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Mail to Fax gateway

Introduction

Many technologies exist allowing faxing straight from your workstation. Many are proprietary or OS specific. On the other hand, the electronic mail is now well established with open standards: Anyone can mail. A mail to fax gateway provides a global solution to the fax problem: Now anyone can fax, from anywhere, using any operating system. A mail to fax gateway introduces a new problem: Now anyone can fax, from anywhere, using any operating system. The mail to fax gateway of Linuxconf is not a faxing system but a sophisticated gateway with many access control strategies giving you control on who may fax from where on your server.

1. Principles

1.1 How to mail
1.2 The attachments

2. Setup

2.1 DNS management
2.2 Setting sendmail
2.3 Access control

3. Access control details

3.1 Local faxes
3.2 Fax users

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