Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:22:54 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: ken@mui.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: hylafax and sendmail Message-ID: <XFMail.980311082254.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <199803102211.MAA00289@rocksalt.mui.net>
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The files are in the HylaFax distribution. You can 'make extract' in the ports directory to get it back if you erased it. Their page on it is: http://www.vix.com/hylafax/faxgateway.html In /etc/sendmail.cf, I added the following to Ruleset 0: # forward FAX messages to HylaFAX software R$+<@$+.FAX> $#fax $@ $2 $: $1 user@host.FAX And then in MAILER DEFINITIONS: Mfax, P=/usr/local/lib/fax/mailfax, F=DFMhu, S=14, R=24, M=100000, T=X-Phone/X-FAX/X-Unix, A=mailfax $u $h $f Make sure you restart sendmail to ensure it reads these changes. It works well, once you get it set up. If there are only a few people you want to fax to, or a fixed group, you can just make aliases for them: jan: "|/usr/local/bin/faxmail -d -n jan@9351748" and then run "newaliases". Patrick One note: I installed HylaFAX in /usr instead of /var becuase I needed the disk space /usr had to handle all the faxes I was sending (my max so far is about 4,500 in one day.) Another note: If you use HylaFAX to spam fax, you will be hated and hopefully banished. Fax spam is costly, and downright evil. DO *not* do it. People don't like to answer questions about it for this very reason. All the faxes I send are legitimate faxes. Don't ruin a good product by trying to make a buck dishonestly. 'Nuff said. On 10-Mar-98 ken@mui.net wrote: > I give up. I've been looking everywhere and I can't find it. > > does anyone know where the information to send email to fax is? > > I understand that there are 2 files needed. one is to modify > sendmail, the other is so it can talk to hylafax. > > I've done what I can, but i get the message: > > 550 <jan@9351748.FAX>... Host unknown (Name server: 9351748.fax: > host not found) > > jan=user > 9351748=fax number > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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