[hylafax-users] How to send faxmail html messages ?

[Xavier Blanco]

I have a reliable Hylafax server 4.4.3 under MacOSX.
Mail to fax gateway is working ok. I can send plain text mails and
attach pdf documents from mail client software, but i want to send
html mail messages. I have been looking in www.hylafax.org for
instructions but I can' find clear literature about how to get this.
Anybody can point me where to look ?

Thank you in advance

xavier

[Lee Howard]

Xavier Blanco wrote:

> I have a reliable Hylafax server 4.4.3 under MacOSX.
> Mail to fax gateway is working ok. I can send plain text mails and
> attach pdf documents from mail client software, but i want to send
> html mail messages. I have been looking in www.hylafax.org

> <http://www.hylafax.org> for instructions but I can' find clear

> literature about how to get this. Anybody can point me where to look ?

This has been discussed in detail numerous times in the last few months
on this list and are undoubtedly available in the archives now.

Basically the 4.4.x releases eliminated MIMEConverters in favor of using
typerules. This made HTML conversion much, much more difficult for
faxmail (if not impossible).

HylaFAX+ releases still support MIMEConverters and thus HTML conversion
is easily done.

With HylaFAX+ pay attention to the default-installed MIMEConverters on
the system. Basically, you probably want to create a new MIMEConverter
for html. If you installed from source code you'd create a file,
/usr/local/lib/fax/faxmail/text/html, and in that file you would put:

#! /bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/html2ps $1
exit

And, of course you'd need to have html2ps installed in /usr/local/bin.

The paths will be different if you installed from RPM or something.

Thanks,

Lee.

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[Xavier Blanco]

Hi Lee,

So the way to go is move to HylaFAX+ ?

Where i can find differences between both ?

regards

xavier

[Lee Howard]

Xavier Blanco wrote:

> So the way to go is move to HylaFAX+ ?

That is my suggestion, yes.

> Where i can find differences between both ?

I haven't kept a list of the differences with HylaFAX+ and 4.4.x, but I
did for those releases contemporary with 4.3.x, and that's found here:

http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/hylafax-differences.php

[Xavier Blanco]

Hi Lee

I have Hylafax 4.4.3 recently installed. If I installs Hylafax+
5.1.11 over my current hylafax 4.4.3 installation could be issues ?

regards

xavier

[Lee Howard]

Xavier Blanco wrote:

> I have Hylafax 4.4.3 recently installed. If I installs Hylafax+ 5.1.11
> over my current hylafax 4.4.3 installation could be issues ?

If you installed 4.4.3 from RPM then install 5.1.11 from RPM. If you
installed 4.4.3 from source then install 5.1.11 from source. Make sure
that you re-run 'faxsetup' and you should be fine.

If there are issues let me know, and we can work through them, I'm sure.