Yet another way to handle incoming fax

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After reading the articles in this thread I decided to change my new_fax
script. The following script combines all received pages to one
tiff-file which is sent to all recipients beeing in the alias for fax.
Reading the fax is quite easy with Netscape when the tiffsurf-plugin is
installed.

As the script may be usefull for someone I'll post it here. It's quite
short (and perhaps not that elegant...), but for me it works great.

Bye,
Markus.

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#!/bin/sh
#
MAILTO="Faxverteiler <fax>"
SENDER="$2"

case $4 in
  /var/spool/fax/incoming/fn*) STRETCH=-s ;; # find out resolution
  *) STRETCH=
esac

FAX=`echo $1|sed 's/...$//'`
FAX_BASENAME=`basename $FAX`

fax2tiff $STRETCH -M -4 -o /tmp/$FAX_BASENAME.tiff $FAX.*
metasend -b -F "Fax Getty <root>" -f /tmp/$FAX_BASENAME.tiff \ 
  -m image/tiff -s "fax from $SENDER" -S 4000000 -t $MAILTO 
rm /tmp/$FAX_BASENAME.tiff

exit 0