Technical information

INSTALLING VSI-FAX SERVER ON UNIX/LINUX
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Refer to Internet email servers.
Important
When setting up your POP3 fax routing email account, do not use an email account that receives normal
email. The fax server will try to process all received email on this account as an inbound fax, causing
drastically poor fax routing performance or unexpected application behavior. Furthermore, the fax server
will remove email messages from this inbox. Therefore, Esker strongly suggests setting up an email user
like autofax for your POP3 fax routing as well as to ensure that this email user is left off distribution lists at
your company.
21. Enter the cover page information. This information will appear on a typical cover page. Users can change this
information when they send a fax, or they can create other cover pages that show different information. In
most cases however, this will be the information you want most of your fax recipients to see.
22. Set automatic start at system boot for VSI-FAX Admin Server and Fax Server.
23. Start Admin Server and Fax Server now to be able to test the fax server after installation.
24. The installation is complete. Thank you for using VSI-FAX.
Installing VSI-FAX using a downloaded file
To extract and install using the server.tgz file, follow the instructions below.
1. Create a temporary directory.
2. Copy the server.tgz file into the temporary directory.
3. Uncompress/unzip the file. If you have gunzip, then execute the following command:
gunzip server.tgz
If you don't have gunzip on your system, move the server.tgz file to server.tar.Z with the following command:
mv server.tgz server.tar.Z
and then uncompress the file with the following command:
uncompress server.tar.Z
4. Extract the contents of the tar file with the following command:
tar xvf server.tar
5. Run the installation program with the following command:
./install.sh
6. Select the Fax Server package.
The installation program will guide you through the remainder of the fax server installation. Follow the on-screen
instructions.
Tip
The installation program will ask if you want to start the fax scheduler. We strongly suggest that you start the fax
scheduler. Otherwise, you will need to manually start the fax scheduler before you can test the fax server.