[NCLUG] linux-based "LanFax" server for an HP scanner

[Stephen Warren]

On 08/07/2013 12:56 PM, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> I recently bought an HP Scanjet 8500 (networked scanner), whose main
> purpose will be to email scanned jobs to various users.
...
> 
> The part that's killing me right now is "notification". According to
> the document above, the "Lan Fax" server may drop "notification files"
> into the samba share, with the same base name as the .tif/.hpf pair,
> and with extensions .001, .002, ..., .00n for the first, second, and
> n-th phone/fax number listed in the .hpf.
> 
> If the user sending the fax requested "notification" and entered an
> email address, the scanner will interpret the .00x notification files
> and email a status report (success, error, etc) to the user.

Why not have your cron-job send the emails instead of relying on the
scanner?