Re: [hylafax-users] Postfix faxmail mangling... Jereme

["j.hall" <j.hall@xxxxxxxx>]

Lee,

Thank you for updating the HOWTO.
It was a great help.

Dave, my consultant, showed me why my main Postfix mailserver was getting an "auth" error returned to it from my faxserver.
Relaying mail through my main mailserver on the way to my faxserver utilizes existing desktop mail client (Thunderbird) configurations (a great timesaver for me).
But, the main mail machine itself is not an authorized hylafax user, thus it fails to authenticate with the faxserver.

I learned that hylafax checks the first line of the body of the email for authentication:  "PASS <password>"
Since all of the desktop clients are in a secure network, I added a "nobody" login with no password and now mail passes through without requiring the PASS line.

I had to get the "auth" error fixed before I could see your mail2fax script in action.
It works, until it tries to generate a POS file, read on.
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Now I have a new problem.
I consistently get this error:
textfmt: No font metric informtaion found for "Courier-Bold"

On Ubuntu ver 7.10, Ghostscript is installed as part of the distribution.
But it seems to be installed minimally, without gs-esp and without a font.map in the /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts.
From /etc/hylafax/hyla.conf:
# These three fontMap paths are for etch:sarge:woody
FontMap: /usr/share/gs-esp/8.15/lib:/usr/share/gs-esp/7.07/lib:/usr/share/gs/6.53
FontPath:  /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts

I thought that maybe ghostscript is broken in this distribution, and wanted to see if a reinstall would fix it.
I tried to sudo apt-get install ghostscript.  But apt thinks that there are no changes needed.
I tried and had to abort removing ghostscript, because that would remove my hylafax-server.  No damage done.

How do I get or generate a font.map for my ghostscript fonts?
/usr/share/gs-esp does not exist in the default Ubuntu install of ghostscript.
What can I do about that?

Lee Howard wrote:

j.hall wrote:

Ideally, I'd like to send email to MAIL (my primary mail server, Postfix) with an address like 5035722224@xxxxxxxxxxxx
and forward it to FAX (my fax server, Postfix, Hylafax).
Then, I'd do the mangling and fax the message out.

Is this the right way to do it?
Can you offer Postfix mangling instructions?

I just updated the HOWTO here:

http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/faxing.php#ss5.4

There I give explicit instructions on how to do the faxnumber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx approach with Postfix.

Thanks,

Lee.


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