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

[Chris Weiss <cweiss@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Rolf Ackermann <rolf.ackermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi James
>
> JL> What I do is I use a custom python script to send the email using SMTP
> JL> and not sendmail. I have a python script that accepts the same arguments
> JL> that get passed to sendmail and then I set the SENDMAIL environment
> JL> variable in FaxDispatch to that script:
> Thanks for your answer, but I've probably described the problem the wrong
> way.
>
> On my network I have an email server on one machine and the HylaFax server on
> the other machine. My goal is to send an email to my mail server and the
> mail server
> transfers the incoming "fax email" to the HylaFax server to send it to a fax.
>
> I've seen the description how to setup an email-to-fax solution but this
> description (even if it works for all other users) doesn't work for my
> environment (circular reference because I'm using a smart host
> configuration).

possibly you could install the client pieces of hylafax on the email server...

however, it's fairly easy to install exim or postfix on the hylafax
server, you are going to want a subdomain for the faxes anyway unless
you want to write a complicated mail receive script.


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