Re: [hylafax-users] MaxDials

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

The problem with MaxDials is that sendfax always specifies JPARM MAXDIALS
during its communication with hfaxd.  Therefore, if you wish to use sendfax
and have a default MaxDials setting which is not 12, then you must use a
sendfax.conf, hyla.conf, ~/.hylarc, or hfaxd.conf file which specifies this.

The only time that etc/config will be read for MaxDials is when the fax
client has not already specified JPARM MAXDIALS.  So the same goes for any
other client as with sendfax.  If MaxDials is being specified by the client
on every communication (as with sendfax), then some default setting for
that client must be provided to alter the communication of JPARM MAXDIALS.

So, etc/config is for the *server*, but these settings are not used when
the client specifies the settings to use.  sendfax always specifies
MaxDials, so therefore the default configuration files for sendfax must be
used instead of (or in addition to) altering the server configuration files.

I hope that this makes sense.

Note that the configuration files listed above are not used by clients such
as Cypheus and WHFC.  So, if you use them, and if those clients always
specifiy MAXDIALS, then you must use that client's default configuration
editor (wherever that is) to adjust MaxDials to something other than 12.
Ideally, a client wouldn't specify a parameter unless the user specified it
(anyone up to patching sendfax?), but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Lee.



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