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10.3: Built-in fax services don't create audit trails
Authored by: paulrob on Feb 08, '04 02:47:45PM

1. According to the man pages for the fax service, the logs are deleted if the fax is successfully sent. So thats why CUPS shows the result and the logs don't. Bit odd but there you go!

2. As for keeping a copy of the outgoing fax the following SHOULD (heh heh!) be possible.

a) Open the print dialog, bring up the fax service and do want you gotta do with regards to creating a cover page. Then save the fax as postscript to a file.

b) Then open Terminal and type "fax make filename.ps" (where your file's name goes in place of filename obviously) This creates a series of files in the same folder in TIFF Group 3 format, with the following names "filename.ps.001", "filename.ps.002" where each file is one page of the fax. These are the files that actually get sent by the fax server and therefore a record should appear in CUPS as previous posters have indicated so an audit trail now exists. To actually send the fax use "fax send OUTGOINGNUMBER filename.ps.0*" This should send every page.

c) Hang on to either the first or last page. Its your cover sheet. You can print the whole fax by typing "fax print filename.ps.0*" and it should pop out of your default printer, or just "fax print filename.ps.001" to get page 1. Uses lots of ink from the look of it. I'm surprised at the relatively poor quality too, given that it hasn't actually gone where.

d) The above is a bit labour intensive, but it should be possible to arrange a folder action script in either Applescript or UNIX to do the above, although some cunning would be needed to get the phone number from the Postscript file without you having to type it in separately. Anybody not really busy?



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