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[hylafax-users] Can't send e-mail attachment as fax

Hello,

The problem I ran into is that, no mater the mail body is empty or not, only
the content of the body can send as fax and that the attachment is replaced
by the code <!DOCTYPE HTML .......>

Can anyone help me out !!!

Best Regard,
wkpoon
> -----原始郵件-----
> 寄件者:	Maurice Galland [SMTP:maurice.galland@kariboo.com]
> 傳送時間:	2003年5月5日 PM 03:37
> 收件者:	WK Poon
> 主旨:	Re: [hylafax-users] Can't send e-mail attachment as fax
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I ran into the same problem. As I noticed from a look at the faxmail 
> code, the behaviour is as follows:
> - if the mail body is not empty, the body is sent whether there is an 
> attachment or not;
> - if there is no body but only an attachment, the attachment is sent.
> 
> I don't know what the rationale behind this is, but tweaking the code to 
> send the attachment when the body is not empty should not be too
> difficult.
> 
> Maurice
> 
> 
> WK Poon wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I had the hylafax 4.15 binary (rpm) install on redhat 8.0 with
> sendmail-8.
> > 12.8-1.80,  libtiff-3.5.7-7, ghostscript-7.05-20,metamail-2.7-28 and use
> > USR Sportster 28.8 external fax modem. 
> >  
> > The sendmail.cf was config:
> > define(`FAX_MAILER_PATH'.`/usr/binfaxmail')dnl
> > define(`FAX_MAILER_ARGS',`faxmail -d -n -p 12pt $u$h $f')dnl
> > MAILER(`fax')dnl
> >  
> > The FaxDispatch file:
> > FILETYPE=tif;
> > SENDTO=FaxMaster;
> > 
> > Fax receive and delivery through e-mail was fine but when I send fax by
> > e-mail, only the content of the e-mail was send and any attachment (in
> the
> > form of ps, tif, txt, jpg ...) get lost. Only the header show on the fax
> as
> > show below:
> > 
> > To:	wkpoon@xxxxxxxx.fax
> > From:	wkpoon@localhost.localdomain
> > Subject:
> > Date	Mon,5 May 2003 11:18:17 +0800
> > 
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> > <HTML><HEAD>
> > <META ........>
> > ..
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> Maurice Galland                            maurice.galland@kariboo.com
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