{"id":267,"date":"2009-05-14T03:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T01:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raftaman.net\/?p=267"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:42","slug":"send-a-fax-transmission-confirmation-via-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Send a fax transmission confirmation via eMail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as you can <a href=\"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=258\">formward incoming faxes<\/a> to you eMail account, you can send a transmission confirmation when a facsimile was sent successfully. You can even send a copy of the fax along with it.<\/p>\n<p><code>bin\/notify<\/code> is the command script invoked by the facsimile server to notify a user about the status of an outbound job. It parses <code>etc\/FaxNotify<\/code> so you can customize the script by editing the parameter file.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the variable names are quite different from the <code>bin\/faxrcvd<\/code> script. To send a pdf copy of you outgoing facsimiles to you eMail address you have to change <code>FaxNotify<\/code> as follows:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; light: true; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nRETURNFILETYPE=pdf;\r\nmailaddr=user@domain.tld;\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The allowed values for the <code>RETURNFILETYPE<\/code> variable are just the same as for <code>FILETYPE<\/code> in the <code>bin\/faxrcvd<\/code> script: ps, tif or pdf. <\/p>\n<p>And you can of course alter the <code>bin\/notify<\/code> script itself, too. But as <code>bin\/faxrcvd<\/code> it is part of the package distribution and subject to being overwritten by subsequent upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Resources:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hylafax.sourceforge.net\/man\/notify.php\">http:\/\/hylafax.sourceforge.net\/man\/notify.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as you can formward incoming faxes to you eMail account, you can send a transmission confirmation when a facsimile was sent successfully. You can even send a copy of the fax along with it. bin\/notify is the command script invoked by the facsimile server to notify a user about the status of an outbound job. It parses etc\/FaxNotify so&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=267\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,18],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-centos","tag-hylafax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}