Q51: Simple Mail-to-fax gateway?


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Q.
Simple Mail-to-fax gateway?

The REAL problem is, how can I restrict this gateway to certain numbers easyly?

A.
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 18:02:08 +0200 (MST)
From: Matthias Apitz <Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de >
Subject: Re: FAXMAIL

ohp@server.pyrenet.fr wrote:
    
    Hi, every one
    
    I've a very simple question for you all (I hope)
    
    I'm trying to set a e-mail-fax gateway up; although it's not as straitforward
    as I would hav thought, I thin I canmanage.
    The REAL problem is, how can I restrict this gateway to certain numbers
    easyly?
    
    Thanks for your help

We're using email addrs like "matthias.fax@faxserver.domain"
and a small ascii database to resolve "matthias.fax" to
the name of the company, the fax-number and the name of
the recipient; all the work is done in a small shell script
called by the mail transport agent at "faxserver.domain".

If "name.fax" is not in the database the mail bounces.

	matthias


Note: Some of the hyperlinks (e.g. for the man pages) can only work, if the HylaFAX software and the full documentation are installed on your system.

Matthias Apitz / guru@softcon.de ; (07:34:58 AM 01/27/97)