Re: [hylafax-users] Trying to piece together a email to fax server

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I thought I knew how to do this, but the more I did, the less Iknew.  
> So I threw everything out and started reading again.
>
> It seems the practice is to use the rfc822 format of:  
> user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I think that you mean "user@xxxxxxxxxx" (no domain).  It's one way.  I 
have seen lots of people use number@xxxxxxxxxxx

> The goal is to send the fax to phone number 'number' and have it 
> identified as for 'user'.

E-mail so versatile that the user can be in quotes, even... "Your Name" 
<number@xxxxxxxxxx>... but it depends on how you're going to use it.  
Since you seem to be following faxmail below then you should probably 
start by sticking with the user@xxxxxxxxxx approach, yes.

> This requires first using a DNS mx record with a wildcard.  So you 
> would have to two DNS records:
>
> fax.domain.    IN    A    1.2.3.4
> *.fax.domain.    IN    MX    10,fax.domain.

No... it's an SMTP thing only.  You configure the SMTP to send all .fax 
to faxmail.

> Then to your sendmail.mc add:
>
>        define(`FAX_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/faxmail')dnl
>        define(`FAX_MAILER_ARGS',`faxmail -d -n -p 12pt $u@$h $f')dnl
>        MAILER(`fax')dnl

I didn't double-check this, but yes, it looks familiar.

> But there is no comment on where these are to be in the sendmail.mc file.

I'm not sure that it matters.  I usually put it with the other 
similar-looking things, but I'm not sure that it matters.

> but is this right?  You want to run a script for processing the mail?  
> Is the above enough?  what of the script at:
>
> http://www.hylafax.org/site2//howto/clients/mailfax

Ignore this.  It'll just confuse you.

> And what of spamassassin?  You want it to trash spam, not try to fax 
> it.  How do you get spamassassin to run first.  Also some of the other 
> spammer tools (if the from address is invalid reject, can't remember 
> right now that tool).

Well, this is the exercise for you to work on.  In theory your SMTP 
MTA/MDA shouldn't be handing the fax off to faxmail if it's not supposed 
to.  So if it's spam then you have an upstream problem with the 
MTA/MDA.  *But* if you need to filter within your mail-to-fax scripting 
itself, then you can easily replace faxmail with your own scripting.  See:

http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/faxing.php#ss5.4

Lee.


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