[hylafax-users] sendfax does not send email notification

[David Cunningham]

Hi all,

I'm using sendfax to send a fax and for some reason not getting an email
notification. My sendmail log doesn't show any request to send an email, but
/var/log/messages does show the fax send activity.

The following is the command I'm using. Can anyone suggest a cause or where
to start looking? Thanks for any advice!

/usr/bin/sendfax -n -R -f 'us...@address.com' -d '12345678' /path/to/file.ps

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[d.da...@mastertraining.it]

In your place, I'd verify that the fax server can send email at all. I'd
try mailq command to see if there are enqueued mail waiting to be sent.

On 02/25/2011 02:09 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using sendfax to send a fax and for some reason not getting an
> email notification. My sendmail log doesn't show any request to send
> an email, but /var/log/messages does show the fax send activity.
>
> The following is the command I'm using. Can anyone suggest a cause or
> where to start looking? Thanks for any advice!
>

> /usr/bin/sendfax -n -R -f 'us...@address.com <mailto:us...@address.com>'
> -d '12345678' /path/to/file.ps <http://file.ps>

[David Cunningham]

Hello,

It definitely can - there are other entries in the maillog and I can send a
test mail successfully.

Any suggestions?

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM, d.da...@mastertraining.it <
d.da...@mastertraining.it> wrote:

> In your place, I'd verify that the fax server can send email at all. I'd
> try mailq command to see if there are enqueued mail waiting to be sent.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 02/25/2011 02:09 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using sendfax to send a fax and for some reason not getting an email
> notification. My sendmail log doesn't show any request to send an email, but
> /var/log/messages does show the fax send activity.
>
> The following is the command I'm using. Can anyone suggest a cause or where
> to start looking? Thanks for any advice!
>

> /usr/bin/sendfax -n -R -f 'us...@address.com' -d '12345678' /path/to/
> file.ps

[d.da...@mastertraining.it]

Hi,
I agree it's quite hard to debug if nothing is registered in logs. As
far as I understand Hylafax use the local smtp to send emails, on
127.0.0.1 port 25. When mine is not configured or has a problem on
relaying email, I can find the unsent messages with mailq. But seems
yours are not sent at all. I tried your very same sendfax syntax an
worked. Are you using the variables in faxrcvd?

On 02/25/2011 11:35 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It definitely can - there are other entries in the maillog and I can
> send a test mail successfully.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM, d.da...@mastertraining.it

> <mailto:d.da...@mastertraining.it> <d.da...@mastertraining.it

> <mailto:d.da...@mastertraining.it>> wrote:
>
> In your place, I'd verify that the fax server can send email at
> all. I'd try mailq command to see if there are enqueued mail
> waiting to be sent.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 02/25/2011 02:09 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using sendfax to send a fax and for some reason not getting
>> an email notification. My sendmail log doesn't show any request
>> to send an email, but /var/log/messages does show the fax send
>> activity.
>>
>> The following is the command I'm using. Can anyone suggest a
>> cause or where to start looking? Thanks for any advice!
>>
>> /usr/bin/sendfax -n -R -f 'us...@address.com

>> <mailto:us...@address.com>' -d '12345678' /path/to/file.ps
>> <http://file.ps>
>>
>>

[David Cunningham]

Hello,

What exactly do you mean by "using the variables in faxrcvd"?

Thanks for your assistance!

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:56 PM, d.da...@mastertraining.it <
d.da...@mastertraining.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> I agree it's quite hard to debug if nothing is registered in logs. As far
> as I understand Hylafax use the local smtp to send emails, on 127.0.0.1 port
> 25. When mine is not configured or has a problem on relaying email, I can
> find the unsent messages with mailq. But seems yours are not sent at all. I
> tried your very same sendfax syntax an worked. Are you using the variables
> in faxrcvd?
>
>
>
> On 02/25/2011 11:35 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> It definitely can - there are other entries in the maillog and I can send a
> test mail successfully.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM, d.da...@mastertraining.it <

> d.da...@mastertraining.it> wrote:
>
>> In your place, I'd verify that the fax server can send email at all. I'd
>> try mailq command to see if there are enqueued mail waiting to be sent.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/25/2011 02:09 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using sendfax to send a fax and for some reason not getting an email
>> notification. My sendmail log doesn't show any request to send an email, but
>> /var/log/messages does show the fax send activity.
>>
>> The following is the command I'm using. Can anyone suggest a cause or
>> where to start looking? Thanks for any advice!
>>

>> /usr/bin/sendfax -n -R -f 'us...@address.com' -d '12345678' /path/to/
>> file.ps

[d.da...@mastertraining.it]

I was using Hylafax 4.3.1 alone and to enable the notifications I hat to
set this variable in /var/spool/hylafax/bin/faxrcvd:
FROMADDR=f...@domain.it

Now I'm using "Avatfax" on top of Hylafax, a bit different.
Notifications are configured on user basis from the WebGui.

