Ashley Roll (ash@DIGITALNEMESIS.COM) wrote:

> > Have you considered sending an email message instead of a fax?  Since
> > you're willing to make a phone call, it could just as well be
> > to an ISP or a customer's machine running an SMTP server.
> > The SMTP client protocol is rather easy to implement.  See RFC 821.
> > I think there are even email to fax gateways.
>
> Unfortunately, this would be much more complex.. Because to talk SMTP you
> first need to be able to talk TCP/IP, and to get to TCP/IP through a modem
> (at a standard ISP) you would need to talk something like PPP.. Not to
> mention all the fun of keeping usernames and passwords up to date :)

You could directly implemnt SMTP over a serial line (or UUCP (which is
getting older than me)) SMTP is nice & plain text - really easy to do in
a PIC :)

Of course you could impliment TCP but thats going to get really fun :)

Antony Wuth

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