It took me about a week of dinking around with courierfax/mgetty+sendfax/modem before I got it to work right. Here is what I found out.
1) Have to have a fax/modem that does class 2.0 or 2. If you only have Class 1 your SOL. Also if you don't already have a modem make your life easy. Get a external, serial, class 2, or class 2.0 modem. My paticular one is a US Robotics V.92 (Model 5686E) which worked perfect out of the box. 2) You need to make sure to copy over courier's "new_fax" file over mgetty's default "new_fax" file. If your doing RPM's it does that for ya. 3) Change $mgetty+sendfax/sendfax.config so "max-tries-continue" says "n" insteady of "y" 3) You need to edit $courier/etc/faxrc file and comment out this line: rw^ . 1 4) Edit /etc/inittab and make sure you have some line that's like the following: mo:235:respawn:/usr/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 /dev/ttyS0 My fax/modem is a external serial modem so It's ttyS0. Also I couldn't get the inittab configuration to actually take until the machine was rebooted. I know there's a proper way to have the system reload the inittab but I couldn't figure it out. 5) Use webadmin to configure inbound/outbound faxing. There was no way I was going to spend another week and figure out that file, the webadmin did a great job of doing exactly what I wanted.
From there everything worked for me. When I was first troubleshooting I tried to diagnois things at their lowest level by sending faxes from the command line, and also running the mgetty command to listen for faxes. Which helped me figure out the problems I was having.
Good luck and happy faxing!!
Keith
Lars Holmström wrote:
I've tried to install the mgetty+sendfax with less success. Even if I set "modem-type fax" I still got the loginbanner when I connect.
Do you have any hints ?
/Lars
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Pettit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:50 PM Subject: [courier-users] courierfax image format/size
courierfax is working great. But I'd like to see if there is anyway to choose the size of the png that's sent?
The PNG is freaking huge and if you need to print it, it can be very painfull depending on the email client your using.
Also for multi-page faxes it creates a seperate PNG for each page. Is there anyway to have one PDF instead or something similar? That makes more sense to me if faxes are more than one page.
Thanks,
-- Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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