Folks:
I'm trying to set up a system to fax things to my clients, naturally
using Linux. I have an old 486 with the full Red Hat 6.1 installed on
it. Plus external fax modem.
I'm looking for fax software with the following characteristics:
1) Free/GNU-ish (it's being used in a commercial environment and I'm
cheap).
2) Operable via command line, as in:
sendmyfax 12134567890 myfaxfile
3) Will hopefully convert from common formats (postscript, ASCII, etc.)
to a fax format suitable for sending.
4) Does _not_ need to receive faxes, and in fact should be prohibited
from doing so.
5) Will play nice with an external fax machine on the same line.
6) Preferably will also allow faxes to be "mailed" to itself, and queue
them up for sending.
7) Cannot require interactive use, and particularly, must not require
any X or GUI components.
RH61 ships with efax, which is much supported, but very primitive. Near
as I can figure, it is a single-user app. This might work if that's the
best I can find. efax's author recommends qfax as a program which acts
as a mail-to-fax gateway, and uses efax for the grunt work. However,
qfax does not appear to be under active development, and requires a
patched older version of efax to operate properly. Moreover, looking at
qfax's skimpy docs, it sounds like it doesn't want anything but text
faxes. I can't really tell.
So the question is, does anyone know of anything specifically that might
satisfy some or all of the above requirements?
Paul
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