<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We have done this with various methods just routing the DID through asterisk. Just transfer down one of your FXS ports, or we even have a few clients use SIP gateway devices and connect the fax to that, and then we direct the call to the sip device via its extension, and the fax answers and receives. All without spandsp/FFA installed at all.<div><br><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Trevor Benson</div><div>A1 Networks</div><div>(707)570-2021 x201</div><div><a href="mailto:tbenson@a-1networks.com">tbenson@a-1networks.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Ryan Brindley wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I'm not a fax expert, but I imagine if you have certain DIDs for faxing that Asterisk can route those to the fax server. I think I've heard of that before...again...I've never personally done an installation requiring this, only heard of it. You can ask in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a>, or IRC, or anything for a better answer, if no one else chimes in. :-)<br><br>-- <br>Ryan Brindley <br>Digium, Inc. | Software Developer <br>445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA <br>main: +1 256-428-6000 fax: +1 256-864-0464 <br>Check us out at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://digium.com">http://digium.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>&<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://asterisk.org">http://asterisk.org</a><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Bob Crandell" <<a href="mailto:bob@assuredcomp.com">bob@assuredcomp.com</a>><br>To: "Ryan Brindley" <<a href="mailto:rbrindley@digium.com">rbrindley@digium.com</a>><br>Cc: "Asterisk GUI project discussion" <<a href="mailto:asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com">asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com</a>><br>Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:40:01 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI<br><br>Ryan,<br><br>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?<br><br>Sounds like FFA is going to turn Asterisk into a pretty sweet product and with your GUI on top of it ... wow.<br><br>Thanks<br>Bob<br><br>On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:06 -0500, Ryan Brindley wrote:<blockquote><font color="#000000">Bob,</font><br><font color="#000000">Digium just released Fax For Asterisk (FFA,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/faxforasterisk.php)">http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/faxforasterisk.php)</a>. Rajesh was wondering when a GUI page would be committed, so that users could use the new FFA on the GUI.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">-- </font><br><font color="#000000">Ryan Brindley </font><br><font color="#000000">Digium, Inc. | Software Developer </font><br><font color="#000000">445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA </font><br><font color="#000000">main: +1 256-428-6000 fax: +1 256-864-0464 </font><br><font color="#000000">Check us out at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://digium.com">http://digium.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>&<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://asterisk.org">http://asterisk.org</a></font><br><br><font color="#000000">----- Original Message -----</font><br><font color="#000000">From: "Bob Crandell" <<a href="mailto:bob@assuredcomp.com">bob@assuredcomp.com</a>></font><br><font color="#000000">To: "Asterisk GUI project discussion" <<a href="mailto:asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com">asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com</a>></font><br><font color="#000000">Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 8:37:59 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central</font><br><font color="#000000">Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI</font><br><br><font color="#000000">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?</font><br><br><br><font color="#000000">On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 08:06 -0500, Ryan Brindley wrote:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><br><blockquote><font color="#000000">Rajesh,</font><br><font color="#000000">Unfortunately, its still in the discussion stage. I'll give an update when I hear anything.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">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.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">-- </font><br><font color="#000000">Ryan Brindley </font><br><font color="#000000">Digium, Inc. | Software Developer </font><br><font color="#000000">445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA </font><br><font color="#000000">main: +1 256-428-6000 fax: +1 256-864-0464 </font><br><font color="#000000">Check us out at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://digium.com">http://digium.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>&<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://asterisk.org">http://asterisk.org</a></font><br><br><font color="#000000">----- Original Message -----</font><br><font color="#000000">From: "Rajesh Kumar ( Alshaya Group International )" <<a href="mailto:raj@alshaya-group.com">raj@alshaya-group.com</a>></font><br><font color="#000000">To: "<a href="mailto:asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com">asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com">asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com</a>></font><br><font color="#000000">Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:14:38 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central</font><br><font color="#000000">Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs Major Rewrite</font><br><br><font color="#000000">Hey any update on fax as Digium as released fax application hope to see it soon on gui</font><br><br><br><br><br><font color="#000000">Regards,</font><br><br><font color="#000000">Rajesh Kumar</font><br><font color="#000000">Alshaya Group International</font><br><font color="#000000"><a href="mailto:raj@alshaya-group.com">raj@alshaya-group.com</a></font><br><font color="#000000">Tel (+965 2298-0555 Ext 307)</font><br><font color="#000000">Mobile (+965 9722-4083)</font><br><br><font color="#000000">----- Original Message -----</font><br><font color="#000000">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:asterisk-gui-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-gui-bounces@lists.digium.