Re: [hylafax-users] EMail to fax with a separate mail server

[James Lamanna <jlamanna@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rolf-

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Rolf Ackermann <rolf.ackermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> Has anybody an idea how to create a email-to-fax service if the email
> server and the fax server are on different machines?

What I do is I use a custom python script to send the email using SMTP
and not sendmail.
I have a python script that accepts the same arguments that get passed
to sendmail
and then I set the SENDMAIL environment variable in FaxDispatch to that script:

The python script looks like this (this is for Hylafax+ 5.2.8):

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        sys.exit(1)

    from_addr = to_addr = None

    parse_msg = False

    optlist, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'f:oi:t')
    for arg, v in optlist:
        if arg == '-f':
            from_addr = v
        elif arg == '-i':
            to_addr = v
        elif arg == '-t':
            parse_msg = True

    if not from_addr or not to_addr:
        sys.exit(2)

    to_addr_set = False

    msg = ''
    for line in sys.stdin:
        if line[:3] == 'To:' and not to_addr_set:
            to_addr = line[4:]
            to_addr_set = True
        msg += line

    to_addr_list = to_addr.split(',')

    server = smtplib.SMTP('mail.mycompany.com')
    server.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr_list, msg)



>
> Kind regards from switzerland
>
> Rolf (aka spieler67)

-- James

>
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