Re: [hylafax-users] How to control where's the trouble with email

[Bodo Meissner <bodo@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Bernardo Volpi schrieb:

> whether faxes arrive or not (I still have some problems, I'm trying to
> work them out) I should receive some email notification...
> instead, I don't get ANY email from hylafax server.
[...]
> What do you suggest?

HylaFAX sends mail from shell scripts faxrcvd, notify, pollrcvd and wedged. It calls the command "$SENDMAIL" which is defined in etc/setup.cache.

You should enable enough logging with ServerTracing and/or SessionTracing (see docs for details) to get the calls to these scripts in syslog.
Then you can add some tracing to the scripts and/or call them manually to see how sendmail is called. If this does not show enough error messages, call the sendmail command manually and try to debug your mail system.

> The goal I would love to reach is letting my hylafax system contact
> another server - which is my actual mail server, and over which I have
> full control - for sending mail.
> First question: do I have to configure a mail server on hylafax server?

I think you have two options:
1. Configure a local mail server on your HylaFAX server which uses your real mail server as smarthost or
2. Use a sendmail compatible program that directly sends to your real mail server. Note that with this solution you will probably lose e-mails when this program cannot reach your mail server.
(smtpsend is a PERL implementation of a sendmail command that directly contacts an SMTP server.)


Bodo
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