Changes for Version 2.1-16 - January 2006

Change to mhtotiff utility

To correct errors when faxes are received but no image appears to be there. Required because of changes in Linux distribution utilities

Changes for Version 2.1-14 - January 2004

Change to signal handling on fax formatting

The child process signal handling during the formatting of a fax has been adjusted to prevent a warning message appearing in /var/log/messages on later versions of the linux kernel. In most cases this appeared to cause no problems to the operation of the software

Changes to bmpunpack

The hpg abd bmpunpack commands have been changed to read the photometric interpretation (which bit pattern represents black) from the color map table correctly. This had caused problems with images appearing in negative (i.e. black and white reversed)

Changes for Version 2.1-13 - July 2003

New feature

Rather than set up a printer on install, Fax2Send now supports a printer set-up under CUPS. A HP LaserJet III PCL printer should be set-up and renamed Fax2Send with the port changed to /dev/fax2send. Fax2Send listens on the pipe, when a document is printed to it from a Linux application, it pops up the "Compose" screen to enter the fax number, addressee and cover sheet text.

It is a pre-requisite that the Fax2Send X-Windows client (xfax2send) is running.

Enhancement

In-tray file limit increased from 200 to 512 characters

Following request we have increased the number of characters allowed for in-trays. In practice this increases the number of in-trays that may be specified.

Bug Fixes

In-line image control when using email sorting

There are two parameters that control the image options when forwarding faxes to email, both of which are in the [InboundFax2Mail] section of the config file

• Inline=yes - Controls whether a jpeg image is included in-line in the e-mail
• TIFF=yes - Controls whether there a copy of the original tif image is attached

The Inline parameter was ignored in previous versions

Changes for Version 2.1-12 - May 2003

This is the full release of all features included in the RH V2.1-11 release with some bug fixes. Available in rpm or tar.gz format with upgrade from previous versions also released

Our thanks to in-put GbR for the translation

fax2retry bug fix

Previously if fax2retry was run on a queue entry that didn't exist the server hung and had to be restarted

tifread bug fix

Fixes error with multiple striped G4 images

Mail2Fax gateway bug fixed

The transposition of the "From" and "To" fields in the sendmail.pl has been fixed

Changes for Version 2.1-11 - March 2003 with RH9.0, end April from FTP site

This version was released to Red Hat in early February for inclusion on the Application CD with the RH distribution. Originally this was going to be 8.1 but Red Hat appear to have decided to do away with point releases. Only available as an rpm at present

Viewing other users transmitted faxes

It is now possible to view the faxes of other users, options as follows:

1. Username and host match - can only view own faxes
2. Username matches - user can view faxes sent on any machine
3. No control - user can view any fax sent.

The above can be defined per user - requires updated PC Client V2.1-11

Multiple "Compose Fax" Dialog boxes

This has been fixed as explained on the FAQ page by release of a patched fax2send program included in this release. Previously this was a separately downloadable component.

Page navigation in X-Windows fax viewer

Navigation using GQView on a multi-page fax can be made by clicking on the individual pages now shown on the file list pane

Download Fax2Send Server V2.1-11

Changes for Version 2.1-10 - October 2002

Fax2Send has been amended to support the IP6 naming convention which means that host nmaes can be very long. Versions previous to V2.1-10 cannot be used if IP6 is adopted

On installation Fax2Send server now checks if Netscape is installed. If not it sets Mozilla as the default browser to use for the Fax2Send X-Windows Client Help. Previously this was not available if Netscape was not present.

The default modem port on install is now /dev/modem. Previouslt this was /dev/ttys0

fax2send.m4

The location of fax2send.m4 has been changed to /etc/fax2send previously this was /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/mailer - this was changed as the directory was not always present in some distributions

The Installation Wizard install and Fax2Send X-Windows Client use the TCL/TK libraries. If these were not available then the tar install ran from the command line and the X-Windows Client was not loaded. The tar and rpm installs now check to see if WISH is loaded. If it is not, it returns a prompt to the user to load them before continuing.

For convenience, Red Hat users can download these components from our FTP server for both RH7.3 and RH8.

