Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Hylafax

[Brian Johnson]

In oo.org you use spadmin to create a special 'fax' device.  Essentially it
just takes a command that you enter which would fire up the fax device.
There's info on the internet for setting this up under both linux and windows.
 You can even set up a toolbar button in oowriter like the print button to
start the faxout.

We use mgetty to receive faxes and I have it making a printout and a png image
that it emails to select individuals as a notification system.

We don't send directly from the computer much, but I set up oo.org on the
linux machines to use fax4cups + sendfax to create a cups printer which feeds
postscript and the number to dial to the sendfax program.  I can document it
if you like.

I've also submitted a feature request to oo.org to auto-sense when a cups
printer is using the fax4cups driver and auto configure it as a fax device so
that the admin/user doesn't need to use spadmin on each workstation.

I haven't been able to figure out how to pull contact info directly from
phpgw.  When we do a fax list, we export it from the phpgw addressbook in
oo.org calc format and do a mail merge in oo.org to fax them all.




Bob Crandell (address@hidden) wrote:
>
> I have no clients on Linux workstations though I'm trying to get
> somebody to upgrade.  How are you using OO.o to send faxes?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 00:28 +1000, Dave Hall wrote:
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > Never used WHFC, OO.o on Linux works well for my clients :)
> >
> > Does WHFC support an LDAP backend?
> >
> > btw the "old way" data will be dropped in 0.9.18, it was kept in 16 just
> > in case an upgrade went awry people wouldn't loose data.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 13:51 +0000, Bob Crandell wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Some of my clients are using Hylafax to receive faxes which then show up 
> > > in
> > > their email.  WHFC has matured enough that I would like to start offering
> > > that.  Contact information seems to be stored 2 ways in phpgw.  The "new 
> > > way"
> > > and the "old way".  I can't find the voice and fax numbers in the "new 
> > > way"
> > > and the phpgw interface can't see the changes made through WHFC to the
> > > phpgw_addressbook database, the "old way".  WHFC offers you a choice of 
> > > using
> > > one database or two.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
>
>
>
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