mgetty/sendfax on linux as faxserver for win-net

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Hi,

On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 09:27:36AM +0200, Samuel Liddicott wrote:
> > I want to use mgetty/sendfax on linux as a faxserver for a win-net. A
> > special requirement is to send "serial-faxes" from a
> > win-text-application. It should be easy if all recipients get the same
> > fax. Now I want every recipient to get his "personal" fax, i.e. like
> > "Dear Mr. XXX". Does anyone know a solution?
> 
> I know of 4 ways, only the 4th way always works:
> 
> Get people to stick a bar code on faxes they send in and have some software
> read the bar code on the tiff and route it accordingly.  Most people wont do
> this.

I think this is a misunderstanding here.  The original question concerned
*outgoing* faxes, generated with different "cover page".

As to the original question.  I would suggest attacking it with some kind
of WinWord macro (or is that called Word Basic nowadays?).

The Winword macro - start with what is already there in "frontends/" -
would generate one file per receipient, carrying the fax number in some
easy to recognize format in the file itself, or in a "job description
file", and write that file to a Samba-exported directory.  Every 5
minutes, run a cron job on the Unix end that will scan that directory for
jobs and puts them into the fax queue.

gert

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