[hylafax-users] Email to fax decodong mimetype application/octet-stream

[Colin Anderson <ColinA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have email to fax to Sendmail to HylaFAX working beautifully from our
Exchange server. However, when sending attachments, I run into this problem:

-Anyone emailing a PDF attachment that reports Mime type as application/pdf
is processed correctly by the /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/pdf

-but-

-Anyone emailing a PDF attachment that reports MIME type as
application/octet-stream is ignored by faxmail, even though
/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/octet-stream exists, and is the same
as /var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/pdf

Unfortunately, Exchange (5.5) only wants to send attachments with MIME type
application/octet-stream

I believe that this issue is addressed by:

http://bugs.hylafax.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793

However, I have installed the RPM of Hylafax with Yum, so to apply the patch
I would have to download the HylaFAX source, apply the patch, compile, and
install. That's fine, but it would hose my config which is customized. So I
have two options:

1. Do the above, back up FaxDispatch and FacRcvd, all my config.tty files,
and cross my fingers that I haven't forgotten anything.

-or-

2. Appeal to you smart guys for an alternative to applying the patch. For
example, it is possible to return the MIME filetype that faxmail expects by
using 'file -bi foo.pdf', but how to intercept faxmail's call to
/var/spool/hylafax/mimetype/application/XXXXXX and return the output of
'file -bi' to faxmail? 

any suggestions and comments are welcome, tia


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