[hylafax-users] Solution found! (was script for sendfax only works from shell)

[Jürgen R. Plasser <plasser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have found the solution to the described problem!

The locale was not set and so the body was not converted properly because 
of non-ascii characters.

-Juergen

--On 18.12.2003 22:51 +0100 Juergen R. Plasser wrote:

> I have modified some script from the lists archive to send incoming
> emails as fax. When I invoke the script from shell (as user fax)
> everything works fine, but when it is started automatically (it is
> anchored in postfix) there are problems. The email that should be
> converted to fax consist of a plain text body and a tiff file attachment.
>
> The problem seems to be the from metamail (see script below) created body
> file of the email. The tiff file alone is sent without any problems, but
> the ascii text file leads to:
>
> rule: offset 0 ascii = -- failed (unprintable char 0xfc)
> rule: offset 0 ascii = -- failed (unprintable char 0xfc)
>
> whereas the script when involed from shell (fed with an email) logs to:
>
> rule: offset 0 ascii = -- success (result postscript, rule "%F/textfmt -B
> -f Courier-Bold      -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s %s >%o <%i") CONVERT
> "/usr/lib/fax/textfmt -B -f Courier-Bold        -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s
> default >/tmp//sndfaxiDH8wM </home/tiffax/11139/mm.ypkWRF" ...
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Here are parts of the script:
>
> # !/bin/sh
>
> SENDFAX=/usr/bin/sendfax
> TMP_MESSAGE_DIR=/home/tiffax
> TMP_MESSAGE_FILE=${TMP_MESSAGE_DIR}/$$_to_be_faxed.mail
> LOG_FILE=${TMP_MESSAGE_DIR}/fax.log
>
> # metamail env
> METAMAIL_TMPDIR=${TMP_MESSAGE_DIR}/$$
> export METAMAIL_TMPDIR
>
> # store the message
> cat > ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE}
>
> # invoke metamail
> mkdir ${METAMAIL_TMPDIR}
> metamail -x -w ${TMP_MESSAGE_FILE} 2>&1 > /dev/null
>
> FILES_TO_FAX=""
>
> for i in ${METAMAIL_TMPDIR}/mm*
> do
>         FILES_TO_FAX="${FILES_TO_FAX} $i"
> done
>
> for i in ${METAMAIL_TMPDIR}/*.tif
> do
>         FILES_TO_FAX="${FILES_TO_FAX} $i"
> done
>
> # invoke sendfax for mailbody and tifs
> ${SENDFAX} \
>         -v -v \
>         -n \
>         -m \
>         -D \
>         -c "${FAX_COMMENTS}" \
>         -f "${FAX_FROM}" \
>         -r "${FAX_REGARDING}" \
>         -x "${FAX_COMPANY}" \
>         -d "${FAX_NUMBER}" \
>         $FILES_TO_FAX
>
>
>
>
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