Re: [hylafax-users] Continuation on failure...

[Lee Howard <lee.howard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Siri Vias Khalsa wrote:
> Lee – I would appreciate any insight on the jobcontrol option for this 
> issue, knowing that it is unsupported, as a temporary workaround until 
> the feature is added in a new version. What are the potential 
> downsides of resetting the “start page counter” ?

I'd have to script it up to give you an exact procedure, but the idea 
would be to see what you could accomplish by foolin' around with 
actually altering the 'npages' value in the sendq file.

I'm not entirely against developing a new feature to accomplish this, 
but right now I'm not motivated to do it. Fax protocol works on a 
page-by-page basis. Confirmations are received page-by-page. If you have 
a need that requires an all-or-nothing approach to a fax, then I would 
suggest that you submit faxes with the maximum number of "tries" or 
"attempts" (ntries, as opposed to "ndials") as 1... then let your 
middleware resubmit the fax job again the desired number of times.

That said, if you're sending me a 100-page fax and it fails on page 99 
... and then you send me those 99 pages again only to send me the last 
one after that... I'd be pretty irked for tying up my phone line for 
that extra hour or so.

Thanks,

Lee.

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*Lee Howard*
*Mainpine, Inc. Software Development Lead*
Tel: +1 866 363 6680 ext 805 | Fax: +1 360 462 8160
lee.howard@xxxxxxxxxxxx | www.mainpine.com


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