On 02/28/2011 12:34 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
> Hello,
>

> What exactly do you mean by "using the variables in faxrcvd"?
>
> Thanks for your assistance!
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:56 PM, d.da...@mastertraining.it

> <mailto:d.da...@mastertraining.it> <d.da...@mastertraining.it

> <mailto:d.da...@mastertraining.it>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I agree it's quite hard to debug if nothing is registered in logs.
> As far as I understand Hylafax use the local smtp to send emails,
> on 127.0.0.1 port 25. When mine is not configured or has a problem
> on relaying email, I can find the unsent messages with mailq. But
> seems yours are not sent at all. I tried your very same sendfax
> syntax an worked. Are you using the variables in faxrcvd?
>
>
>
> On 02/25/2011 11:35 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It definitely can - there are other entries in the maillog and I
>> can send a test mail successfully.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM, d.da...@mastertraining.it

>> <mailto:d.da...@mastertraining.it> <d.da...@mastertraining.it

>> <mailto:d.da...@mastertraining.it>> wrote:
>>
>> In your place, I'd verify that the fax server can send email
>> at all. I'd try mailq command to see if there are enqueued
>> mail waiting to be sent.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/25/2011 02:09 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm using sendfax to send a fax and for some reason not
>>> getting an email notification. My sendmail log doesn't show
>>> any request to send an email, but /var/log/messages does
>>> show the fax send activity.
>>>
>>> The following is the command I'm using. Can anyone suggest a
>>> cause or where to start looking? Thanks for any advice!
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/sendfax -n -R -f 'us...@address.com

>>> <mailto:us...@address.com>' -d '12345678' /path/to/file.ps
>>> <http://file.ps>
>>>
>>>

[David Cunningham]

Thank you very much for the assistance!

I traced it to a file permissions issue - all working now.

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:20 PM, d.da...@mastertraining.it <
d.da...@mastertraining.it> wrote:

> I was using Hylafax 4.3.1 alone and to enable the notifications I hat to
> set this variable in /var/spool/hylafax/bin/faxrcvd:
> FROMADDR=f...@domain.it
>
> Now I'm using "Avatfax" on top of Hylafax, a bit different. Notifications
> are configured on user basis from the WebGui.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 02/28/2011 12:34 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> What exactly do you mean by "using the variables in faxrcvd"?
>
> Thanks for your assistance!
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:56 PM, d.da...@mastertraining.it <

> d.da...@mastertraining.it> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I agree it's quite hard to debug if nothing is registered in logs. As far
>> as I understand Hylafax use the local smtp to send emails, on 127.0.0.1 port
>> 25. When mine is not configured or has a problem on relaying email, I can
>> find the unsent messages with mailq. But seems yours are not sent at all. I
>> tried your very same sendfax syntax an worked. Are you using the variables
>> in faxrcvd?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/25/2011 11:35 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> It definitely can - there are other entries in the maillog and I can send
>> a test mail successfully.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM, d.da...@mastertraining.it <

>> d.da...@mastertraining.it> wrote:
>>
>>> In your place, I'd verify that the fax server can send email at all. I'd
>>> try mailq command to see if there are enqueued mail waiting to be sent.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/25/2011 02:09 PM, David Cunningham wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm using sendfax to send a fax and for some reason not getting an email
>>> notification. My sendmail log doesn't show any request to send an email, but
>>> /var/log/messages does show the fax send activity.
>>>
>>> The following is the command I'm using. Can anyone suggest a cause or
>>> where to start looking? Thanks for any advice!
>>>

>>> /usr/bin/sendfax -n -R -f 'us...@address.com' -d '12345678' /path/to/
>>> file.ps