylafax.org's 4.4.0 beta version.

>   I've had better luck on the command-line with sendfax in regards to 
> sending pdf attachments to the fax machine.  Has anyone been 
> successful with setting up a rule in the sendmail.mc for sendfax?

sendfax won't work directly to accept the mail source text unless you 
want to fax the actual mail source text (and you don't). You can write a 
sendfax "wrapper" that essentially takes the mail source, rips out the 
attachments, and does whatever work you want, and then call on 
sendfax... but you can't invoke sendfax directly with your MTA/MDA and 
expect happy results.

> As I mentioned, I was successful with using sendfax (on the 
> commandline) but I can't get the (from) voice number or (from) fax 
> number to show up on the cover page of the fax.

What version of HylaFAX are you using?

>  
>
> Here is the command line I'm using to test.  I would eventually like 
> to get this to work in sendmail directly.  testfile2 is just a 
> standard email message in mbox format with a pdf attachment.  Just 
> substituted the phone numbers.
>
>  
>
> cat testfile2|/usr/bin/sendfax -n -f Keith -V 4109999991 -W 4109999990 
> -d Keith@14109999992
>
>  
>
> Not sure if the numbers need to be in a special format or the order of 
> the options is incorrect?
>
>
> Ideally, in the end, I'd like to have the following occur
>
>  
>
> 1.  Email message comes in to the mail server by someone sending a 
> message to Keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  (This part is working now with 
> faxmail).
>
> If the message has a pdf attachment, it is included in the fax.
>
> 2.  The sender's name, voice phone number, and fax phone number show 
> up on the cover page.

Let's see where you get after an upgrade.

Lee.


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