Samba PDF Email

[Justin Bennett]

Thanks for the idea, I have a hylafax server we use, I'll play see what 
I come up with, not sure if it's even got any practical use....


Robert Meyer wrote:

>Just a thought... You could install Hylafax on Linux and use one of the Hylafax
>clients on windows.  I've done this before.  You might have to mangle the
>windows end to fill in the information from the driver but I think that one of
>the client programs is written in python, you might be able to modify it to
>accept the destination information from the business system as command line
>arguments.
>
>Just a thought...
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>yeah thats a posibility but I was hoping to do this for Purchase Orders 
>>and such generated from our Buisiness System (oracle reports). We fax 
>>POs internationally, easier and cheaper to email them. Wouldn't work to 
>>well for that. May have to settle for emailing it to the users, and then 
>>they could forward the email.
>>
>>
>>Brett Hamann wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Justin Bennett" <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com>
>>>To: <nflug at nflug.org>
>>>Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:39 AM
>>>Subject: Samba PDF Email
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I'm creating a samba printer that will email a PDF, could be usefull for
>>>>emailing POs ect. I have the script and printer setup, I modified the
>>>>script to create a PDF from samba, and had it attach to an email and
>>>>send, rather than save it in a users home directory. It works fine when
>>>>I hard code the to address in the script. I was wondering how to pass an
>>>>email address to samba from windows, so I can then hand it to my script.
>>>>I assume I may need a custom print driver?
>>>>
>>>>My Setup:
>>>>[pdfmail]
>>>>  path = /tmp
>>>>  printable = yes
>>>>  guest ok = yes
>>>>  print command = /usr/bin/emailpdf %s %u
>>>>  lpq command =
>>>>  lprm command =
>>>>
>>>>emailpdf:
>>>>#!/bin/sh
>>>>DATE=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S`
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>OUTDIR=/tmp
>>>>/usr/bin/ps2pdf13 /tmp/$1 $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
>>>>chmod 660 $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
>>>>sendEmail -m "Emailed PDF" -f xxx at dynabrade.com -t xxx at dynabrade.com -u
>>>>"Emailed PDF" -a $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
>>>>rm $1
>>>>rm $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
>>>>
>>>>Justin Bennett
>>>>Network Administrator
>>>>RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
>>>>Dynabrade, Inc.
>>>>8989 Sheridan Dr.
>>>>Clarence, NY 14031
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>---------------------------------------------
>>>>This message has been scanned for viruses and
>>>>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>>>>believed to be clean.
>>>>---------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Maybe have the user put the recipient's email in the document, then you
>>>could use awk to pull out "Email:user". I did this to pull out a word
>>>documents title before I fax it.
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>Brett
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------------- 
>>>This message has been scanned for viruses and
>>>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
>>>believed to be clean.  
>>>---------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>-- 
>>Justin Bennett
>>Network Administrator
>>RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
>>Dynabrade, Inc.
>>8989 Sheridan Dr.
>>Clarence, NY 14031
>> 
>>
>>
>>    
>>
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-- 
Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 

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