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Title: SME 5.5 Hylafax installation
Post by: daley on December 17, 2002, 05:09:03 PM

Hi there,

it may not be the new topic, but i would like to know the differences between the start-support contrib - http://www.star-support.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/hylafax/install_hylafax.bak and http://www.vangee.nl/sme/hylafax/ setup...  pls advise.

regards,
daley

Title: Re: SME 5.5 Hylafax installation
Post by: Bob Todd on December 18, 2002, 02:57:40 AM

well the Star support setup is an install script that if you save as a file onto your server and run it from the command prompt it will attempt to perform all the basic install options which the vangee site has skipped - you'll see the vangee site refers to another page for the initial installation.

Maybe someone on here has actually got it all working on SME 5.5 and would like to point out which instructions they followed.

Would also be worth a search on here for more Hylafax questions - I know I've seen a number of references to it in the past couple of months.

Title: Re: SME 5.5 Hylafax installation
Post by: Daley on December 18, 2002, 04:45:33 AM

What shd be the better advise for the hylafax configuration? a hylafax daemon (star-support) by itself or integrate with qmail (vangee)? i think this may have issue for SME future upgrade and consideration...

regards,
daley

Title: Re: SME 5.5 Hylafax installation
Post by: guestHH on December 18, 2002, 09:00:10 AM

Hi,

I installed both ;-)

First the star-support script which provides a fax gateway for any windows application connected to the lan and later I installed Vangee to use it for faxing mail messages directly out of my mailclient, thus a sort of forwarding by fax.
They live happily together within my 5.5 box.

Regards,
guestHH

Title: Re: SME 5.5 Hylafax installation
Post by: Daley on December 18, 2002, 10:14:31 AM

Hi RequestedDeletion,

Just to get this right, first, the star-support setup will create the outbound fax gateway, does it also receive incoming fax? then the Vangee will integrate the inbound fax and forwarding to the correct user account, correct?

by the way, do you also need to amend the fax "path" as described in http://www.sulman.org/sme/hylafax.html.

regards,
daley

Title: Re: SME 5.5 Hylafax installation
Post by: van GEE on December 20, 2002, 04:38:51 PM

>> .....then the Vangee will integrate the inbound fax and
>> forwarding to the correct user account, correct?......

No, the "Vangee" will create a gateway for faxing emails.
This can be convinient if you want to develop a call-me-back
function on a website. The company (that doesn't check mail
every day) will receive a fax if a website visitor want's to be
called back.

Or other example. If you want to develop a pizza ordering website.
Your server can send a fax to the pizza-place so they don't need
a PC and a internet connection in their shop.

Hope this info makes things clear.
Ewald