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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hello.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I tried asking on IRC but it looks
like nobody was available at the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Need an advice or something regarding the
issue 10815 - SendFAX/ReceiveFAX applications. Much like as their ancestors
(txfax/rxfax), these applications return -1 in case of any problem with the
channel. As I understand negative result immediately aborts dialplan execution.
However, people are asking to add FAXSTATUS channel variable set by the
application which will indicate if transmission was successful or not. But
again, in case of any error, application returns -1 so there is no sense in
setting any variable because no one will be able to review it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>At the same time I understand people
who may want to know if fax was sent or not. The only way to satisfy them I see
is to ALWAYS return zero from the application to let dialplan execute (and
setting FAXSTATUS with something indicating error). The problem is that I
haven't seen any application in the Asterisk which returns zero always - even
in the case of channel hangup etc, reporting failures by means of channel
variables. So creation of such application can be considered a bad practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So the question is - what is the best (or
recommended) approach here?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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