Re: Fax-Sendmail

["George Pajari" <George.Pajari@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Claudio:

Thank you so much for the clarification.

> > Of course, not only do you have to configure sendmail.cf to recognise a
fax
> > address, you need to provide a delivery agent that will accept the
message
> > from sendmail and attempt to deliver it by fax.
>
> ... If I remember correctly sendmail.cf rules, the "standard address"
> fax=fanumeber@faxgateway-domain does not even require any special rule to
> be recognised.

Sorry if I did not make it clear. If faxgateway-domain is NOT running
sendmail and presumably knows how to handle addresses of the above form then
you are correct. Sendmail servers intermediate between the user and the
faxgateway-domain do not need any special rules.

If, on the other hand, faxgateway-domain is running sendmail then that
sendmail needs to be configured so that it knows the message is to be
delivered by a fax delivery agent (which will interprete the fax=faxnumber
part) and not to try to deliver it to a local user called "fax=faxnumber".

> > Sendmail does not come with such a delivery agent but there are
commercial
> > (such as ours) and open-source solutions to accomplish this.
....
> .... I only add the suggestion to choose an ietf-fax standard
> compliant agent, if you really wish to deliver a global interworking
> service to your customers.

We try, Claudio, we try.