Re: [hylafax-users] No response to MPS or EOP

["Tetzel, Sascha" <Sascha.Tetzel@ps-sangross.de>]

I think some old fax systems dont send the EOP but the fax is fully
recieved.
I checked this on different fax systems


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Howard [mailto:faxguy@deanox.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 5:53 PM
> To: Tetzel, Sascha; 'Hylafax-Users (hylafax-users@hylafax.org)'
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] No response to MPS or EOP
> 
> 
> At 02:35 PM 5/4/01 +0200, Tetzel, Sascha wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is it possible to handle this error like RTNHandlingMethod in config 
> >??? Also "ignore","retransmit" etc..
> 
> It had come up before in discussion, particularly with Dmitry 
> (who developed the RTNHandlingMethod config option).
> 
> I think that the answer is no.  No response to MPS or EOP 
> generally is an indication of communication failure rather 
> than the refusal of a remote system to send that signal.  
> So... if HylaFAX were to continue on with the fax without 
> requiring a response, the likelihood that the fax would 
> actually succeed in sending is rather slim, and the 
> likelihood that this behavior would cause other problems is 
> much greater than that.
> 
> HylaFAX already behaves in a "retransmit" fashion.  It sends 
> MPS/EOP three times before giving up.
> 
> In the case of RTN, there are some fax systems (Canon?) which 
> just don't handle RTN, period.  That I know of, all systems 
> handle MPS/EOP.
> 
> Lee.
> 


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