From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 28 00:49:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22192 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 00:49:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.actrix.gen.nz (root@mail.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.16.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22172 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 00:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (aniwa.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.56.186]) by mail.actrix.gen.nz (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA17555; Thu, 28 May 1998 19:48:42 +1200 (NZST) X-Sender: andrew@192.168.1.1 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:51:27 +1200 To: Butch Evans From: andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton) Subject: Re: E-mail to Fax Gateway Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 4:39 PM 28/5/98, Jeff Lynch wrote: >On Wed, 27 May 1998, Butch Evans wrote: > >> I had a customer ask me today if I could set up a fax gateway for him. He >> wants to send e-mail and have the program send it out in the form of a >> fax. I can process the e-mail with perl (or whatever), but does such an >> animal already exist for FreeBSD? What hardware requirements would there >> be aside of an internal/external faxmodem? Any tips or suggestions? >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> Butch Evans | SEMO's Finest > >http://www.vix.com/hylafax > I looked into this a while back, and hylafax seems to be the package in widespread use. I also came to the conclusion that this was a good job to outsource because long distance email is so much cheaper than toll costs, and we are not in a position to set up a network of fax servers around the country, whereas companies specialising in this have fax servers around the major centers. Andrew McNaughton ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Andrew McNaughton = ++64 4 389 6891 Any sufficiently advanced = andrew@squiz.co.nz bug is indistinguishable = http://www.newsroom.co from a feature. = -- Rich Kulawiec = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message