Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 15:06:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Interfacing with Microsoft fax support? Message-ID: <199609091306.PAA16063@allegro.lemis.de>
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I have a customer who wants to send faxes from Word and Excel. Currently he can do it with something called Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Office, but there is no documented way to interface with UNIX. In addition, the software is really clever: if it can't send the fax immediately, it returns it to the sender as mail. As far as we can gather from the almost non-existent documentation, the system uses a mail analogy, but it's apparently not SMTP. I'd like to find a way to send the faxes to a FreeBSD machine and then queue and send the messages with Hylafax. If anybody has experience with this stuff, could you please tell me: - What's the transport protocol? As far as I can see, it's some kind of file sharing, but we don't know what. - What's the format of the (temporary) files that get stored on the server? Can I transform them into something that Hylafax would understand (like PostScript or TIFF)? - Is there any way to stop the server from returning the messages immediately if it can't dial? - Is there any way to send the messages from Word or Excel in PostScript format without selecting 'Fax'? If we could do it as regular mail, that would be fine, but all we've been able to do so far have been octet streams which appear to contain the original application-specific data. - Any other ideas? Thanks in advance Greg
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