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:asterisk-gui-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-gui-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>></font><br><font color="#000000">To: Asterisk GUI project discussion <<a href="mailto:asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com">asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com</a>></font><br><font color="#000000">Sent: Mon Apr 13 22:32:59 2009</font><br><font color="#000000">Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs Major Rewrite</font><br><br><font color="#000000">George,</font><br><font color="#000000">You are definitely right, and both are known issues.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">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.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">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<a href="http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14459">http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14459</a>, 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. :-)</font><br><br><font color="#000000">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.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">--</font><br><font color="#000000">Ryan Brindley</font><br><font color="#000000">Digium, Inc. | Software Developer</font><br><font color="#000000">445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA</font><br><font color="#000000">main: +1 256-428-6000 fax: +1 256-864-0464</font><br><font color="#000000">Check us out at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://digium.com">http://digium.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>&<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://asterisk.org">http://asterisk.org</a></font><br><br><font color="#000000">----- Original Message -----</font><br><font color="#000000">From: "George Pajari" <<a href="mailto:George.Pajari@netvoice.ca">George.Pajari@netvoice.ca</a>></font><br><font color="#000000">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com">asterisk-gui@lists.digium.com</a></font><br><font color="#000000">Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:04:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central</font><br><font color="#000000">Subject: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs Major Rewrite</font><br><br><font color="#000000">Just started to try to use the queue agent and the current</font><br><font color="#000000">implementation of the Asterisk GUI essentially renders these features</font><br><font color="#000000">unusable for us.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">The major problem is that the agent login password, incredibly, is the</font><br><font color="#000000">same as the SIP secret. Obviously this needs to be changed so that the</font><br><font color="#000000">agent passwords are</font><br><font color="#000000">separate and independent of any other authentication information (for</font><br><font color="#000000">SIP or whatever). (I won't comment on the fact that this little gem</font><br><font color="#000000">appears not to be documented anywhere.)</font><br><br><font color="#000000">A less important issue but an indication that the left hand doesn't know</font><br><font color="#000000">about the right is the fact that AgentCallbackLogin is deprecated in 1.4</font><br><font color="#000000">(and is removed in 1.6) yet is still being used in AsteriskGUI 2.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">I'll hand code some stuff in the extensions.conf so we can use queues</font><br><font color="#000000">but either the queue support in Asterisk GUI needs to be fixed or</font><br><font color="#000000">removed. To have those tabs suggesting that queues can be used through</font><br><font color="#000000">the GUI is just cruel temptation.</font><br><br><font color="#000000">--</font><br><font color="#000000">George Pajari (dCAP), netVOICE communications 604 484 VOIP(8647) x102</font><br><font color="#000000"> <a href="http://www.netvoice.ca">www.netvoice.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <a href="http://www.ip-centrex.ca">www.ip-centrex.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <a href="http://www.ip-pbx.ca">www.ip-pbx.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <a href="http://www.vpas.ca">www.vpas.ca</a></font><br><font color="#000000"> <a href="http://www.digium.ca">www.digium.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.grandstream.ca">www.grandstream.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sipura.ca">www.sipura.ca</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.snom.ca">www.snom.ca</a></font><br><font color="#000000">Open Source VoIP/Telephony Specialists 1 877 NET VOIP (638 8647 x102)</font><br><br><br><font color="#000000">_______________________________________________</font><br><font color="#000000">--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.api-digital.com">http://www.api-digital.com</a>--</font><br><br><font color="#000000">asterisk-gui mailing list</font><br><font color="#000000">To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:</font><br><font color="#000000"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-gui">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-gui</a></font><br><br><font color="#000000">_______________________________________________</font><br><font color="#000000">--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.api-digital.com">http://www.api-digital.com</a>--</font><br><br><font color="#000000">asterisk-gui mailing list</font><br><font color="#000000">To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:</font><br><font color="#000000"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-gui">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-gui</a></font><br><br><pre><font color="#000000">_______________________________________________</font>
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