First off, the Rocketport card works flawlessly. If you can obtain one, I highly recommend it. They're standard analogue loop-start ports; if you're looking for a T1 solution, you'll need to drop some extra money on either a Brooktrout or an Eicon Diva board. But for standard fax lines, the Rocketport card is perfect.
For the mail solution, I ended up going with Qmail on the HylaFAX box. Here's what is required to get QMail talking to Exchange:
- HylaFAX needs fax addresses formatted as Name@Number.fax (i.e.:Rob@7701234567.fax). Go to Exchange, navigate to your Connectors under the local Routing Group, and create a new SMTP Connector.
- On the [General] tab, set it to forward all mail for that connector to the HylaFAX server. You can use the FQDN here as well as the IP address.
- On the the [Address Space] tab, create an SMTP Address Space for a *.fax address. Set your cost & scope as needed. If you only have one, a cost of 1 and a scope of Entire organization should be good. Just make sure you aren't utilizing another fax solution which requires an address of *.fax. If you're using Rightfax, Faxination or GFI Faxmaker, there should be no conflict. They actually use the FAX address space native in Exchange (used for the "Business Fax" listing in your Contacts).
- Back on the HylaFAX server (or whichever server you have hosting QMail), configure for the following:
- /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains: Add the line .fax:fax
- /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-fax-default: Add the line /local/etc/mailfax
Bounce your services, and you're good to go. I used Ubuntu 9.04 for Hylamonster, so /etc/init.rd/hylafax restart does the trick.
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