Re: Faxing
I managed to get perl to send faxes using the 'fax' front-end program, but never satisfactorily. I had to use root user to send faxes and I never managed to send any faxes that has graphics in the. In the end I installed PageSender, which has examples of sending faxes via AppleScript, and I called the AppleScript from perl. I know that sounds a lot more round-about but it had a lot of advantages for me. I could send HTML files, correctly formated, and there is a record kept which you can view in the GUI of all faxes send, or not. If you do get something working, I'd be very interested to know how you got it done Robert Whittle On 18 Jan 2006, at 08:29, Dominic Dunlop wrote: On 2006–01–17, at 20:29, Bill Stephenson wrote: Is there a way to fax a document using the built-in Mac OSX (10.3) fax feature with perl? Well, the command-line program underlying the facility is efax. There's also a simplified front-end program, fax. You could try calling either of those with system() or whatever. Alternatively, CUPS makes the fax modem visible as a printer once it's configured -- run lpinfo -v and you should see it listed. This means that you should be able simply to pipe the stuff you want to fax to lpr. The trick would be to work out what option you need to put on the command line in order to get the number dialled, and acceptable formats for the data. (Text is probably OK. Beyond that, I've no idea.) Not that I've tried either possibility myself. I want to write a script that faxes selected members of congress my humble opinions ;) A laudable aim. -- Dominic Dunlop
Re: Faxing
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Robert Whittle wrote: : I managed to get perl to send faxes using the 'fax' front-end program, but : never satisfactorily. I had to use root user to send faxes and I never managed : to send any faxes that has graphics in the. In the end I installed PageSender, : which has examples of sending faxes via AppleScript, and I called the : AppleScript from perl. I know that sounds a lot more round-about but it had a : lot of advantages for me. Also, anything that supports AppleScript can be driven directly from Perl using Mac::Glue. -- ...while the Japanese are unable to duplicate the American film [market] they can destroy it by this video cassette recorder. - Jack Valenti, 1982
Re: Faxing
At 13:29 -0600 1/17/06, Bill Stephenson wrote: I want to write a script that faxes selected members of congress my humble opinions ;) You can send e-mail from perl and that leads to two options: 1) Send the email to efax (sp) where it can be converted to FAX and sent for a fee. 2) Don't vote for representatives who steadfastly refuse to publish an e-mail address. I know, they will need a clerk to read it but that's true for the FAX too. Joel Hefley; are you listening? -- -- Love your country. But don't trust its government. --
return status code from sendmail in macosx
Hi all: I have a typical mail cgi script written in perl and can't figure out why I don`t get an error when the message is not sent. My script does the typical: open (MAIL, |/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -F'$from_name' - f'$from_mail') or die can't open sendmail: $!; - etc - close MAIL or die can't close sendmail: $!; The problem is that it does not die even though the message is not sent. I've tried checking $? (child error) but nothing (it is '0'). I have read the sendmail and postfix man pages to no avail. I've also tried Mail::Mailer, Mail::Send, MIME::Lite and other modules, but the problem is still the same: I don't get an error even though mail is not sent. BTW: I know that mail is not sent because I'm checking the result in Console.app. What is it that I'm missing? Is there another way of checking for sendmail's success from your script? Thanks in advance, Riccardo Perotti -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.riccardoperotti.com
Re: Faxing
Hi Doug, I like the idea of efax. It seems good but costs $13/month. That is a little high for me considering I send or receive about 5 faxes a year. I wonder if there is another place that only charges when you do something? On Jan 18, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Doug McNutt wrote: At 13:29 -0600 1/17/06, Bill Stephenson wrote: I want to write a script that faxes selected members of congress my humble opinions ;) You can send e-mail from perl and that leads to two options: 1) Send the email to efax (sp) where it can be converted to FAX and sent for a fee. 2) Don't vote for representatives who steadfastly refuse to publish an e-mail address. I know, they will need a clerk to read it but that's true for the FAX too. Joel Hefley; are you listening. I was under the impression that all US representatives get an email address automatically assigned to them, whether they use it or not. -- Love your country. But don't trust its government. --
Re: return status code from sendmail in macosx
On 1/18/06 Riccardo Perotti wrote: Hi all: I have a typical mail cgi script written in perl and can't figure out why I don`t get an error when the message is not sent. ... The problem is that it does not die even though the message is not sent. I've tried checking $? (child error) but nothing (it is '0'). I have read the sendmail and postfix man pages to no avail. ... What is it that I'm missing? Is there another way of checking for sendmail's success from your script? I'm not sure what the problem is, but when my mail scripts don't work, I find the undeliverable messages in ~/mbox. Might be some hints there. HTH - Bruce __bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz__ca__
Re: return status code from sendmail in macosx
On Jan 18, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Brian McKee wrote: On 18/01/06, Riccardo Perotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I have a typical mail cgi script written in perl and can't figure out why I don`t get an error when the message is not sent. My script does the typical: open (MAIL, |/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -F'$from_name' - f'$from_mail') or die can't open sendmail: $!; - etc - close MAIL or die can't close sendmail: $!; The problem is that it does not die even though the message is not sent. I've tried checking $? (child error) but nothing (it is '0'). I have read the sendmail and postfix man pages to no avail. maybe helpful info in /var/log/mail.log ? Thank you brian: By checking /var/log/mail.log (from Console.app) I know that the mail failed to be sent, but my perl script doesn't catch this, which is my problem. Riccardo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.riccardoperotti.com
