ubfax

NAME

ubfax – send a fax

SYNOPSIS

ubfax

DESCRIPTION

ubfax sends a fax using efax.

ubfax is installed as an alias program that can be called by sendmail. Therefore it expects it’s input to be an email source (headers and attachments)

to use ubfax simply email the file to be faxed as an attachment to ubfax@yourdomain

Valid attachments are text, postscript, and pdf files

The fax number and comments are part of the subject of the email. The subject format is:

<fax number>*<subject>

When the fax has been sent, the subject part of the message subject is returned to the sender with a failed or success indicator

FLAGS

FLAG ARGUMENT TYPE DESCRIPTION

ERRORS

EXAMPLE

ubmail –nostdin –attach message.pdf –subject “555 8976 * MY MESSAGE” ubfax@somedomain.com

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