mail2fax script under sendmail - how??

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Hi all,

I have been trying to get the mail2fax script included inside the
mgetty-1.1.14 archive working, and have come across a small but fatal
problem.

When you run it with

cat Test.Mail | /usr/local/bin/mail2fax

it works great, spooling the fax correctly as it should.

However if you add a

faxadmin: "|/usr/local/bin/mail2fax"

to the aliases file and run newaliases it does not work at all, bouncing
with the rather unhelpful message "an internal error has occured".

I have managed to nail this down to the fact that only root is allowed
to fax - and nowhere easy to find have I found what user the script is
run as when piped to from sendmail. The user is definitely not
"faxadmin", as I have tried that.

Anyone have any tips as to what I must do?

Regards,
Graham
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