Mgetty+Sendfax Archive/Documentation Centre

What is it?

For those of you that do not know mgetty+sendfax yet: it's a reliable and proven fax send and receive solution for unix and linux. But it can do much more... so read the docs and be surprised.

Available HTML Documentation:

Complete Hypertext Manual

mgetty+sendfax frequently asked questions (FAQ) (Text version)

HTML versions of the man pages

Mailing list and Mailing list archive

There is a mailing list (mgetty@muc.de) and Newsgroup dedicated to mgetty. The newsgroup is archived by Marc Schaefer, schaefer@alphanet.ch.

If you want to get on the mailing list, send mail to mgetty-request@muc.de.

Modem-Base

Simone Demmel has contributed a tool to enter success/failure results with certain modems (and possibly, firmware versions). You can find it here.

Documentation in other Formats

Some pointers to other related sites on the Net...

Juergen Kosel's mgetty/vgetty page (German).
The TKvoice frontend to mgetty/vgetty, plus some examples and docs
An introductory article to setting up vgetty (as of 1.1.25)
Another introductory article to setting up an answering machine on Linux (as of vgetty 1.1.28)
The Serial Programming Howto
Josh Gentry's Linux Dialin Server Setup Guide - good stuff!
Marc Schaefer's MVM/vgetty examples page
How to set up AutoPPP under Linux (allow seamless dial-in from Windows95 clients).
The Scanners+Faxes section of the Loads of Linux Links project at sourceforge

Source Archives (Download Section)

source archive (HTML page)
latest BETA version (1.1.37, about 1060 Kbyte)
latest official release (1.0.0, 601 Kbyte) (note: quite historic)

Contributed software:

Ralf Schleicher's FAXDVI program suite to optimize TeX usage with mgetty (21 Kbyte)
Ian Philipps' PBMtoDOT conversion program (18K)
Jef Uphoff's Remote-Fax utility for network faxing (34K)
Harald Milz Emacs Fax frontend (34K)
Frank D. Cringle's superfast fax viewer for X11 (55K)
Barry Callahan's mgetty windows client (prototype)

Voice-Stuff (vgetty and such)

vgetty: Use your modem as an answering machine
And on top of vgetty: MVM, a very powerful voice mail system.
Brian McGovern's CallTree extention to vgetty (design voice menu trees for vgetty)
Bjoern Giesler's graphical answering machine user interface: FortyTwo.

MIRROR sites

This stuff is mirrored on the following sites, which may be faster to reach than mgetty.greenie.net, or have less load:

currently none :-(

Formerly, the following sites had also been mirrors, but they are broken for some or the other reason. I keep the list, in case some of them might be fixed in future.

ftp.leo.org (Germany) (directory reorganization)
ftp.mathematik.th-darmstadt.de (Germany) (unknown hostname)
ftp.chem.tue.nl (Netherlands) (timeout)
ftp.cv.nrao.edu (USA) (directory reorganization)
cis.nmclites.edu (USA) (unknown hostname)
linux.mit-lab.co.kr (Korea) (unknown hostname)
ftp.uvt.ro (Romania) (directory reorganization)

Gert Doering, 2005-11-26