polling faxes with sendfax...

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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 04:26:22PM +0000, Detlev Jaeger wrote:
> After polling faxes using 'sendfax -p <nnnn>' I would like to forward
> the received pages via email. But I can't find any function like
> mgetty's new_fax script. Also the received pages appear in the
> directory where the sourcecode is and not in the var/spool/fax/
> /incoming...

The received pages appear in the *current* directory, or in the directory
specified with "sendfax -d /some/dir/some/where -p ...".

There is no new_fax here, but that's not really necessary - after all, you
*know* when sendfax is running, there are no "external" events here.

Just run sendfax from a script, that will immediately afterwards collect
all fn*/ff* files and mail them away.

> I cannot find any information in the docs. Could someone please give
> me a hint how to fix these two problems ?

"man sendfax" lists:

       -d <directory>
              Specify the directory where polled fax files should
              go to. Defaults to "."  for the current  directory.
              Unused if not polling a fax.

gert
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