Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:51:27 +1200 From: andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton) To: Butch Evans <bbsadmin@sheltonbbs.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-mail to Fax Gateway Message-ID: <v02120d00b192c679efa7@[192.168.1.2]>
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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
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