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Cover Pages

A cover page is automatically prepended to the document that includes your name, the destination FAX number, the date, the mail room FAX number, and a voice contact phone number (the student staff office).

Some of the cover page fields can be modified with options to sendfax. Some selected details from the sendfax man page are included below. Please see the man page for additional information.

     -c comments Pass comments to  the  faxcover(1)  program  for
                 inclusion in the comments field of any generated
                 cover page.

     -f <from>   Use <from> as the identity of the facsimile sender.
                 Otherwise the sender is the user that invoked
                 sendfax.  The sender is an account name to which the
                 HylaFAX software should direct notification messages.
                 The from identity may be a fullblown ``From:'' line,
                 e.g.  e.g. ``Joe Blow <joe@foo.com>'' and
                 ``joe@foo.com (Joe Blow)'' are acceptable.  If no
                 host-part is specified in the from string the local
                 hostname is used.  This option is useful when sendfax
                 is invoked on behalf of another user, such as in the
                 implementation of an electronic mail to fax gateway.

     -r regarding
                 Pass regarding to the  faxcover(1) program as the
                 value  of  the  ``Re:''  field  of any generated
                 cover page.

     -x company  Pass company to the faxcover(1) program as  the
                 destination company name.

     -y location Pass location to the faxcover(1) program as  the
                 destination company's location.

It is possible to suppress the automatically-generated cover page and prepend your own to your FAX job. See the man pages for sendfax and faxcover for more information.



Brad Plecs 2008-08-22