Re: [hylafax-users] Problem with sender identity in faxmail

[Marco Steinacher <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard wrote:
> On 2004.05.05 13:26 Marco Steinacher wrote:
>
> > If the incoming email has a from-line like
> >
> >  From: " " <user@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > faxmail is not able to queue the job (460 Failed to submit job 159:
> > Unspecified reason).
> > Obviously there is a problem when faxmail sets 'JPARM FROMUSER "" ""'.
>
> Is the problem the quotes, or is it the whitespace?

I think the problem is the whitespace, because in the logfile I found 
the following entries corresponding to the failed job:

FaxQueuer[1729]: SUBMIT JOB 159
FaxQueuer[1729]: sendq/q159: line 52: Null or missing sender in job request
FaxQueuer[1729]: JOB 159: Invalid or corrupted job description file
FaxQueuer[1729]: NOTIFY: bin/notify "doneq/q159" "rejected" ""


I did some testing with the following results:

1. From-Header: 'From: " " <name@xxxxxxxxxx>':
-> ERROR
-> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to " ".

2. From-Header: 'From: "My Name" <name@xxxxxxxxxx>':
-> NO error
-> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to "My Name""".

3. From-Header: 'From: My Name <name@xxxxxxxxxx>':
-> NO error
-> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to "My Name".

4. From-Header: 'From: <name@xxxxxxxxxx>':
-> NO error
-> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to "<default-value>".

5. From-Header: 'From: name@xxxxxxxxxx':
-> NO error
-> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to "<default-value>".


So there is only a problem if there are one or more whitespace in the 
quotes but nothing else.

An acceptable workaround for me is to set the sender identity with 
X-FAX-From to a fixed string for all messages but maybe it would be good 
to fix this in faxmail by using the default value if the sender name is 
empty.


Marco.
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