faxing orders

[Lori]

I'm very new here. I have a customer who wants to have their orders faxed
to them. I've looked at a bunch of email-to-fax products out there, but
they all require that you "register" the emails from which you will be
sending. When the shopsite order is sent, it is actually sent from the
email address of the person ordering. So I don't have anything to register.
I need a workaround here, so it shows that it gets sent from a specific
email address. Or another product. Any help here?

[loren_d_c]

If you're fairly technical and have full control over your own
UNIX-based server you could set up your own email-to-fax service using
an opensource fax server package like HylaFax.

http://www.hylafax.org/howto/faxing.html#ss5.4

As far as existing services out there that do this kind of thing, I
don't know of any, but you could search Google for something like
'email-to-fax gateway'.

-Loren



Lori wrote:

I'm very new here. I have a customer who wants to have their orders faxed
to them. I've looked at a bunch of email-to-fax products out there, but
they all require that you "register" the emails from which you will be
sending. When the shopsite order is sent, it is actually sent from the
email address of the person ordering. So I don't have anything to register.
I need a workaround here, so it shows that it gets sent from a specific
email address. Or another product. Any help here?

[David H.]

The From and Reply To fields in the order notification e-mail do have the
shopper's information so that the merchant could easily reply to them.
However, that e-mail is generated on your server so if the Fax Service can
recognize e-mail from a certain domain or IP then it could work.

Another solution would be to have the order notification go to an e-mail
service like yahoo or gmail and then have it automatically forwarded from
there. Then the fax service could be configure to recognize that e-mail
address.

-Davd H.

"Loren" <loren_d_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dj0t1k$vau$1@eval.shopsite.com...

If you're fairly technical and have full control over your own UNIX-based
server you could set up your own email-to-fax service using an opensource
fax server package like HylaFax.

http://www.hylafax.org/howto/faxing.html#ss5.4

As far as existing services out there that do this kind of thing, I don't
know of any, but you could search Google for something like 'email-to-fax
gateway'.

-Loren



Lori wrote:
I'm very new here. I have a customer who wants to have their orders
faxed to them. I've looked at a bunch of email-to-fax products out
there, but they all require that you "register" the emails from which you
will be sending. When the shopsite order is sent, it is actually sent
from the email address of the person ordering. So I don't have anything
to register. I need a workaround here, so it shows that it gets sent from
a specific email address. Or another product. Any help here?

[Lori]

I tried the forwarding thing, but the "from" field is still set to the email
address of the person ordering. I need to somehow figure out away to get
the "from" field to be a set value.

"David H." <DavidAlanHills@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:dj162r$5q9$1@eval.shopsite.com...

The From and Reply To fields in the order notification e-mail do have the
shopper's information so that the merchant could easily reply to them.
However, that e-mail is generated on your server so if the Fax Service can
recognize e-mail from a certain domain or IP then it could work.

Another solution would be to have the order notification go to an e-mail
service like yahoo or gmail and then have it automatically forwarded from
there. Then the fax service could be configure to recognize that e-mail
address.

-Davd H.

"Loren" <loren_d_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dj0t1k$vau$1@eval.shopsite.com...
If you're fairly technical and have full control over your own UNIX-based
server you could set up your own email-to-fax service using an opensource
fax server package like HylaFax.

http://www.hylafax.org/howto/faxing.html#ss5.4

As far as existing services out there that do this kind of thing, I don't
know of any, but you could search Google for something like 'email-to-fax
gateway'.

-Loren



Lori wrote:
I'm very new here. I have a customer who wants to have their orders
faxed to them. I've looked at a bunch of email-to-fax products out
there, but they all require that you "register" the emails from which
you will be sending. When the shopsite order is sent, it is actually
sent from the email address of the person ordering. So I don't have
anything to register. I need a workaround here, so it shows that it gets
sent from a specific email address. Or another product. Any help here?

[Don Lundell]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:23:13 -0700, Lori <lori@lswebsitedesigns.com> wrote:

I tried the forwarding thing, but the "from" field is still set to the email
address of the person ordering. I need to somehow figure out away to get
the "from" field to be a set value.

If you're on a Unix server, modifying the From header is relatively easy with procmail/formail.

Here's an example (this one uses the To header):

http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html#tofield

- dc