TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: linux_bbs
to: andrew clarke
from: Michiel Broek
date: 2005-05-06 22:21:06
subject: Re: fax + bbs

Hi Andrew,


andrew clarke wrote to All:
ac> Hi All,
ac> 
ac> Possibly opening a can of worms, but can anyone here recommend some free 
ac> software for Linux (or FreeBSD) that will set up a fax modem to answer fax 

ac> calls, but if the call was not a fax, fall back to a FidoNet mailer, to 
ac> work as a FidoNet node?  I'd like to run this on a Pentium 133 with 64 Mb 
ac> RAM and a 1 Gb HDD.  This will be the PC's sole function.  FidoNet mail 
ac> processing, fax viewing, etc. will be done by another machine on my 
ac> network.
ac> 
ac> The software should also be able to make outbound calls.
ac> 
ac> Maybe someone here has a setup just like this?


mgetty can answer Fax, Fido, PPP and regular tty calls. It has some fax
tools too.


    Greetings, Michiel Broek

Email:   mbse{at}mbse.dds.nl
Fidonet: Michiel Broek at 2:280/2802

... On an executive's desk: Nobody's perfect.  I'm the perfect example.

--- MBSE BBS v0.71.2 (GNU/Linux-i386)
ac> * Origin: Blizzard of Ozz, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (3:633/267)
* Origin: MBSE Linux BBS. Made in the Netherlands (2:280/2802)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270
@PATH: 280/2802 5003 379/1 106/2000 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.