Check out HYLAFAX. It is what you are looking for. If you use paging, it
has a rather smoothe interface to SNPP as well as TAP/IXO as well. The
FAX part is highly configurable and adds powerful send/receive capabilites
for everyone in your organization.
Best of all, it is free!
Cheers,
Allen
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, ruth moulton wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help me - I'm looking for a way to send e-mail
out as fax:
we have software that generates MIME/'822 e-mail for an
application and sends the message out via sendmail or other local MTA
we now have a requirement to send out the same message (when it's
plain text only) but via fax, to a recipient fax machine, rather than
via e-mail,
I see solutions as being
1. send message to a gateway that will convert to fax and send over
telephone to a fax m/c
- are there any such gateways ?
- is there any rfc that describes headers that are needed for this
e.g. a header giving the final fax phone number ?
2. send the message to an application that takes in the mail and sends
it out over fax - same as (1) really, but done on local machine - are
there any such applications
3. our applicaiton works with an API between the application and the
e-mail facilities - so write a back end for the API to drive a
fax modem
- are there any UNIX fax modem drivers available that provide
something to work with ?
- I guess this needs text-to-ccittG4fax conversion - does anyone know
of such software ?
4. It is also needed for NT. Here we are using MAPI as the system mail
api, does anyone know if one can send to a fax driver from MAPI
(as one can send from other applications, e.g. word, given the
fax driver is installed)
I'd be grateful to any answers - or clues as to where look further,
with thanks,
Ruth
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