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Old 24th December 2008
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Originally Posted by Oko
Can you actually configure efax to automatically receive faxes. I
looked today man pages for it and appears to me that it can not run as
a daemon. Am I wrong?
I'm not an expert on efax, but it seems it might be possible, because
in the fax(1) man page it says:

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If efax has been installed for automatic fax reception you can
use the fax queue command to check for files in the incoming spool
directory. ... Privileged users can use the fax stop and fax start
commands to stop and restart the fax reception daemon.
That said, I don't recall ever having used it that way myself. IIRC to
receive a fax all I did was start a new console or xterm and within it
run "fax receive" when the phone rang. Again, not sophisticated but it
did the trick for a one-off co-ordinated fax every few years.

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Originally Posted by Oko
The another thing would be to configure the damn
thing to relay phone traffic so that voice calls are send to phone
secretary. All of that appears to be possible with HylaFax.
I guess this would require special modem capability. See the efax man
page section on "Accepting both fax and data calls".
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