mgetty A SUCCESS STORY

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I have set up a linux (redhat 5.2 distrib.) as an incoming fax server.

The main use of this fax server is to convert faxes, sent from a given
fax machine, to gifs and send them to a mailing list.
I am very happy with this fax server as none of the M$ NT devoted
administrators here in my company (tunisian national railway
transporter) had made such an application (which is simple and usefull).

As many people does not have computers here, unfortunatly most of them
are information makers, we will probably continu running with this
configuration (two groups of people those using compuers and e-mail and
those using faxes) for some time.

The information sent every morning, to this mailing list, is very
important and needed by some decision makers which appreciate the
rapidity by which they get these infos (it took from few hours to ten
days to distribute these informations before setting=A0 up the mgetty fax
server vs the 1 to 3 minutes it takes now).

Now I want to add some other services around mgetty.
The first is to give all people with access to my server the ability to
send faxes from their computers so that they can contact all pople with
faxes:
Eddie Carpenter had made an mgetty windows client that allows this. I
was not able to set it up but will continue trying.
The second service I want to set up is a fax to mail gateway that will
allow all people with faxes to contact anyone with an e-mail account and
my question is :
is it possible to set up virtual phone numbers with mgetty so that
people send faxes to 1234xxxx where 1234 is the real phone number of the
mgetty fax server and xxxx a virtual phone number (could be the pop user
uid); and thus mgetty will be listening on all 1234xxxx virtual modems
and send each fax received on the xxxx modem to the corresponding e-mail
account/popuser ?

I don't know how this could be made, if possible, but probably putting a
module which will listen on /dev/ttyS0, intercept the xxxx number and
then call mgetty with an xxxx caller ID will allow us to use to standard
filtering rules and send to fax to the xxxx user's mailbox.