Re: [hylafax-users] priority-based destination controls?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2003.12.16 08:23 Michal Rok wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using destcontrols to force bulk faxes to go out at certain times
> of
> day, namely 1800-0800 to reduce the cost.
>
> I just started using the same machine for higher priority faxes, i.e.
> invoices. I would like to introduce a destcontrols rule that forces
> faxes to
> go out after 6pm, but only as long as they are "bulk" priority. Is
> there a
> way to achieve this? I was considering adding a special character in
> the
> canonical phone number, that would be stripped off at dialing and
> would
> indicate high priority (different destcontrols), but I'd rather avoid
> messing up the xferstats that would show this spoiled entry (i.e.
> +48221234123 for low priority, +48221234123X for high priority) as a
> legitimate number. Is there an easier way to do it?

HylaFAX already has a priority value placed on each job.  Bulk faxes 
lose priority as they are attempted and non-bulk faxes gain priority 
similarly, and since bulk faxes start at a lesser priority than normal 
jobs, bulk faxing shouldn't interfere with regular faxing.

Lee.

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