Mail to Fax gateway: Principles

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## 1. Principles

Here is a basic explanation of how it works, from a user standpoint.

## 1.1 How to mail

There are three email address formats allowed to send fax.

- phone@fax.your_domain This is the simple case. It lacks the ability to encode the recipient name on the fax front page. If you text do contain this information, all is well.
- name@phone.fax.your_domain This format encode both the phone number and the recipient name. For example, many will encode an email-fax like this jacques.gelinas@999-9999.fax.solucorp.qc.ca This lets the fax gateway extract both the phone number and the full name, so a nice front page may be built.
- alias@fax.your_domain Linuxconf lets you define a list of alias for fax. This is handy when a lot of people need to fax to the same person.

## 1.2 The attachments

The mail to fax gateway will support email attachment and will try to convert them to formats managed by the fax engine you are using. Often a fax will be an empty mail with a nice attachment in postscript or any suitable format.

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