Re: [hylafax-users] batching almost there

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

offman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The other question is about redials,  if we submit 4 faxes to the  
> same destination & the same TTS , and if the first one hits a busy  
> signal, do the other 3 also try to call the busy number , or is the  
> software smarter than that, and puts them all for a re-try?


It is smarter than that, yes.  It will reschedule them all for a later 
attempt.  However, the rescheduled time will not likely be the same for 
each, so (as the code now stands) they will not likely all be batched on 
the next attempt.

If you wanted them all batched again then you could 'faxalter -a time' 
them all from an admin account to make sure they all try to go together 
again.

> lee, I'm not looking for something that is 100%, just budget  
> reduction, and I'm not happy with what happened  at the start of this  
> thread.
> and just for the record, I am down 1 staff member as of last monday.


Well, it would seem, that I had misunderstood your batching needs 
previously, and yes, batching seems to be designed exactly for your 
purpose: to try to reduce the number of calls to the same destination 
whenever possible.

Before I made the fix for the race condition I had sincerely believed 
that jobs scheduled for the same time-to-send would get batched.  
Apparently I had never tested it, though, and when I did test it after 
the discussion with "Steve" began, I relized that indeed there was 
something silly going on.  I'm glad that it's working at least tolerably 
well for you now.  It's nice to know that at least some people are 
making good use of this feature.

Thanks,

Lee.


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