Re: [hylafax-users] questioning the sense of RETURNFILETYPE

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jörn Friedrich Dreyer wrote:
> Nobody wants to explicitly set RETURNFILETYPE to a specific file format.
>   

It has to be in some kind of format, because there are no viewers which 
view raw MH, MR, MMR, or JBIG data.

> My users just dont trust hylafax and want to see the data that was sent
> to the recipient, which turns out to be a tif.

No, the TIFF file holds the initial MH/MR/MMR/JBIG data, but faxsend 
adds a tagline to it and then sends the raw data.  It's not sending 
TIFF.  Fax machines don't deal with TIFF.  Furthermore, the data that 
was sent never existed except in memory.  It was never on the filesystem.

> From what I understand
> the email2fax gateway already converts a file to tif before feeding it
> to hylafax.

Depending on how your mail-to-fax gateway works it could be submitting 
TIFF, PDF, Postscript, or PCL.

> THAT is the file the user wants to receive via email,
>   
That is what the user is getting back when RETURNFILETYPE=original.

> because he wants to know if the content was readable enough ...
> regenerating the file kind of defeats the purpose of sending the file
> back to the user.

I'm not sure that I concur with it defeating the purpose.  I don't see 
much purpose in returning the file in the first place, so it's a bit 
difficult to defeat a lack of purpose.

Thanks,

Lee.


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