[SLUG] Fax Servers
I am looking at installing a fax server, can anyone give me any suggestions on the best application for the job? at the moment Hylafax seems to be ok even though it requires mgetty. Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
quote who=Kevin Saenz I am looking at installing a fax server, can anyone give me any suggestions on the best application for the job? at the moment Hylafax seems to be ok even though it requires mgetty. (What is the problem with requiring mgetty? Hylafax supplies its own components for handling some of that stuff as well anyway.) Hylafax is the only really worthwhile Free Software solution, and it's pretty crazy (it straddles small-scale and enterprise features, and looks a lot like messy commercial *nix style design, but apart from that, it works fairly well). - Jeff -- I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students. - Andrew Tridgell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
Hylafax doesn't use mgetty - it probably can, but you are much better off with faxgetty that comes with it. easily the best choice tho. make sure you get a recent version. dave - Original Message - From: Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: [SLUG] Fax Servers I am looking at installing a fax server, can anyone give me any suggestions on the best application for the job? at the moment Hylafax seems to be ok even though it requires mgetty. Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
Thanks to those who helped out, I now have Hylafax answering the call now :) Damn that was easy. you have to have the following command line faxgetty -D /dev/ttySx I was just wondering what was out there before I began tinkering with hylafax. It's a bit baroque, but nice once it's going. Bit of a pain to integrate with other systems though (but it can be done). Ok I can get hylafax to send using sendfax. but at the moment it is not answering calls. weird... Have you run through faxsetup, etc? The documentation is okay. - Jeff -- I used the word 'infrastructure' when describing her cooking style... and she didn't speak to me for a week. -- Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
quote who=Kevin Saenz Thanks to those who helped out, I now have Hylafax answering the call now :) Damn that was easy. you have to have the following command line faxgetty -D /dev/ttySx (Best place to run that is in /etc/inittab, without the -D, so that it will be restarted at boot, whenever it dies, etc.) - Jeff -- Love never misses the chance to put the boot in. - Kelly, SLOU -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
Now I need to get it to work with postfix so that I can send emails as fax. preferably [EMAIL PROTECTED] I really don't want to use aliases quote who=Kevin Saenz Thanks to those who helped out, I now have Hylafax answering the call now :) Damn that was easy. you have to have the following command line faxgetty -D /dev/ttySx (Best place to run that is in /etc/inittab, without the -D, so that it will be restarted at boot, whenever it dies, etc.) - Jeff -- Love never misses the chance to put the boot in. - Kelly, SLOU -- Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
That may well be difficult. Have you considered the range of hylafax clients out there? hylafax.org really does have most of what you need - the hylafaq is quite good dave - Original Message - From: Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers Now I need to get it to work with postfix so that I can send emails as fax. preferably [EMAIL PROTECTED] I really don't want to use aliases quote who=Kevin Saenz Thanks to those who helped out, I now have Hylafax answering the call now :) Damn that was easy. you have to have the following command line faxgetty -D /dev/ttySx (Best place to run that is in /etc/inittab, without the -D, so that it will be restarted at boot, whenever it dies, etc.) - Jeff -- Love never misses the chance to put the boot in. - Kelly, SLOU -- Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
quote who=Kevin Saenz Now I need to get it to work with postfix so that I can send emails as fax. preferably [EMAIL PROTECTED] I really don't want to use aliases Lots of sweet (though pretty simple) docs and recipes on the website. :-) - Jeff -- In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain - Martin Schulze -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
With faxing through a fax-modem, you have two choices: Class 1: computer does a lot of work, very timing critical Class 2 or 2.0: modem does a lot of the work, many modems are buggy Your Mileage will vary. Class 1 needs a dedicated or idle box. Class 2 needs a good modem. Other things: search around for fax2pdf, we have plugged it into hylafax, it is much cooler getting a PDF than a postscript file, and it's smaller in size, and looks better on screen, especially if you use acrobat 5 or ghostview with graphic smoothing, ideal for forwarding to others. fax2ps |ps2pdf will give you a much larger, uglier looking file. Beware the Tiff. tiff is a very multi-faceted file format, many tools which handle tiff only handle certain flavours. Tiffsplit is handy for splitting your fax into pages. cheers, Woody On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:17:16PM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote: Thanks to those who helped out, I now have Hylafax answering the call now :) Damn that was easy. you have to have the following command line faxgetty -D /dev/ttySx I was just wondering what was out there before I began tinkering with hylafax. It's a bit baroque, but nice once it's going. Bit of a pain to integrate with other systems though (but it can be done). Ok I can get hylafax to send using sendfax. but at the moment it is not answering calls. weird... Have you run through faxsetup, etc? The documentation is okay. - Jeff -- I used the word 'infrastructure' when describing her cooking style... and she didn't speak to me for a week. -- Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Woody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
after some problems with fax2pdf myself I found the best doco and files were on the hylafax site itself. its in the setup docs section, just change a variable and replace the faxrecvd script and it should work. A shared IMAP mailbox for incoming faxes makes a nice solution for a small office. we have it working nicely for a few clients now and they love it. dave Anthony Wood said: search around for fax2pdf, we have plugged it into hylafax, it is much cooler getting a PDF than a postscript file, and it's smaller in size, and looks better on screen, especially if you use acrobat 5 or ghostview with graphic smoothing, ideal for forwarding to others. fax2ps |ps2pdf will give you a much larger, uglier looking file. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Fax Servers
On 16 Jan 2003, Kevin Saenz wrote: I am looking at installing a fax server, can anyone give me any suggestions on the best application for the job? at the moment Hylafax seems to be ok even though it requires mgetty. I use HylaFAX (actually, I just got it in yesterday after our NT one went TU) and it went in fairly easily, and seems to be doing the job so far. -- --- #include disclaimer.h Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
