Re: [hylafax-users] Log file location

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Consulsoft Limited wrote:

> How do I check whether or not HylaFAX is having problems converting email
> attachments prior to sending them as part of a fax? Is there a log that I
> can check which follows through receiving the email, processing attachments,
> then sending it to HylaFAX to send? If there is, where would I find it?
>
> I'm trying to build an email to fax gateway, so I can send a PDF file to a
> fax recipient simply by emailing it to the fax server. So far I can send an
> email to the fax server and the body text of that email is faxed to the
> number I specified.
>
> However I can't make it fax a PDF file, or a TIFF file, and I don't know
> where to check what's going wrong. The received fax just contains the
> MIME-encoded version of the file. I have scripts in the mimetype directory
> which I *think* are correctly named and operational, but I've no idea whether
> Hylafax is even calling them or not.
>  

You'll probably want to use 'faxmail -v' option and then watch the 
output.  So you may need to just run it by hand once (by cat'ing an 
e-mail to it).

> I find the 'how-to' quite brief for non-Linux people like me, and of course
> now it's nearly working it's all the more frustrating..

In days to come faxmail won't be so frustrating out-of-the-box.

Lee.

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