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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!linden.fortnet.org!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@xpert.net (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: flexfax foiled by sendmail Date: 17 Sep 1996 15:26:43 GMT Organization: Expert Internet Service Lines: 26 Message-ID: <51mfvj$fel@hops.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: homefolk.entertain.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (beta 2) Hi! I have BSDI 2.0 with patches, and I am trying to run a 'sendfax' command via sendmail. I have data which I want to fax from my flexfax server, which is conveniently transmitted by emailing that data to the server. A Perl script is invoked by putting an entry in the /etc/aliases file thus: fax_server: "|/usr/local/scripts/fax_server" so that when I send mail to the fax_server username, the script is invoked and parses STDIN, stripping mail headers and sending the remaining data to a sendfax command. The problem is that when I run the sendfax command from sendmail, it crashes with the following error: sendfax: Could not figure out who you are I have read the man pages for sendfax, and tried to use various combinations of the -f argument to satisfy sendfax, but with no luck. Can anyone make suggestions as to how I can get around this problem? Please email dwatson@entertain.com. Thanks!