[hylafax-users] Hylafax 5.1.7: Cannot send PDF and HTML attachment in Email

["Lee, John (Sydney)" <John.Lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have been using Hylafax+ for a while but I encountered this strange
problem when I built a new Hylafax+ box in production.

OS: Fedora Core 7
Hylafax: 5.1.7 (Install from source)
Email: Sendmail
Symptom: I was able to send email to fax using WORD, TIFF or TEXT
attachment.  However, PDF and HTML attachment just did ***not*** appear
in the fax at all and there is no error message on the fax.
The funny thing is that I was able to use the sendfax command on the
linux command line to send a pdf document to fax, but not from email.
Attached is the log when I sent a fax out using a PDF attachment (seems
like for some reasons the PDF or HTML attachment are dropped before the
fax was even sent).

Any thoughts?

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# ls /usr/bin/gs
/usr/bin/gs
# ls /usr/local/bin/html2ps
/usr/local/bin/html2ps

# cat /usr/local/lib/fax/faxmail/application/pdf
#! /bin/bash
[...]
GSRIP=gs

. /var/spool/hylafax/etc/setup.cache

$GSRIP -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE \
    -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=- "$1"

exit

# cat /usr/local/lib/fax/faxmail/text/html
#! /bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/html2ps -D $1
exit

# cat /usr/local/lib/fax/faxmail/application/msword
#! /bin/bash
antiword -p a4 -m 8859-1.txt "$1"
exit

# cat /usr/local/lib/fax/faxmail/application/octet-stream
#! /bin/bash
[...]
DISCARDMSG="DISCARDED application/octet-stream goes here"
FILECMD=file

. /var/spool/hylafax/etc/setup.cache

if [ ! -x $FILECMD ]; then
    echo "$DISCARDMSG" | $LIBEXEC/textfmt -B
    exit
fi

MIMETYPE="`$FILECMD -bi "$1"`"
case "$MIMETYPE" in
    "application/postscript") cat "$1";;
    "application/pdf")  $LIBEXEC/faxmail/application/pdf "$1";;
    "image/tiff")       $LIBEXEC/faxmail/image/tiff "$1";;
    "message/rfc822")   cat "$1" | $LIBEXEC/textfmt -B;;
    text/*) cat "$1" | $LIBEXEC/textfmt -B;;
    *) echo "$DISCARDMSG" | $LIBEXEC/textfmt -B;;
esac

exit
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