Problem with simple mail2fax routine

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Hi,

On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 05:57:34PM +0000, David Usherwood wrote:
> I have been trying to work up a simple mail to fax routine using .forward. It 
> is looking promising, but when I route the mail into faxspool, I get errors 
> like:
> 
> spooling to /var/spool/fax/outgoing/F000010...
> spooling /tmp/faxfile...
> /tmp/faxfile: cannot determine file format (extend source)

Save the mail into something named <name>.txt and it will automagically be
recognized as ASCII.

> I have looked at the mail and it does  have _ (Hex 5F) and backspace before 
> each letter in the headers (I've seen this before in some documentation eg 
> dosemu). 

Sounds pretty ugly, as if filtered through something that tries to
"prettyprint" the headers (<letter><bs><letter> is classic style for
"bold").   Just save the mail as-is, and this should not happen.

> Would this cause the problem? Also, I've tried to strip them out with 
> Perl, but without success. If  this is  needed and someone can advise the perl 
> needed I would appreciate it.

Look for a program called "col", it will do exactly that.

gert
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