WISH download

Download Fax2Send Server V2.1-10

Changes for Version 2.1-9 - June 2002

Received faxes can now be automatically sent for sorting using an email client using the Email Format feature (see below). This means that it is no longer necessary to have a PC Client for sorting. All faxes received can be sent to one or more email addresses which are then "forwarded" to the person they are for by email. All faxes are seen as in-line images. To use this feature the email client must support in-line images and an additional line needs to be added to the routing file. Go to this page for more information. Linux users may need to upgrade to KDE3 if you use kmail.

Images sent by email are now mime encoded and will be sent both as TIF attachments and in-line JPEG images.

The default front sheet after a text based or rpm installation is now set to template1.hdr. Previously no default Header sheet was set.

Received faxes can now be routed according to the device (fax modem) used to receive the fax. Previously it was only possible to route on the CSI (number stored in the originating fax equipment). This means that it is possible to route all sales faxes to the sales department, and all support faxes to the support department automatically, if discrete fax numbers are allocated for each department.

Download Fax2Send Server V2.1-9

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Changes for Version 2.1-8 - January 2002

faxcancel command

This is a maintenance release fixing a problem cancelling faxes using faxcancel. It was possible to crash Fax2Send server if a faxcancel was issued when a fax was in transmission and subsequent faxcancel commands were issued. The faxcancel command is also more efficient in its application.

Changes for Version 2.1-5A - May 2001

PCL files submitted from Windows Clients were faxing with corruption. This was due to a problem in the PCL emulator on the server which has been fixed.

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Changes for Version 2.1-5 - April 2001

The installation script has been modified to resolve installation problems on Mandrake V8.0.

A memory leak has been fixed in the queue manager.

It is now possible to specify a default set of InTrays for users by using the default parameter in the [InTrays] section of the config file. What's more, the software now comes preconfigured to use InTrays.

Messages are now moved, rather than copied between In trays. Messages older than 1 day are cleared from the trash In Tray.

It is now possible to use spaces in host names for the user list.

Hpfaxspool is a program that scans standard input for the string fax:number. e.g fax:1234567890. and then sends the contents of the document to the number.

The program issued with previous versions was difficult to use because it left null arguments on the command line. This has been fixed.

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Changes for Version 2.1-4 - February 2001

It is now possible to "print to fax" using CUPS. Set up a printer under CUPS that outputs to file:/dev/fax2send. The only limitation is that Fax2Send defaults the user to root@localhost.

The setting of this parameter had been moved from the post to the install section of the RPM file. The `uname -n` command was executed on the machine where the RPM file was built ("iapetus"). This has been moved back to the post install script.

The installation of the Fax2Send Printer Link caused the system to hang on the next reboot. This was due to the use of a named pipe as an output device for the Fax2Send printer. This has been fixed by using /dev/null as the output device and altering the filter to send the data direct to the named pipe.

If the Fax2Send license was installed with the rest of the software then it was possible to create a LICENSE file not readable by Fax2Send - if the root users umask did not allow read permission to others by default. This has been overcome by explicitly setting the umask in the install script.

The faxlink script has been modified to ensure the correct ownership of file in InTrays.

A bug has been fixed in the fax to email gateway which could result in the fax image not being attached to the message.

It is now possible to set the number of rings before the telephone will be answered via the Rings parameter in the modem section of the config file.

A reference in Fax2Send to the old location of the In Trays has been fixed. This means that In Trays will now work properly.

License installation will now work during product installation for the German version.

The pages of some images were not visible via the Linux desktop. A bug in tiffread has been fixed. The -f flag is no longer used for the kfax command - this makes the viewimage script compatible with the version of kfax shipped with Suse 7.0.

Errors produced by "rpm -V Fax2Send" have been fixed.

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Changes for Version 2.1-3 - November 2000

Received faxes are now compressed to Group 4 standard.

Peter Hirschfeld has kindly translated the user interface text into German.

If the Fax2Send icon on the desktop is dragged onto the panel then a monitor process is started and runs embedded within the panel. The icon changes according to the status of the system in the same way as the icon on the main toolbar (see below).

