Re: [Sheflug] Fax server

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:51, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Our office fax machine has decided to start playing up.  Has anyone used a
> Linux box to send/receive faxes?  We've got a spare PC, 14400 modem and
> parallel port scanner.  Ideally it would be good to be able to set up a
> print Q so we could print direct to the fax server from the networked office
> PCs as well but this may be asking too much.

We use efax (free(dom)), which allows sending of faxes from postscript
files and receiving faxes, either manually (you pick up the phone - it's
a fax call, you put the phone down and press a "receive fax" desktop
button, or automatically - you're out of the office, the phone rings,
the fax picks it up and receives the fax if it's a fax call. You can
also get efax to pass the call on to a voicemail service, too, though
I've not set this up yet.

To get the scanning to fax set up you'd just a write a short script to
do the scan to a ps file then fax that file off. We just don't have a
scanner, though it'd be really nice to do that...

Seb

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