NAME

       faxqueue - sendfax fax spool queue control files

SYNOPSIS

       /var/spool/fax/outgoing/F*/JOB

DESCRIPTION

       The   JOB   files   in   the   subdirectories   of   the  outgoing  fax  spool  directory,
       /var/spool/fax/outgoing build up a queue of faxes to  be  sent  by  faxrunq(1).  They  are
       created by faxspool(1), can be viewed with faxq(1), and be deleted by faxrm(1).

FORMAT

       The format of the JOB file is as follows:

       Each  line  consists of a leading keyword and associated data (rest of the line). Some are
       required, some others are optional. The currently implemented keywords are:

       phone <number>
              The telephone number to send the fax to. Required.

       user <user>
              The originating user name (on the local machine). If no "mail"  field  is  present,
              this user will get the status mail about the fax. Required.

       mail <email>
              If this field is present, faxrunq(1) will send its status mail to the address given
              here. If not, faxrunq(1) will use the "user" field.  Optional.

       input <file(s)>
              The file names passed to faxspool(1). Optional, used only by faxq(1).

       pages <file(s)>
              The file names, relative to the directory where the JOB file is found, that are  to
              be  sent with sendfax(8). The files have to exist, and be readable by the user that
              runs faxrunq(1). Required, except if "poll" is used, then it's optional.

       priority <0-9>
              This can be used to set the priority for this job in the fax queue (higher priority
              jobs  get  sent  before all lower-pri jobs). So far, only faxrunqd uses this field,
              faxrunq does NOT. 9 is the highest, 0 the lowest priority. 5 is the default.

       Status <message>
              Automatically appended by  faxrunq(1)  after  each  run,  tells  the  reader  about
              successful  and  unsuccessful  tries  to  send  this job. If more than five "FATAL"
              errors are listed, the fax job is removed from the queue.

       verbose_to <blurb>
              A plain-text description of the receiver of the fax. Is returned,  if  present,  in
              the mail messages "your fax to <blurb>". Optional.

       time <hhmm>
              If  present,  faxrunq won't send this job before the given time. The format must be
              exactly "hhmm", in 24-hr-format, otherwise faxrunq won't understand it. Optional.

       poll   Flag token.  If present, faxrunq will try  to  poll  the  given  phone  number  for
              documents (see "sendfax -p").

       normal_res
              Flag  token.   If  present, faxrunq will transmit all pages using normal resolution
              (see "sendfax -n").

       acct_handle <arbitrary string>
              This is a pure comment field, but sendfax(8) will log it into its  transaction  log
              file.  So this can be used as a customer handle, a job number, whatever you need to
              get the phone bills charged to the customer (the programs won't look  at  it,  just
              pass it through). Optional.

       subject <arbitrary string>
              This  is  also a pure comment field, used only for informational purposes.  faxrunq
              will return it in the sucess/failure mail. If you use faxspool -s <subj>,  it  will
              put this string on the cover page and in the JOB file.

PERMISSIONS

       Starting  with mgetty 1.1.29, the fax spool directory /var/spool/fax/outgoing is no longer
       world-writeable.  It should be owned by the user 'uucp' and be mode 755.   The  faxrunq(1)
       and faxrunqd(1) programs should also be run under that user ID if possible.

       If  the  fax spool directory is world- or group-writeable, there are a number of denial of
       service or file overwrite / file access attacks possible that  it's  very  hard  to  guard
       against. So don't do this!

       If  the  fax  spool  directory  has  the  proper permissions, there are currently no known
       attacks against faxrunq/faxrunqd, even if they run as "root", but it's always more safe to
       run as untrusted user.

PROCESSING

       While a given JOB file is processed by faxrunq(1), it's locked against sending it multiple
       times by temporarily renaming it to JOB.locked, thus it may happen that a faxq(1)  command
       doesn't  show  this job. ( faxrunqd(8) is a bit smarter and does the locking by creating a
       hard link).

       When a job is successfully sent, it's not deleted but the JOB file is renamed to JOB.done.
       Because  of this, you can still see old jobs with "faxq -o". You should regularly clean up
       the outgoing fax directory, removing old faxes. If you don't want this behaviour, edit the
       faxrunq(1) config file and enable the option delete-sent-jobs yes

       When  a  job  cannot  be  sent after several tries (excluding normal difficulties like the
       called number being busy or  the  modem  being  in  use),  the  JOB  file  is  renamed  to
       JOB.suspended.  To re-queue this job, call faxq -r -- this renames the JOB file back.

SEE ALSO

       faxrunq(1), faxspool(1), faxrm(1), faxq(1), faxrunqd(8)