Re: email to fax

[Chris Hellberg <chellberg@ecnetwork.co.nz>]

Chris Mason wrote:
> 
> Can anyone suggest an automate way to route all the email sent to one email
> address to be faxed to one fax machine. The purpose is to allow orders taken
> by email to be automatically faxed to a store that does not have email.
> 

You could set up an alias on the email server that you are sending the
message to that pipes the message to a daemon or process which is the
fax server and extracts the number from say the subject line and faxes
it on. This is pretty much what we do at work except on a large scale so
we use a database for each order and depending on the destination media
(fax or email) the table is looked up then sent to the appropriate local
alias.



Chris Hellberg