Re: mgetty incoming fax question

[David Wright <d.wright@open.ac.uk>]

Quoting debuser (debuser@platinum.globalmart.com):
> I've setup mgetty (from stable) to automatically print faxes when they are
> received.  This works fine, but when faxes are recieved, it sends an email
> to root.  Is there any way to disable the sending of a message to root
> upon receipt of a fax?

When a fax arrives, /etc/mgetty/new_fax is executed and this sends an
email to postmaster (-> root -> you?). I'm slightly surprised you asked
this question as I would have thought that that was the file you hacked
in order to make the faxes print themselves.

Cheers,

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