An other way for postfix user without procmail

From Email2fax - email to fax gateway for Asterisk

[edit] There are only two little steps to go:

• add a new service to the master.cf
• add a new transport to the transport

[edit] add a new service to the master.cf

edit the /etc/postfix/master.cf file an append the following lines

 astfax       unix  -       n       n       -       1       pipe
     flags= user=asterisk argv=/usr/local/bin/email2fax

The first value "astfax" can be any name, which can not be found in the master.cf. The user is the asterisk-user, you have tested before. The path to the email2fax script must be correct! This is may preferred way...

[edit] add a new transport to the transport

Edit the file /etc/postfix/transport and append a line like

 sendfax@mydomain.com          localhost:astfax

What does it mean: All Emails to the adress "sendfax@mydomain.com" will be delivered to localhost and there the service "astfax". This service is registered in the master.cf.

Remark: At my installation, the line has to be

 sendfax@mydomain.com          astfax

Do a "postmap /etc/postfix/transport" to generate a new tansport.db.

Users, who have their own transport hash should be able, to translate these two lines into their environment. Forgive me, that I don't describe other hash-table-formats.

In order ensure the transport database is used, check that something like

 transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport

is in your main.cf.

That's all. You have to reload the postfix configuration.

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