Do the fax

28th July, 2005     Rants,

I decided finally, that I should find a use for the phone line that isn't being used here. My decision in the end was to use my old external 56k modem, and hook it up to a BSD box, and run a fax daemon to email and vice-versa type of gateway for when i might need to receive (and possibly one day send) a fax.

So I started by looking for a decent fax daemon program for linux, and i stumbled across Hylafax, which seems to look like it could do the job sitting on it's hands.

Great, I thought...

Problems arose after installing it, to realise that the number of configuration options that exist to get it working are extreme. It required more time setting it up, then it would have taken me to run the faxes to people.

So after 30 minutes of getting nowhere, i gave up (for now). It's been a long day, and this obviously was not a task for a day like today. One day I might decide to finally do something with that phone line again, but by then, I hope faxes are dead.