Re: [hylafax-users] Faxmail and MIME Converters

["Robert A.Pickering Jr." <rpickering@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee,

I was afraid of that...guess that means MIME Converters are broken for 
everyone.
I can do the coding, I'll have to crack apart faxmail.c and see if I 
can find the problem.

Thanks.

-Rob

--
Robert A. Pickering Jr.                                                 
        ProScan Imaging
Sr. Network & Security Engineer
On Jun 30, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Lee Howard wrote:

> Robert,
>
> Your message is very clear.  I'm not a faxmail expert, however, it
> would seem to me, then that somewhere in the faxmail code this is
> happening:
>
>   - begin file
>   - begin postscript for message text
>   - produce postscript for message text
>   - include postscript for MIME parts
>   - end postscript for message text
>   - end file
>
> When it should be doing:
>
>   - begin file
>   - begin postscript for message text
>   - produce postscript for message text
>   - end postscript for message text
>   - include postscript for MIME parts
>   - end file
>
> If you're capable of doing a bit of code debugging yourself, it
> wouldn't seem that difficult to learn how faxmail works enough to fix
> this.
>
> In any case, I suggest that you hang your message onto the HylaFAX
> Bugzilla.
>
> Lee.
>
>
>
> On 2004.06.29 11:24 Robert A.Pickering Jr. wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I've been reading the various HOW-TOs, FAQs, Installation and Setup
> > Instructions, Man Pages, and the Hylafax-Users.
> > I've solved a great number of "Newbie" questions using these
> > resources and the Internet at large, but I've finally gotten to a
> > point where I have one remaining issue in my Faxmail implementation
>  > that I can't seem to solve:
> >
> > Faxmail appears to be taking the Postscript that is generated by the
> > MIME Converter that I've got installed (my version of an rtf2ps) and
> > embedding it in the text portion that Faxmail converted to
> > Postscript.  This is in conflict with the Faxmail man page that
>  > states:
> >
> > "If  a  script  exists  then  it  is  run  and  the  result  is 
> > appended to the output PostScript document."
> >
> > Well, it appears that it does append it, but it hasn't closed it's
> > Postscript document first.  The end of my resulting Postscript file
> > looks like:
> >
> > showpage grestore % Page 2 # 2 Sheet 2
> > %%PageTrailer
> > %%Trailer
> > %%Pages: 2
> > %%EOF
> >
> > showpage
> > end restore
> > %%Trailer
> > %%Pages: 1
> > %%EOF
> >
> > Unfortunately, when it then gets sent through sendfax, sendfax pukes
>  > on the PREPARE and it dies with a Ghostscript error.  However, if I
> > move the second set of footers up to right before the RTF converted
> > Postscript header, I can then send it through sendfax and everything
> > works like it should.
> >
> > I've looked around to see if there is anyway to tell faxmail that it
> > should *close* the initial Postscript document before appending the
>  > second, but haven't found anything that would seem to work.
> >
> > I know this isn't a widely used feature of Hylafax (based on readings
> > and findings), however, I'm so close to having everything work, I'd
> > hate to have to write a Faxmail replacement just for this problem. 
> > The MIME Converters are getting called, I'm able to format the
> > headers on the resulting fax, and I'm even able to pass directives
>  > through the email headers.  I love it, but alas it's not quite
> > working.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> >--
> > Robert A. Pickering
> > Jr.                                                         ProScan
> > Imaging
> > Sr. Network & Security Engineer
> >
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