mass mailing with sendfax?

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:56:29 +0100


Hi,

On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 06:00:55PM +0100, Dieter Blocher wrote:
> More questions about sendfax...
> 
> I´ve got also problems with my ELSA 33.600 TQV Modem, when I send this 1000
> faxes.
> Sometimes, when the next job is run, the modem cannot init. and I can´t hear
> any dialtone.
> After a while faxsend exit with error 10 (No Carrier)

So what does the sendfax log file say in this case?

> Is the a special init-string for my ELSA-Modem, od what can I do?

Sometimes mgetty's init is too fast for the ELSA, you could try setting
"open-delay 1000" in sendfax.config.

> My next problem is, how to set the max tries?
> I only wan´t to try 2 or 3 times.
> But i´ve read, that this function is not impleted yet!
> Can I set the max tries otherwise?

??!? surely it's implemented.  Just set the variables in faxrunq.config
according to "man faxrunq".

> >That should work fine (except that you shouldn't use .TIF files, because
> >scaling will most likely result in bad quality).
> What file type you think i should use?

G3.

gert
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