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By using this procedure, the default email (sent after receiving a fax) will be sent with the fax image attached to it.

Create the file <tt>etc/FaxDispatch</tt> (usually /var/spool/hylafax/etc/FaxDispatch) so that it contains the following lines:

 FILETYPE=tif;
 SENDTO=FaxMaster;

Substitute pdf or ps for tif as you desire.

Note that because TIFF and PDF are binary file types, metamail, uuencode, or some other encoding program must be installed. In HylaFAX versions prior to 4.2.0 if you do not use metamail's mimencode, also include a line like:

 MIMENCODE=bin/uuencode_it;

in your FaxDispatch file where bin/uuencode_it is an executable shell script of the form

 #!/bin/sh
 uuencode -m $1 $1 | grep -E -v "^begin|^====$" 2>/dev/null

HylaFAX 4.2.0 and later natively supports both uuencode and mimencode, which is to say if either the 'uuencode' or 'mimencode' binaries exist, they will be detected and used by HylaFAX to encode the attachment.

HylaFAX versions prior to 4.1.1 do not support the FILETYPE option in FaxDispatch, and so the attachments will always be Postscript. Users of HylaFAX versions prior to 4.1.1 (shame on you) may be interested in using the old faxrcvd-mail scripts by Noel Burton-Krahn. They can be found [http://www.hylafax.org/site1/howto/faxrcvd/index.html here]. Note that these WILL NOT WORK as-is on HylaFAX versions 4.1.1 and newer.


== Distribution Specifics ==

=== Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn (HylaFAX 4.3.1) ===

Because <code>/var/spool/hylafax/etc/setup.cache</code> will define the following:

 BASE64ENCODE='/usr/bin/uuencode'
 MIMENCODE='/usr/bin/uuencode
 UUENCODE='/usr/bin/uuencode'

and uuencode - GNU sharutils 4.2.1 ''must'' include the output file as an argument, <code>/var/spool/hylafax/etc/FaxDispatch</code> should include the following:

 FILETYPE=tif
 SENDTO=FaxMaster
 BASE64ENCODE='bin/uuencode_it'

(replace <code>tif</code> with <code>pdf</code> if desired) and <code>/var/spool/hylafax/bin/uuencode_it</code> should include the following instead:

 #!/bin/sh
 uuencode -m $1 /dev/stdout | grep -E -v "^begin|^====$" 2>/dev/null

Note the replacement of the second <code>$1</code> with <code>/dev/stdout</code> from the original.

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