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Re: [hylafax-users] Faxmail and MIME Converters



Lee,

I was afraid of that...guess that means MIME Converters are broken for everyone.
I can do the coding, I'll have to crack apart faxmail.c and see if I can find the problem.


Thanks.

-Rob

--
Robert A. Pickering Jr. ProScan Imaging
Sr. Network & Security Engineer
On Jun 30, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Lee Howard wrote:


Robert,

Your message is very clear.  I'm not a faxmail expert, however, it
would seem to me, then that somewhere in the faxmail code this is
happening:

  - begin file
  - begin postscript for message text
  - produce postscript for message text
  - include postscript for MIME parts
  - end postscript for message text
  - end file

When it should be doing:

  - begin file
  - begin postscript for message text
  - produce postscript for message text
  - end postscript for message text
  - include postscript for MIME parts
  - end file

If you're capable of doing a bit of code debugging yourself, it
wouldn't seem that difficult to learn how faxmail works enough to fix
this.

In any case, I suggest that you hang your message onto the HylaFAX
Bugzilla.

Lee.



On 2004.06.29 11:24 Robert A.Pickering Jr. wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been reading the various HOW-TOs, FAQs, Installation and Setup
> Instructions, Man Pages, and the Hylafax-Users.
> I've solved a great number of "Newbie" questions using these
> resources and the Internet at large, but I've finally gotten to a
> point where I have one remaining issue in my Faxmail implementation
> that I can't seem to solve:
>
> Faxmail appears to be taking the Postscript that is generated by the
> MIME Converter that I've got installed (my version of an rtf2ps) and
> embedding it in the text portion that Faxmail converted to
> Postscript.  This is in conflict with the Faxmail man page that
> states:
>
> "If  a  script  exists  then  it  is  run  and  the  result  is 
> appended to the output PostScript document."
>
> Well, it appears that it does append it, but it hasn't closed it's
> Postscript document first.  The end of my resulting Postscript file
> looks like:
>
> showpage grestore % Page 2 # 2 Sheet 2
> %%PageTrailer
> %%Trailer
> %%Pages: 2
> %%EOF
>
> showpage
> end restore
> %%Trailer
> %%Pages: 1
> %%EOF
>
> Unfortunately, when it then gets sent through sendfax, sendfax pukes
> on the PREPARE and it dies with a Ghostscript error.  However, if I
> move the second set of footers up to right before the RTF converted
> Postscript header, I can then send it through sendfax and everything
> works like it should.
>
> I've looked around to see if there is anyway to tell faxmail that it
> should *close* the initial Postscript document before appending the
> second, but haven't found anything that would seem to work.
>
> I know this isn't a widely used feature of Hylafax (based on readings
> and findings), however, I'm so close to having everything work, I'd
> hate to have to write a Faxmail replacement just for this problem. 
> The MIME Converters are getting called, I'm able to format the
> headers on the resulting fax, and I'm even able to pass directives
> through the email headers.  I love it, but alas it's not quite
> working.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> -Rob
>
>--
> Robert A. Pickering
> Jr.                                                         ProScan
> Imaging
> Sr. Network & Security Engineer
>
>
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