PMDF System Manager's Guide

The pop-up FAX addressing form can be invoked from PMDF MAIL, VMS MAIL, or DECwindows MAIL. When the special address FAX-FORM is used (IN%FAX-FORM from VMS MAIL or DECwindows MAIL), a pop-up form will be presented to the user. With this form, one or more FAX addresses can be specified merely by filling in the blanks. With the exception of DECwindows MAIL, this form will appear as soon as the address line (To:, cc:, or Bcc:) on which FAX-FORM is specified is entered. With DECwindows MAIL, the form will not appear until after the SEND button is pressed in the "mail create" window. Note that the pop-up form can also be invoked from PMDF SEND via the /FAX qualifier.

Conventional addresses can be given along with FAX addresses; e.g., mail sent to the addresses

in%"bob@example.com",in%fax-form,in%"mrocheck@sample.com"

will be sent to bob@example.com, to mrochek@sample.com, and to whatever FAX addresses are specified with the pop-up form. The pop-up form can be used with To:, cc:, or Bcc: addresses.

To simplify things further for VMS MAIL and DECwindows MAIL users, by issuing the command

MAIL> SET FORWARD/USER=FAX-FORM IN%FAX-FORM

from within VMS MAIL, you can establish FAX-FORM as an address to which users can send mail in order to invoke the pop-up form; i.e., users can then use the address "FAX-FORM" in order to call up the FAX addressing form. See Section 21.1.1.1 for details on configuring PMDF MAIL to recognize a name other than FAX-FORM for invoking the form.

The pop-up form is self-documenting. The cursor keys can be used to move from field to field or within fields; when each field is entered a descriptive comment and example appear towards the bottom of the screen. Through the use of an option file, the contents of a help screen selected by CTRL/G or the HELP key can be specified. (The HELP button is used from the DECwindows form.) Moreover, the text of the comment lines displayed for each field can be altered with an option file. See Section 21.2.1.1 for details on how to set up an option file.

The "Alias name" field on the pop-up form can be used to store the address being specified in the user's personal alias database. (If necessary, the pop-up form will create the database.)

If defined, the translation values of the logical names PMDF_FAX_SETUP, PMDF_FAX_SFN, PMDF_FAX_STN, and PMDF_FAX_AUTHORIZATION will be used, respectively, for the SETUP, SFN, STN, and AUTH attribute-value pairs in the addresses generated by the pop-up form.

By defining the logical PMDF_TEXT_FAX_DOMAIN, the default value of the field "FAX gateway address" can be controlled. By default, this field is filled with the string "text-fax".

An implicit source route can "invisibly" be added to the addresses generated by the pop-up form. The source route to use should be specified with the logical PMDF_TEXT_FAX_ROUTE. For instance, if this logical has the value sample.com and the form is to produce the address /fn=1234/@text-fax, then the actual address output by the form will be @example.com:/fn=1234/@text-fax.