Re: [hylafax-users] blocked faxes - hylafax 4.4.3

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>]

* Markus Kahle <markus.kahle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [071211 03:33]:
> Hi Aidan,
> 
> Those fax-ids are faxes which all originally scheduled for friday,21th 
> of December. That's because for our intended use we had to deal with 
> some hylafax shortcomings in case of setting a fax "on hold". Till now 
> it's not possible to commit a fax to hylafax "on hold" , so you have to 
> explictly activate this fax again by using faxalter or via avantfax webpage.
> So we did a work-around for this problem by setting a 2 weeks delay on 
> these faxes, this explains those high tts and killtimes of 5532, 5530, 
> 5477, 5476 and 5478.

Ah - I've reproduce it by submitting jobs way in the future.  Give me
some time, and I'll see if I can get it fixed.

> Does hylafax has problems with those high tts and killtimes ?

It's not *supposed* too...

> As mentioned we used this "two weeks" delaytime in tts and killtime to 
> simulate "on hold" status.
> 
> Is the hylafax scheduler getting confused by those high tts & killtimes 
> so even faxes with earlier tts times got blocked ? This would explain 
> our problems, but hylafax should get into troubles even with 2 weeks tts 
> & killtimes, shouldn't it ?
> 
> Are there any other options to get a "on hold" function to work in 
> hylafax and what's the highest tts & killtime hylafax scheduler is 
> supporting right now ?

I've used the following scheme to "hold" jobs for times..  It's not
quite the same as what your doing, but similar:
	http://people.ifax.com/~aidan/hylafax/jobcontrol/jobcontrol-queue.sh.txt

a.

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Aidan Van Dyk                                             aidan@xxxxxxxx
Senior Software Developer                          +1 215 825-8700 x8103
iFAX Solutions, Inc.                                http://www.ifax.com/


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