asterisk users - Jul 2006 - Asterisk, IAXModem and Hylafax

Hi all,

I've got IAXModem setup and configured with Asterisk, things look OK
here.  I have Hylafax installed and I'm currently reading through he
configs.  I'm having a difficult time with Hylafax though, not
understanding the user and mail settings very well, just fumbling
around.  Trying to use the email gateway functionality.

Is there any of you Hylafax guru's out there who may have a few
minutes to help me get up to speed with the Hylafax setup and
configuration conventions.

Much appreciated.

JR

JR Richardson
Engineering for the Masses

JR Richardson wrote:
> Is there any of you Hylafax guru's out there who may have a few
> minutes to help me get up to speed with the Hylafax setup and
> configuration conventions. 

You'll do well to look for help in HylaFAX forums/communities/archives 
rather than in an Asterisk one.

That said, the best advice I can give you is to learn how your MTA works 
in delivering mail and how you can go about delivering certain e-mails 
(however you wish to indicate them) to a processing script (MDA).  You 
can write that processing script to call on sendfax, or you can use 
faxmail there, instead (if faxmail suits you).

All of this has been done hundreds upon hundreds of times by people all 
over the world with sendmail, postfix, and exim, so expect there to be 
information available for your situation to at least get you started.

But again, looking for HylaFAX mail-to-fax information in an Asterisk 
forum is probably not going to be an extremely effective approach.

Lee.