Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:29:14 -0500 From: "Lanny Baron" <beef@cybertouch.org> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: (Fwd) Info on replacing Windows NT with Linux or FreeBSD Message-ID: <199811171731.MAA06543@freedom.cybertouch.org>
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Hello Fellow FreeBSD'ers I am forwarding this message to the list for a reason. Why could the people involved below, recommend OUR system, FreeBSD??? As I am trying to get into setting up networks for small offices, its a shame I can't put this type of a letter right on my web site. (Although my site is not fully finished http://freedom.cybertouch.org) it would have been a big help. Some how the good name of FreeBSD must get out to the business community. Regards to all, Lanny Baron ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:44:49 +1000 To: beef@cybertouch.org From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com> Subject: Info on replacing Windows NT with Linux or FreeBSD >Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:54:45 +0000 (GMT) >From: Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> >Subject: Re: flexfax: replacing an exchange fax server >Sender: owner-flexfax@celestial.com >To: Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu> >Cc: flexfax@sgi.com > >On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> > I'm helping someone to replace an NT box with >> > a RedHat system, and we're satisfied that we can >> > get Linux to do everything that his current dying >> > Small Business Server can, with the exception of >> > fax services. >> >> I've set this up on a consulting basis for several sites. Let me know >> if you need help. > >Thanks, > >> > His users work almost entirely from Outlook 98, >> > and send faxes by mailing word documents as >> > attachments to email addresses which look like >> > '[fax:NUMBER]' >> >> So far, so good. > >Apart from the Outlook bit :) > >> > It seems that Outlook then sends the document >> > through to Exchange which hands it to the fax service >> > for rendering and faxing. >> >> ***GACK***. Exchange is one of the most unreliable products >> known to modern computing, beaten for poor service only by >> its predecessor MSMail and a misbegotten product called >> "First Class" written for the Macintosh. > >And one of the reasons that the bloke wants a Linux server :) > >> > I was wondering if anyone had done something like >> > this before; I suspect that it could be done quite >> > simply with some VBA at the client side, but he >> > doesn't want to have to alter the clients and >> > especially his users way of working. >> >> It can be done with built-in tools for HylaFAX and >> a modern Linux system. Incoming mail goes to "fax@linux-server", >> and includes an extra header for "Fax Recipient:" > >Yep, that's what I suggested. > >> > Ideally, there would be a Linux word->tiff renderer >> > available, but I suspect that to be a pipe-dream. >> >> Definitely. There are some tools for Word document translation, but >> what you really want to work with is Postscript output. Instead of >> sending the documents as Word documents, the easiest solution is to >> print them to the Fax server. The Star Office suite >> (www.stardivision.com) may be able to translate Word documents >> directly to Postscript: you might write to them and ask. > >That's a good idea - thanks. > >> The same functionality may be available via "WHFC", which uses >> *printing* to send a job to the fax server instead of email. This >> raises security issues of protecting your fax server, but no greater >> than those of letting email be sent through your fax server. > >I've been trying to convince him that this is the answer, but he's >(unreasonably, IMHO) convinced that this will require significant >changes in his Outlook/Access application. (In a past life, I did >a disturbing amount of VB/VBA, and I'm not convinced of the truth of >this one.) > >Thanks - I can now safely claim that the hf experts say I'm right >and that he should let me to a half-hour client hack instead of a >six-month-plus Word document renderer... :) > >Matthew. > > Regards ------- Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, NIC-Handle:RJS96 NS Computer Software and Services P/L, Ph: +61-8-8281-0063, FAX: +61-8-8250-2080, Samba, Linux, Apache, Digital UNIX, AIX, Netscape, Stronghold, C, ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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