From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 15:56:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34162297 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:56:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2009F1C for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:56:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-111-1.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.111.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3BEC3CDC5; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:56:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s8BFugLJ003186; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:56:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:56:42 +0200 From: Polytropon To: tyler@tysdomain.com Subject: Re: sending fax Message-Id: <20140911175642.6690e23b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5411BBE1.4000606@tysdomain.com> References: <5411BBE1.4000606@tysdomain.com> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:56:52 -0000 On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:12:33 -0400, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > I keep having to send faxes to people who really should accept emails > instead but don't. I'm in a dorm and have no clue where a phone line > would even be connected, even if I had a modem to use. I was wondering > if there's a way to do this through BSD? Just prepare the fax somehow on > the desktop side and let BSD send it off? I could get a number from any > number of places I think and just use that as my outbound. Any ideas/etc > would be awesome. I've been "inventing" something like that more than a decade ago: You send an e-mail with a PDF attachment to a specific address, e. g. fax@example.com, then specify the fax number in the subject. A remote server, connected to a serial modem (connected to a phone line with a fax number) would then send it, using Hylafax. Similarly, received faxes would be turned into e-mails with PDF attachments. You could then print it if you wanted, or simply store it on disk. Of course it would be easier to train users to use e-mail, a document scanning mechanism or PDF export from their "productivity" software, but fax, claimed to be dead, is still alive. I know that, I live in Germany. ;-) I'm quite sure there is an online service that you can use which implements something comparable, usually through a web interface. Maybe you could even register a number via "Internet telephony" and have that as a incoming and out- going fax number, handling faxes in software without the need of an actual modem. Check "make -C /usr/ports search name=fax | less" if there is something that fits into your setting and meets your requirements. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...