sendfax & timeout (stupid faxswitch!)

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Hi,

Thomas Ziegler wrote:
> I just had to send a fax to a station which, as I think, is using 
> a faxswitch. Unfortunately fax transmission fails.
> 
> After connecting to the receiver station I can hear a message "Bitte
> Warten" for about 45sec through the modem speaker (zyx1496). After
> that another message starts "Sie werden mit unserem fax verbunden...".
> Instead of starting the fax handshake, the modem hangs up. The
> corresponding lines from the log file are:
> 
> 01/21 09:00:02 yS0  ABORTING: line='BUSY'
> 01/21 09:00:02 ##### failed dialing, phone="7498657", +FHS:-2, time=57s
> 
> It seems there,s a timeout of 60s. Is there a way to increase that value?
> I've checked the FAQ and sendfax.config for that -- found nothing.

This is not caused by a timeout, but because the modem responds "BUSY".

There is no way around this, except switch off BUSY detection (ATX0) or
get the other end to fix their fax machine. This setup is clearly broken.

gert

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