MIME-able mail2fax solution anywhere?

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You can use metamail with a local mailcap file to extract MIME
parts. This slots fairly easily into faxmail.
Rex
Gert Doering writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Robert J. Brown wrote:
 > > >>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:
 > > 
 > >     Gert> Hi, Wolfgang Bartsch wrote:
 > >     >> I'm looking for a mail-to-fax solution which is able to extract
 > >     >> mime attachments, converts them and include them in the fax?
 > > 
 > >     Gert> This is something I've been looking for since a couple of
 > >     Gert> years... - basically, I'm missing a "generic MIME ->
 > >     Gert> postscript filter", conversion to fax is easy from then.
 > > 
 > > Perhaps a modification of the magicfilter print spooling filter
 > > package would do the trick?  It is pretty flexible, handling dvi, gif, 
 > > jpeg, ascii, and postscript, along with gzip and compress compression, 
 > > etc.
 > 
 > Won't help -- you've got to extract the MIME stuff first.  The rest is
 > easy (faxspool converts dvi, gif, ascii, postscript since years :-) ).
 > 
 > gert
 > 
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 > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
 > fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de

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