Re: [hylafax-users] mail2fax via postfix - pdf attachments

[A J Stiles <hylafax_resp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 12 November 2006 20:26, you wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> i have an hylafax(4.2.1) up and running now for 3 years.
> For our new company software i installed the mail2fax
> gateway and postfix.
>
> For a test i pointed my Thundermail SMTP account to the hylafax
> a send an email with pdf attachment... and it works fine!
> The PDF attachment is delivered to the fax destination.
>
> But if i try to send the fax trough our new company-software,
> only the header (TO:.. From... etc) and the message
> "DISCARDED application / octet-stream GOES HERE"

Chances are the company's Windows software is eating the PDF attachment, 
mistakenly believing it to be some sort of viral content.  If you had the 
source code, you could see for yourself exactly what was up with it -- 
something I hope you will point out to whoever chose a closed-source 
solution.

> Is there any change to look/adjust something and
> check what is wrong with that mail comming from the
> new company-software?

You might just need to have the mimetype "application/pdf" registered on the 
machine which is sending the e-mail, so it sends as application/pdf rather 
than application/octet-stream  (the default content type for binary data).
Make sure this is in /etc/mime-magic
0       string          %PDF-           PDF document
and this in /etc/mime.types
application/pdf                                 pdf

> from the company-software side i can not configure anything
> because everthing besides the SMTP-ip-address is hardcoded
> (Windows-software:-( )

Any properly-written software would include a way to tell it to permit PDF 
attachments.  Unfortunately, closed-source software most often isn't properly 
written .....

> any hint would be realy helpfull

Here's a hint:  ditch Windows and get some proper software!  

--
AJS

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