Re: [hylafax-users] Problem with sender identity in faxmail

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recommend that you file this information at 
http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla

Thanks.

Lee.


On 2004.05.06 13:49 Marco Steinacher wrote:
> Lee Howard wrote:
> > On 2004.05.05 13:26 Marco Steinacher wrote:
> >
> > > If the incoming email has a from-line like
> > >
> > >  From: " " <user@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > faxmail is not able to queue the job (460 Failed to submit job 159:
> > > Unspecified reason).
> > > Obviously there is a problem when faxmail sets 'JPARM FROMUSER "" 
> > > ""'.
> >
> > Is the problem the quotes, or is it the whitespace?
>
> I think the problem is the whitespace, because in the logfile I found 
> the following entries corresponding to the failed job:
>
> FaxQueuer[1729]: SUBMIT JOB 159
> FaxQueuer[1729]: sendq/q159: line 52: Null or missing sender in job 
> request
> FaxQueuer[1729]: JOB 159: Invalid or corrupted job description file
> FaxQueuer[1729]: NOTIFY: bin/notify "doneq/q159" "rejected" ""
>
>
> I did some testing with the following results:
>
> 1. From-Header: 'From: " " <name@xxxxxxxxxx>':
> -> ERROR
> -> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to " ".
>
> 2. From-Header: 'From: "My Name" <name@xxxxxxxxxx>':
> -> NO error
> -> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to "My Name""".
>
> 3. From-Header: 'From: My Name <name@xxxxxxxxxx>':
> -> NO error
> -> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to "My Name".
>
> 4. From-Header: 'From: <name@xxxxxxxxxx>':
> -> NO error
> -> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to "<default-value>".
>
> 5. From-Header: 'From: name@xxxxxxxxxx':
> -> NO error
> -> server output: 213 FROMUSER set to "<default-value>".
>
>
> So there is only a problem if there are one or more whitespace in the 
> quotes but nothing else.
>
> An acceptable workaround for me is to set the sender identity with 
> X-FAX-From to a fixed string for all messages but maybe it would be 
> good to fix this in faxmail by using the default value if the sender 
> name is empty.
>
>
> Marco.
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