Is fax receive / retrieving saved faxes planned? [Suggestions included.]
Since I see faxing is now possible, I'm just curious whether any 'receive to PC' / 'retrieve saved faxes' functionality is planned.
For some specifics on workflow/what would be desired, I'm pushing paper at a law office running Ubuntu with a LaserJet 3030 and would personally like to:
* Have received faxes both print and automatically be archived digitally (mentioned because some people might not anticipate desiring both at once)
* [especially in lieu of the above], be able to examine the "Reprint Last" memory without reprinting 100+ pages of unneeded documents
For the 'save to PC' feature, copying to an inbox is fine, the ability to sort by claimed transmitter or Caller ID would be cute but could be encoded in the filenames and left to local scripts. This seems like it could be handled by either a simple daemon or the session helper-app approach (which would allow whoever's logged in at the machine to receive 'their' faxes), but it would be nice if the helper app can have an option to daemonize and receive faxes without an X display (for those of us who'd rather have a 'faxuser' dumping everything into one location.
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In fact, if the time comes that you go ahead and write a receive GUI that sorts by fax ID, obvious cases to consider are:
* Expiring rules: Projects (and legal cases) end; it'd be cool to be able to add a 'save to destination' rule to last 6 months with a handy 'refresh' button.
* View by date: At the same time, nobody wants to miss something that just came in because it was properly sorted. Hardlinks seem to be vogue again, and make sense for this -- Keep everything in the chronological 'Inbox,' make a hardlink if the rule's destination is local, and fall back to copying if the hardlink creation fails because it's on another mount. Voila!
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And as y'all engineer future devices, at least on the "low end," it seems like the straightforward approach would be to allow the printer, through a configuration option, to expose a Mass Storage class endpoint (or on networked devices, a NFS or SAMBA share) with a read-only filesystem exposing the data. While standards (like DCIM?) would probably work here, even exposing whatever raw ".3g" format is used would meet the problem halfway.
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Also, glad to see you're open for business on Launchpad -- if nothing else, it makes asking small questions like this easier than bothering a mailing list.
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