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One of the most common customizations that is performed on HylaFAX installations is that of
changing faxrcvd from the default. This is to be considered normal. Each business or fax user
seems to have a unique way of getting information to its recipients as well as the manner of
presentation. Faxes are no different.
A default faxrcvd configuration from the HylaFAX installation will e-mail a notification of
the received fax to FaxMaster. The notification will appear similar to this:
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 23:02:08 -0600
To: FaxMaster@faxserver.mydomain.com
From: The HylaFAX Receive Agent
Subject: facsimile received from
recvq/fax00008.tif (ftp://faxserver.mydomain.com:4559/recvq/fax00008.tif):
Sender: Remote Fax ID
Pages: 1
Quality: Fine
Page: ISO A4
Received: 2000:08:19 23:00:27
TimeToRecv: 0:20
SignalRate: 14400 bit/s
DataFormat: 1-D MR
ReceivedOn: ttySx
CommID: c00000010 (ftp://faxserver.mydomain.com:4559/log/c00000008)
If etc/hosts.hfaxd and RecvFileMode are configured for your access, then you should be able to view or
retrieve the fax image or the CommID file by following the listed ftp link.
By using this procedure, the default mail will be sent with the fax image
attached to that notification mail.
Create the file etc/FaxDispatch
(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 (HylaFAX 4.2.0 and later natively supports both
uuencode and mimencode) 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 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
here. Note that these WILL NOT WORK as-is on HylaFAX versions 4.1.1
and newer.
Note that in order to set a default program to "Open" a file by double-clicking it, appropriate file
type configuration must be entered into Explorer/View/Folder Options.../File Types for that file extension.
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