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Re: [hylafax-users] hylafax mails empty pdf file



On 2002.02.25 10:51 Benjamin Adler wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just installed hylafax - it works quite well, except for one problem:
> 
> When hylafax receives a fax, it sends a mail to me, with the fax
> attached as a pdf. Problem is, the pdf file is 0 bytes in size. The .tif
> files in /var/spool/fax/recvq/ are intact, though, and when I execute
> the two lines in /var/spool/fax/bin/faxrcvd manually:
> 
> /usr/bin/tiff2ps -a -O fax00001.ps fax00001.tif
> /usr/bin/ps2pdf fax00001.ps fax00001.pdf
> 
> tiff2ps complains: "Fax3Decode1D: Warning, fax00001.tif: Premature EOL
> at scanline 1151 (got 0, expected 1728).", but I get a valid pdf file in
> the end.
> 
> What could be wrong here? Maybe a permission problem?

How did you set up pdf delivery?  faxrcvd-mail with 4.1 or FaxDispatch in 
4.1.1?

In any case, you probably don't have metamail installed.  If you have 
uuencode installed you can do this in FaxDispatch (I think):

MIMENCODE=uuencode;
FILETYPE=pdf;
SENDTO=FaxMaster;
  Lee.

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