Dialog boxes now appear in positions relative to the parent window rather than the upper left of the screen.

The status icon on the main tool bar has been changed to the penguin in flight icon. When the Fax2Send server is running a green light is shown. When a new fax has been received the light turns red. When the modem is sending or receiving the light flashes off and on.

The config icon of a box now closes and opens when clicked.

Some received faxes contained blank extra pages. This has been fixed by adding a mimimum page length for the program mhtotiff.

Bug fixed in routine that registers a fax modem with the server. Seemed to make the faxdaemon crash on Slackware - although still awaiting confirmation of fix.

Revised fax2send.m4 script that will now work with generic-linux.mc file.

Pop up help on button bars.

Auto refresh on status monitor.

Pop up menu on list screen moved to right click.

Changes for Version 2.1-2 - September 2000

The configtool shell script has been removed and replaced by the command fax2config. This command runs under X and allows the configuration and control of Fax2Send by a super-user.

The default symbol set is now controlled from the config file. On installation it is set to ECMA-94.

The script that processed Postscript documents has been changed to ensure that output images are the correct size for faxing This sould fix the corruption noticed by users of Star Office.

It is no longer possible to obscure a dialog screen by clicking on the parent window.

The message part of the xfax2 application now word wraps and faxes in the same format (wysiwyf??!),

The rather confusing way in which attachments worked on the xfax2 application has been changed. The open file dialog now starts in the users home directory.

The xfax2send menu now appears as a tool bar with colour icons.

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1. cd /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf
2. Edit your sendmail config file (e.g redhat.mc) and add the line:
   MAILER(fax2send)
3. Compile using m4.
   e.g m4 redhat.mc > redhat.cf
4. Copy new .cf file to /etc/sendmail.cf.
   e.g cp redhat.cf /etc/sendmail.cf
5. Restart sendmail.
   e.g /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
       /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start

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Change Log for Fax2Send MS Windows Client

Latest version first

MS Windows Client Version 2.1-14 - August 2003

Fixes problems of image cache overflow

When sending large images to the fax printer (any image including PDF files), the cache could overflow causing the "Image file does not exist" error message to be displayed after watching the image being uploaded to the server. If an image file exceeds the size of the cache then the size of the cache will be temporarily increased to the size of that image file reverting to the setting (default=20000) in the config file after completion

Fixes problems of missing pages when printing to fax

When printing to fax using the previous version on some PC's not all the pages were sent to the server which resulted in incomplete fax transmissions. This was because the "WaitImage" function in the DLL was returning an error message before checking the output file for a stable size. The error was not picked up by the calling function which meant that the print file was copied almost as soon as the application detected a change in the status of the file resulting in only the print output at the time of capture being faxed

A new parameter has been introduced which enables the interval between checking the file size to be set in milli-seconds in the [printer] ufaxlib.ini file with the SizeCheckInterval parameter. The default value is 1000

DOWNLOAD V2.1-14

MS Windows Client Version 2.1-12 & 13

These versions were not made available for general release

MS Windows Client Version 2.1-11 - April 2003

Enables viewing of other users transmitted faxes

Requires Fax2send server V2.1-11 see description of options above

Fixes multiple "Prepare Fax" dialog boxes

Ships with patched fax2send.exe as described in FAQ

DOWNLOAD V2.1-11

MS Windows Client Version 2.1-9 - April 2002

New dll incorporated in Windows Client download

The Fax2Send Windows Clients has been re-compiled to incorporate the dll below. All language versions are now available for download

MS Windows Client Version 2.1-8 - January 2002

New dll available

This dll fixes the problem experienced when trying to drag and drop additional files as attachments to the pane below the Cover Sheet text. This failed on transmission to the server. The directory to copy this dll into depends on the version of MS Windows being used:

MS Windows 98 or ME: - Copy the dll into /Windows

MS Windows NT or 2000 - Copy the dll into /WINNT/System32

Once the updated dll is copied restart the Fax2Send PC Client

A new version of the Fax2Send PC Client will be compiled soon to include the new dll