On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:18:02PM EDT, Matt Price wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:09:29PM -0400, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:40:49AM EDT, Matt Price wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I was just looking around at > > > > > > http://www.tpc.int/ > > > > > > which seems to be a great alternative to the hassle of using fax > > > machines on the rare occasions when I need them. There's an email > > > interface which looks like it would be pretty straightforward to use, > > > but would be made more straightforward by the use of macros and > > > things. I just wondered whether anyone out there on the list has > > > played around with this and figured out a setup that works pretty > > > well. > > > > If I were going to use it, I'd setup a mutt_query script that notices > > numbers, converts them into international standard form, and then turns > > them into TPC-acceptable email addresses using my address book (e.g., > > 406-6766 => remote-printer.Dave_Cohen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). > > However, being that there are many holes in their coverage > > (including myself, for instance), I'd probably want to make it query > > http://www.tpc.int/verify.html before mapping it into ".iddd.tpc.int," > > and otherwise map it into ".sendfax.yourdomain.com" or whatever without > > converting the number into international standard form. (It's too bad > > they don't provide a DNS interface to checking coverage of a number.) > > ooh, sounds neat. Um, are you talking about the mutt_query.pl script > that coogle found for me? Or about the built-in query function? I'm > asusming you mean the latter, The former is simply a convenient option for the latter :-) > & that the idea is to modify whatever > script one normally uses to complete addresses well, not quite > -- I think on my > system it's /usr/lib/mutt/debian-ldap-query . unfortunately I truly > do not understand perl... Rather than modifying the debian-supplied script, simply set query to your own script that'll call debian-ldap-query if it gives up. This also allows you to upgrade your distribution without clobbering your changes. - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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