HylaFax

HylaFAX on the SME Server

Maintainer

http://www.dungog.net

Description

HylaFAX is an enterprise-class system for sending and receiving facsimiles as well as for sending alpha-numeric pages.

The software is designed around a client-server architecture. Fax modems may reside on a single machine on a network and clients can submit an outbound job from any other machine on the network.

Documentation

HylaFAX Handbook

Installation

Download version Hylafax-4.3.x-x from http://www.hylafax.org/content/Red_Hat_Packages

smeserver-hylafax isn't compatible with the later 4.4.x series, patches welcome

wget ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/binary/linux/redhat/RPMS/i386/hylafax-4.3.X.i386.rpm
yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-hylafax

Configure

Make sure that your modem is plugged into the serial port and turned on, then run

/usr/sbin/faxsetup 

Answer the questions as required.
Accept the defaults on most everything except
the county & area code and telephone number of the fax line.

Take note of your modems port
The inittab template assumes you are using ttyS0
see options below for how to change to ttyS1

You can modify your answers later, see below
then

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

or

/etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax [start | restart]
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/inittab
/sbin/init q

To Disable

/etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax stop
config setprop hylafax status disabled
expand-template /etc/inittab
/sbin/init q

To Remove

yum remove hylafax smeserver-hylafax

To Maintain

Download this contrib: http://smerp.free.fr/fichiers/binaires/SMERPFax-0.8b1-1.noarch.rpm
The SMERPFax-contrib gives you a configurable panel to Hylafax!

Usage

Receiving faxes by e-mail

All incoming faxes go to the user faxmaster, or forwarded as you have configured.

Sending faxes by e-mail

One of the main uses for HylaFAX is as an e-mail to fax gateway. This gateway unifies a users communications, so that faxing is as simple as using an e-mail client. The user can e-mail john@08812345678.fax and know that the message typed, and any attachment will be faxed via HylaFAX.

To setup an e-mail to fax gateway using HylaFAX, a few simple scripts are needed to convert attachments into postscript so that HylaFAX can then use them. By default you can send e-mails with pdf attachments, postscript attachments or tiff attachments.

Testing

Send an e-mail from your favorite mailing software to the SME-Server. This means that the smtp server in your e-mail software must be set to the SME-Server. Because the e-mail address we are going to be using will only be known by our server. Then we will send an e-mail with the following recepeint: Name@FaxNumber.fax

e.g: John_Smith@5555551212.fax

• The name can be any name.
• The fax number is going to be used for faxing the document.
• Mail can only be send as a plain text e-mail.
• Mail can have a postscript, pdf or tiff attachment, this attachment will also be faxed.
• Don't expect your html formatted e-mails to be faxed! Sorry!

HylaFAX clients

Download Client Software from:

• http://www.hylafax.org/content/Client_Software
• http://www.frogfax.com/modules/spxnews/
• http://www.hylafax-client.de

Login on your SME Server with ssh and make new faxusers:

faxadduser -p password username
faxadduser -p password2 username2

Install the HylaFAX Client, configure with these values:

Server IP: Your SME Server IP
Port: 4559
Username: above username
Passord: above password

Other Modifications

ports other than ttyS0, or to disable

config setprop hylafax status disabled
config setprop hylafax port ttyS1
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/inittab
/sbin/init q

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Change permissions and other settings in the config.MODEM file

nano -w /etc/hylafax/etc/config.ttyS0

# make attachments readable
RecvFileMode:           0666
LogFileMode:            0666
DeviceMode:             0666
# for shared lines
RingsBeforeAnswer:      10
# change to suit
SpeakerVolume:          quiet
LocalIdentifier:        "Pagen Vegan Pty Ltd"

/etc/rc.d/init.d/hylafax restart

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-hylafax component or use this link .

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