mass mailing with sendfax?

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Hi,

On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 02:24:32PM +0200, Dieter Blocher wrote:
> i have to fax more than 1000 faxes.
> how can i do that with sendfax?

Call it from a loop...

> iŽve got a version, that doesn't provide the option -M or -m to read the
> faxnummers out of a text-file.

That's normal, and documented - never found time to implement that.

> Than IŽll try it with a little script in Perl:
> 
> ...
> while ($_ = <FILEHANDLE>) {
> 
> exec "faxspool $_ fax1.tif fax2.tif";
> next;
> }

That should work fine (except that you shouldn't use .TIF files, because
scaling will most likely result in bad quality).

> ...
> 
> But it dosen't work.

What does "it doesn't work" mean?  Does it give an error message?  Does
your computer explode?  Provide data!

gert
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