From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 16: 2:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from control.colossus.dynip.com (226-193.adsl2.avtel.net [207.71.226.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41FB914C56 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:02:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr@control.colossus.dynip.com) Received: (from dburr@localhost) by control.colossus.dynip.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id QAA42576; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:02:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dburr) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:02:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Computer Help From: Donald Burr To: "James A. Mutter" Subject: RE: Need a FAX server. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, it was on 30-Jun-99), the great prophet James A. Mutter once wrote: > > My employer has recently expressed an interest in a FAX server > (outbound only). > > I've never done anything like this before. It should be easy for the > Windows 9x folks to use. > > I'm sure that there are other requirements, but like I said, I've > never done anything like this before. Could all of you send your > ideas/experiences/etc, my way? Hardware/Software requirements, > anything! This can easily be done with FreeBSD. Take a look at the /usr/ports/comms/hylafax port. HylaFax is a network-ready fax server (can handle both incoming and outgoing), that is very robust and fast. Clients for both Windows and Mac exist so that you can simply "print" to a FAX driver "printer" in order to send a fax (just like Winfax(TM)). --- Donald Burr -Member The FreeBSD Project| PGP: Your *NEW* WWW HomePage: http://more.at/dburr/ ICQ #16997506 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message