HylaFax
Hylafax on the SME Server
http://www.hylafax.org/ 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.
hylafax documentatoin http://www.hylafax.org/content/Handbook
Install
Install Hylafax
Download the latest rpm from http://www.hylafax.org/content/Red_Hat_Packages
Install with the following command and it will install all of the required packages for you.
yum localinstall hylafax*
Configure modem
Make sure that your modem is plugged into the serial port and turned on.
/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 tty (The first serial port is ttyS0 and the second is ttyS1)
Note. The inittab template assumes you are using ttyS0. see hacks below for how to change to ttyS1
Internal Modems most likely will not work.
Install smeserver-hylafax
smeserver-hylafax configures SME Server to suit hylafax
rpm available here, please add comments, success or failure, new fragments/features http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2457
yum localinstall smeserver-hylafax*
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
a new user, 'faxmaster' is created optionally forward the mail for faxmaster to suit, to a user or group
a domain 'fax' and a user 'faxsender' is created to enable the email to fax gateway as well as other support scripts and changes
Usage
Receiving faxes by e-mail
All incoming faxes go to the faxmaster's e-mail box, 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, eg
config setprop hylafax port ttyS1 /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/inittab /sbin/init q
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: on LocalIdentifier: "Pagen Vegan Pty Ltd"
