Re: Mgetty-fax: Receiving multiple pages.
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:54:03AM +1030, Paul Schulz wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I managed to set up the mgetty and mgetty-fax packages, at it is both
> sending and receiving faxes straight out of the install..
>
> 1. Install packages
>
> 2. To receive faxes, enable mgetty in '/etc/inittab' on the serial
> line that the faxmodem is attached to..
>
> Sending faxes is with 'faxspool' with 'runfaxq' to send faxes on the
> queue.
>
> Now.. I received a multiple pages fax, but can only see the first page..
Each fax page is received in /var/spool/fax/incoming as a raw g3 data
file beginning with either ffa or fna and ending with the page number.
The first thing I would do is check that your expected multiple page fax
is there as a number of g3 files.
> 1. mgetty-fax emails me the fax as a '.png' attachment
The /etc/mgetty/new_fax file installed from the mgetty-fax package is
set to convert g3 files to png format by default so that bit is fine.
However there should be one png for each g3.
A way of testing new_fax's conversion of g3 to png and whether it's
mailing them correctly is to execute as root
/etc/mgetty/new_fax 0 N n g3.01 g3.02 ...
where g3.01 etc are the full path names of the fax files. N is the
telephone number of the sender and n the number of pages. You can put
anything for these (say 12345 for N and 3 for n) but they must be there.
Details of fax reception are in info mgetty.
> 2. I extract it using 'metamail -w' (need to edit it first though,
> which is a problem.)
>
> This only gives me the first page.
My MUA is mutt and attachments are simply saved, so I am not familiar
with this use of metamail. Perhaps you are not extracting all the
pages.
> I would like to know what other people are using, and if they're happy
> with their system. I just know my boss will be asking for a web based
> front end to this.
Brian.
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email: brian@copernicus.demon.co.uk
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