Re: Fax / Modem question.
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 11:29, Kieren Diment wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right forum, to ask this, but here goes.
>
> I'm happily using mgetty to send faxs out, but I need to receive the
> occasional fax as well. I can't have the modem auto-answer, as this
> would disrupt the separate voicemail system, so I need to be able to
> type in a command or whatever to tell mgetty to start receiving a fax,
> once I have determined that it is a fax machine on the other end.
>
> Can anyone explain how to do this?
I'm using efax, pretty simple to setup. And it does both Class 1 and
Class 2 fax modems and with no daemons to worry about. The command can
be as simple as "fax send 555-5555 myfax"
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