Re: [hylafax-users] Unknown document type when sending pdf via email

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Santos wrote:

> Why is it so hard to send pdf (and other formats) to faxmail when 
> sendfax supports it ok?


First off, sendfax and faxmail are independent HylaFAX client programs.  
Faxmail does not use sendfax.

I suspect that faxmail originated with most of the rest of the HylaFAX 
software at SGI sometime in the early to mid 90s.  I don't think many 
things were doing PDF back then.  Since that time faxmail has been 
somewhat ignored because, as you're finding, it really doesn't fit the 
bill for most peoples' needs.  By comparision, sendfax has gotten a lot 
of attention throughout the life of HylaFAX, and that's one reason why 
PDF works so easily with it.  Certainly there are some faxmail advocates 
out there, and I do not wish to upset them by saying this, but in the 
time you spend massaging faxmail into doing what you want you could 
easily, and more suitably, write your own mail-to-fax MDA using sendfax.

(Now, of course the response I usually get to that comment is, "Well, 
sure writing your own MDA is simple for you, 'cause you're a 
programmer."  And, well, I guess maybe that's true... but it's certainly 
not harder than writing an Asterisk dialplan... and it seems that 
newbies jump head-first into that all the time.)

Lee.


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