[asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI

Bob Crandell bob at assuredcomp.com
Tue Apr 14 10:40:01 CDT 2009


Ryan,

I'm not interested in Asterisk handling the faxes just having it route
an incoming fax to our fax server.  Will it do that without FFA?

Sounds like FFA is going to turn Asterisk into a pretty sweet product
and with your GUI on top of it ... wow.

Thanks
Bob

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:06 -0500, Ryan Brindley wrote:
> Bob,
> Digium just released Fax For Asterisk (FFA,
> http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/faxforasterisk.php). Rajesh
> was wondering when a GUI page would be committed, so that users could
> use the new FFA on the GUI.
> 
> --                 
> Ryan Brindley                 
> Digium, Inc. | Software Developer                 
> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA                 
> main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464                 
> Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Crandell" <bob at assuredcomp.com>
> To: "Asterisk GUI project discussion" <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 8:37:59 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI
> 
> Speaking of faxes.  We have a fax server.  Will Asterisk recognize an
> incoming fax and route it there or is this what you guys have been
> talking about?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 08:06 -0500, Ryan Brindley wrote: 
> 
>         Rajesh,
>         Unfortunately, its still in the discussion stage. I'll give an
>         update when I hear anything.
>         
>         Following Neil Stone's comment, if you are interested in
>         hearing about a fax update, please start a new thread and
>         don't reply to an unrelated thread. Its quite annoying to
>         readers when that happens, and eventually many loose their
>         willingness to help. So, if you were unaware, consider this a
>         quick 101 of mailing lists. If you were aware, consider this a
>         warning that if you want to be taken seriously, you'll have to
>         be respectful.
>         
>         --                 
>         Ryan Brindley                 
>         Digium, Inc. | Software Developer                 
>         445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>                         
>         main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464                 
>         Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
>         
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         From: "Rajesh Kumar ( Alshaya Group International )"
>         <raj at alshaya-group.com>
>         To: "asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com"
>         <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>
>         Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:14:38 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada
>         Central
>         Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs Major
>         Rewrite
>         
>         Hey any update on fax as Digium as released fax application
>         hope to see it soon on gui
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         Regards,
>         
>         Rajesh Kumar
>         Alshaya Group International
>         raj at alshaya-group.com
>         Tel (+965 2298-0555 Ext 307)
>         Mobile (+965 9722-4083)
>         
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         From: asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com
>         <asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com>
>         To: Asterisk GUI project discussion
>         <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>
>         Sent: Mon Apr 13 22:32:59 2009
>         Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs Major
>         Rewrite
>         
>         George,
>         You are definitely right, and both are known issues.
>         
>         When I first got onto the GUI dev team and looked at the
>         queues stuff, the 'secret' sharing was one of the first red
>         flags I saw. Its since been proposed that an 'agentsecret'
>         variable be in users.conf for the very reason. And while I
>         can't update on the status of that feature, I can at least
>         report that its acknowledged.
>         
>         As for the 'an indication that the left hand doesn't know
>         about the right...', besides that that comment is a bit
>         unnecessary; its also just not true. If you look at
>         http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14459, you'll see that we
>         were aware of this at least in Feb (although I'd claim more
>         like Nov of 08), and that its a blocker for the next release
>         of the open source GUI. The reasoning for the delay in
>         development can simply be explained by listing my schedule.
>         Good news is that its next on the list. :-)
>         
>         When I begin development on AddQueueMember (replacing
>         AgentCallBackLogin), I'll report back to this thread on the
>         svn branch if you're interested in helping test.
>         
>         --
>         Ryan Brindley
>         Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
>         445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>         main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464
>         Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
>         
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         From: "George Pajari" <George.Pajari at netvoice.ca>
>         To: asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com
>         Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:04:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada
>         Central
>         Subject: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs Major
>         Rewrite
>         
>         Just started to try to use the queue agent and the current
>         implementation of the Asterisk GUI essentially renders these
>         features
>         unusable for us.
>         
>         The major problem is that the agent login password,
>         incredibly, is the
>         same as the SIP secret. Obviously this needs to be changed so
>         that the
>         agent passwords are
>         separate and independent of any other authentication
>         information (for
>         SIP or whatever). (I won't comment on the fact that this
>         little gem
>         appears not to be documented anywhere.)
>         
>         A less important issue but an indication that the left hand
>         doesn't know
>         about the right is the fact that AgentCallbackLogin is
>         deprecated in 1.4
>         (and is removed in 1.6) yet is still being used in AsteriskGUI
>         2.
>         
>         I'll hand code some stuff in the extensions.conf so we can use
>         queues
>         but either the queue support in Asterisk GUI needs to be fixed
>         or
>         removed. To have those tabs suggesting that queues can be used
>         through
>         the GUI is just cruel temptation.
>         
>         --
>         George Pajari (dCAP), netVOICE communications 604 484
>         VOIP(8647) x102
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