Re: [masq] Sendmail, Hylafax and a MASQ box

[David A. Ranch]

>As the MASQ box is also my mail and fax server, things have started to get
>a little complex. To stop Sendmail from dialing out every time I send an
>e-mail to the server, Sendmail is configured as DeliveryMode = defered.
>This basically accepts the mail and does nothing until the queue is run
>(from IP-UP). Any other setting and Sendmail tries to either deliver or
>lookup the recipient. And here's the but, any faxes I send also stay in the
>queue with the e-mail (Only one modem and phone line).
>
>The only way I can think of setting the system up is to run 2 machines with
>sendmail. One being an "internal" server which sifts internal mail and
>faxes from external mail. The external mail is then queued on the MASQ
>machine to await IP-UP .... or does anyone know different?

Hmmmm.. port 25 is port 25.  Unless you can get the Fax software to
run some script file when its wants to forward a FAX, your hosed.

If your fax software does have this ability, just have it go out
and do an NTP time update or something.

--David
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