FaxMail

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FaxMail is a small program to help you send faxes for free via email. With FaxMail you can write a message, attach an image or two, include a postscript document, then send the whole lot off as an email to be delivered as a fax message. It works using the internet's TPC remote printing service.

FaxMail is issued under the GNU General Public License. As such, you are pretty free to use this software as you wish. You can modify it as long as you continue to make the source code available with any redistribution.

Before installing FaxMail, check that your system contains the following components.

UNIX:

FaxMail is known to run on Linux, SunOS, OSF/1 and HP-UX but should run under most flavours of UNIX.

Tk/Tcl:

You will need the Tcl scripting language and the accompanying Tk widget set (version 4.0 or later). If you don't have these installed, check out http://www.scriptics.com/

convert:

FaxMail lets you fax most popular image formats, but you will need to install the `ImageMagick' package if you haven't already got it. ImageMagick provides a utility called `convert' which can convert most images to postscript. You can download ImageMagick from http://www.imagemagick.org