flexfax: sometimes getting EOP error with same fax machine

[Mike Wilhelm <mikey@burkhelm.com>]

I've been getting what seems to be the "unfortunately-too-common" EOP 
re-transmission problem when sending faxes.  I'm using HylaFAX on my SuSE 
6.2 Linux machine.  I've spent the time reviewing the archived messages for 
this mailing list concerning this problem, and from the multiple postings I 
came to the conclusion that there are "old fax machines" out in the world 
that don't "talk right" which causes this problem.  Other fax programs and 
fax machines can talk to the "old fax machines" because of incomplete error 
checking, etc, and HylaFAX requires the correct handshaking.  Not the 
answer I wanted to discover, but I could understand it.

What I've found in my testing, however, is that it's not just the fax 
machine...the EOP problem is dependent on the document being sent.  I've 
been testing using a single fax machine, and sending one page 
documents.  Some documents are successful, some are not and go through the 
"3 retries" sequence.

Does anyone know what attributes of a document could be causing this 
problem ???  Does it have to do with the amount of data on the page ???

Thanks,

Mike Wilhelm