Re: flexfax: far too many faxes

[Michael Stevens <mstevens@imaginet.co.uk>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 08:39:12AM +1000, Keith Gray wrote:
> Michael Stevens wrote:
> > Can anyone explain how hylafax might have decided to send a fax 30
> > times instead of just that once that I was intending? All I can see
> > from the logs are a number of errors about 'unable to transmit page'.
> This would be known as a classic RTN (retrain) problem.
> It is on the archives.
> The receiving fax machine has not given a suitable response
> so HylaFAX has retried 10-12 times to resend 3 attempts!
> 
> A fix is available for 4.0 and is already patched in 4.1.
> 
> Sometimes changing the transmit fax resolution helps.

Thanks, sorry for the vagueness of the original message but I was a
bit annoyed about the whole thing at the time.

Looking at the logs I can see it retraining from 9600baud all the way
down to 2400 baud. The release involved is the stable debian one:

Package: hylafax-server
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: comm
Installed-Size: 2504
Maintainer: Christophe Le Bars <clebars@debian.org>
Source: hylafax
Version: 4.0.2-8
Depends: libc6, libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), libjpeg62, libstdc++2.9, libtiff3g,
zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), libtiff-tools, gs
Suggests: hylafax-client, hylafax-doc, mgetty
Conflicts: mgetty-fax
Conffiles:
 /etc/cron.monthly/hylafax 95fd48d420ec3e5deb54a979fb1563ba
 /etc/cron.weekly/hylafax b64571aad96e7a24821d6bbb8840ee9d
 /etc/init.d/hylafax 6f460b7a9a01e1fd5db50ddd225df09b
 /etc/hylafax/cover.templ 11ea262d8639d257f48738c9a20bf299
 /etc/hylafax/dialrules b4c8696c21c1905898ba0141e40f7d9c
 /etc/hylafax/hosts a75eaa4c79f6d090ce3960e091d6a4df
 /etc/hylafax/config 3a71c7e16e2947b131f6a4d05745780c
 /etc/hylafax/hfaxd.conf 3ffc9ee448d709daaf4da14eaea18a3b
Description: HylaFAX server software
 This package support the sending and receiving of facsimiles, the
 polled
 retrieval of facsimiles and the send of alphanumeric pages.
 .
 The host running the server must have either a Class 1, Class 2, or a
 Class 2.0 fax modem attached to one of its serial ports. End-user
 applications to manage the transmission of documents via facsimile
 are
 provided separately by the hylafax-client package.

I will investigate 4.1. Can you point me at the patches of which you speak?