[Asterisk-Users] Email2fax big problemo

[Leif Neland]

---- Original Message ----
From: "Andrew Nowrot" <andrew.nowrot at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006
8:53 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Email2fax big problemo

> Hi,
>
> Few days ago I installed Email2fax application on my Asterisk box. I
> works but not in 100 %. Sometimes (to be certain quite often) I don't
> receive the whole fax. My fax machine cuts off transmission in 1/2 or
> 1/3 of the page. I read about it on a wiki and some user lists and
> people say that this behaviour could be cause be the Ghostscript and
> the conversion to the tiff format, but when I sent an email with tiff
> format as a attachment I got the same result (I receive only half of
> the page).

This makes it clear it is not an asterisk-problem, but a problem conveting 
the email to tiff.


> Other said the this is cause by the 2.4 kernel and I
> should change it to 2.6, but I'm not sure if they are right. (I must
> say that I can't change my kernel because of some other
> applications). I also read that this situation could be caused by the
> spandsp library.

Doesn't sound so, as the tiff appearently is broken long before asterisk and 
spandsp sees it.

Leif