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From: bode@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (michael.bode)
Newsgroups: alt.fax,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Sending Faxes using AT&T Mail
Summary: Is it possible to send processed files (eg. by troff)?
Keywords: AT&T Mail
Message-ID: <2000@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 89 13:37:23 GMT
References: <29469@cornell.UUCP> <602@pegasus.ATT.COM>
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In article <602@pegasus.ATT.COM>, psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
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> 
> Sending to fax and telex is easy:  just pretend that AT&T Mail knows
> about two systems (called fax and telex), and that the phone number of
> the fax machine and the telex account are users on those systems.  For
> example, you could send mail to attmail!fax!1-201-576-3321, and it'd
> show up on my fax machine (the hyphens are ignored).  If you can
> persuade your mailer to add parenthetical messages at the end of the
> To: line, you can include (answerback/attentionTo) for a telex message,
> or some banner information (such as the name of the recipient) to a fax
> message.
> 
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I tried this by sending mail to my own fax machine and it worked. The file appeared on the fax machine shortly after I had sent it exactly as it was stored. My question is now: Can I process a file with a text-processor (say, troff) and send the output directly to a fax machine?