Hylafax: Ugh

I tried to setup hylafax today. I had it going a few years ago. I even had a neat hack where I would have it take all inbound faxes, convert them into pdf and store them in directory accessible from the web. It was pretty cool. I figured I’d re-create that and maybe add some Python-Fu to have an outbound directory but alas it wasn’t meant to be. I ran around in circles for three hours trying to eliminate the problems but got no-where until I installed efax and right off the bat the fax just worked. That eliminated the problems of (The modem broke between last time and now, the modem doesn’t like the VoIP line, and my new HP A-I-O doesn’t like the fax modem) leaving Hylafax is misconfigured. Here we go again, another mailing list……