Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:56:42 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: tyler@tysdomain.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sending fax Message-ID: <20140911175642.6690e23b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5411BBE1.4000606@tysdomain.com> References: <5411BBE1.4000606@tysdomain.com>
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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, ...
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