Subject: Internet FAX via MIME

From: "greg cox;WR3058" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 12:07:35 -0800 (PDT)

I read something somewhere about a new way to send FAXes across the
Internet, using MIME.  

WIll this be possible with PINE as the mail agent?  Does anyone know what
other software / hardware is required to create such a system?

Any information or clarifications would be appreciated.

Thanks

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* Greg Cox
* Washington State Univ.
* [email-masked]
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From: Bill Campbell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 13:28:11 PDT

> I read something somewhere about a new way to send FAXes across the
This would be pretty easy since faxes are typically tiff/f format.
The MIME enclosure then could be processed by a tiff->printer
routine or image viewer.

> other software / hardware is required to create such a system?
We send faxes out using our MTA to divert faxes to the fax delivery
software which renders ascii->tiff before faxing, by adding an Action:
header it will take the body of the e-mail as troff input typesetting it
before sending the fax. 

The troff solution works quite nicely either from Elm where we
can specify the Action or other user-defined headers, but I don't
know how this would be done with pine (I haven't figured out how
to get a Reply-To: header yet :-).

Bill
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