Re: [hylafax-users] A couple of things

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

On 2002.03.31 11:35 Riccardo Losselli wrote:

> About this, i've found that in my setup (relayfax 4.2.1) in the metalmail
> dir, the file mm* sometimes are created in a 1-mm* form.
> This ends in sending the fax with the body of relayfax mail included.
> I've solved the problem by changing the .procmail script for relayfax
> from rm -f mm* to rm -f *mm*.
> Do you see any particular problem with this?

This will cause problems whenever you have an attachment that matches the 
*mm* regex.  I'd recommend against it.  Under what conditions will 
metamail produce unnamed attachments as "1-mm*" ?  I'd say that the better 
approach would be to change the line from "rm -f mm*" to "rm -f mm* 1-mm*".

> They've asked me to translate in italian the messages hylafax gives.
> Is there any license problem in doing it? i would like, if the Hylafax
> is interested on it, to publish the translations making them freely 
> available.
> Is there any issue about it, or any interest?

Yes, there is quite a bit of interest.  If you're going to do this, have a 
little extra time, and would like to do the HylaFAX project a world of 
good... you should make it so that the language is defined and 
configured-in from a "dictionary" to the codebase at the time of 
compilation (like the way the manpage numbering goes) rather than simply 
making a patch.  So, people who would like to make other translations 
would only need to change the dictionary entries, rather than reproducing 
a patch.

> Sending is not a problem, it works
> well, we have a pair of modems just sending faxes, and process 
> xferfaxlog for accounting.

Be cautious.  If you're not careful with your implementation it would be 
rather easy to fool HylaFAX into "billing" someone else for your faxing.  
See:
http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112

> As a start, as i understand, it would
> be possibile to have 6 lines, with one modem each, and give the 6 
> numbers as fax numbers of
> our customers, right? then a faxrcvd script for each modem will route 
> the messages in mailbox.

Correct.  You should use etc/FaxDispatch instead of altering the faxrcvd 
file directly, though... if possible.  See 'man faxrcvd'.

> A smarter solution when fax numbers grow, would be using DID.
....
> But DID is not supported by hylafax.... so? what can i do?

HylaFAX does support routing by DID as of 4.1.1.  See 'man cid' and 'man 
hylafax-config'.  You've got to make sure you get the right hardware, 
though.

Lee.

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