Mail2Fax: Fax gateway for CommuniGate Pro

| Perl | CommuniGate | Faxing |

Allows users to send faxes by attaching a document to outbound mail

1. Features

CommuniGate Pro support

HylaFax support

2. TODO

Job listing, removal and rescheduling via mail requests

3. Download

Latest source: cgp2fax.latest.pl

Browse Source: Here

Checkout: SVN repository

4. Installation

Create the faxlords UNIX group. Only its members will be allowed to send faxes.

Create the faxmaster mail group and set its options:

• Real Name: Members receive incoming faxes and related statistics
• Set Reply-To to Group: NO
• Report Delivery to Group: no
• Expand Member Groups: yes
• Reject Automatic Messages: YES
• Remove Author from Distribution: no
• Remove To and Cc from Distribution: YES
• Disable E-mails: no
• Disable Signals: yes
• Install the /etc/localsite/cgpro/cgp2fax program
• In the CGP admin interface, open Settings/Mail/PIPE and set PIPE parameters:
  • Processors: 1
  • Application Directory: /etc/localsite/cgpro
  • Processing time limit: 2 min
  • Check directory every: 5 sec

Go to Settings/Router and add these rules:

<(2-20d)@fax>  = "queue[FAX] [FILE] [RETPATH] [STDERR] cgp2fax -t 0 -n *"@pipe
<(2-20d)@fax0> = "queue[FAX] [FILE] [RETPATH] [STDERR] cgp2fax -t 0 -n *"@pipe
<(2-20d)@fax1> = "queue[FAX] [FILE] [RETPATH] [STDERR] cgp2fax -t 1 -n *"@pipe
<(2-20d)@fax2> = "queue[FAX] [FILE] [RETPATH] [STDERR] cgp2fax -t 2 -n *"@pipe

5. Testing

Add the current user to the faxlords group

Open mail program and create two address book records:

• fax1 = <25678@fax1>
• fax2 = <15678@fax2>
• Create a sample fax in pdf format:

LANG=C a2ps -1q /etc/hosts -o- | ps2pdf - samplefax.pdf

Send mail with attached fax to fax1 and fax2