Re: Mail <> Fax gateway

[Ken Bowley <debian@trod.org>]

I also do the fax->email gateway, but never put much though into the 
email->fax gateway.  I use mgetty-fax, and slightly modified the new_fax 
script to also put the resulting png files in a directory that is 
available to apache.

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Nate Duehr wrote:

> hagakure@nildram.co.uk wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been asked to put together an email <> fax gateway and am just 
> > wondering if anyone has any suggestions/pointers.
> >
> > I've mainly used a Postfix/CourierIMAP solution (on Sarge) for email. 
> > I've seen: http://www.faximum.com/fms/ which is a Postfix add-on, but 
> > just thought i'd ask if anyone has any experience/thoughts on the 
> > matter?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Haga
>
> I've only ever done this the other direction -- fax to mail.  efax has 
> the ability with a standard fax-modem to fire a script after receipt... 
> the script was a one-liner to convert the TIFF output of efax to PDF and 
> mail it off to the group mailbox they wanted faxes to go to.
>
> email to fax sounds like a great way for spam to end up on someone's fax 
> machine... or maybe that's the point?
>
> Nate