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. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
