[hylafax-users] Restrict fax send to a specific time window

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would like to specify that a fax job only be attemped during certain 
hours of the day on certain days, like 8 am to 5 pm weekdays.  I've read 
the sendfax man page and the online docs and I don't see anything like 
this.  I can specify when to schedule transmission using the -a option to 
sendfax, but I don't think this will be sufficient.  Let me explain why 
and maybe someone will have a good idea on how to handle things:

We generate around 700 faxes as a result of a billing program that runs 
once per month.  This program runs on the last day of the month.  Most of 
the recipients have fax machines that are on all the time, but some turn 
them off on weekends and after business hours.  If the last day of the 
month is on a weekend, we need to schedule some of the 700 faxes to be 
sent on the next business day instead of scheduling them immediately.  As 
well, these faxes need to be sent during business hours since the 
recipient turns off their fax machine.  With 700 faxes in the queue, my 
concern is that if we schedule the fax to send at 8 am the next morning 
hylafax will be so busy with all the other faxes that the scheduled ones 
won't be attempted until after business hours.  So I need a "don't attempt 
after 5 pm" type of rule.  Any way to do this?

James Rich

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