[Asterisk-Users] fax to email

[Altus Snyman]

How do I fax a .tiff file with asterisk?


On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:13, Michael Welter wrote:
> Altus Snyman wrote:
> > and email-fax??
> > The other way around
> > 
> > 
> You can run a simple mail server on the * box to accept emails addressed 
> to the .fax domain (i.e. "mike at 3036742575.fax").  This presumes you are 
> able to forward the .fax domain from your main mail server to the * box. 
>   Once you have the email at the * box, it is a simple matter to convert 
> the .ps or .pdf attachment to .tiff and send it to the fax machine. 
> This method requires that the user convert the document to .ps or .pdf 
> before attaching it to the email.
> 
> The second method is print-to-fax.  This requires the configuration of a 
> Samba "printer" on the * box.  Using the print function in MS Office 
> (Word, Excel, etc.) client, the user would print a document to the 
> "printer".  At the Samba interface, the .ps document would be captured, 
> converted to .tiff, and sent.  This method requires that the user embed 
> the cover sheet, including the fax number into the document.
> 
> The third method is to give your users a Windows printer plug-in that 
> would send the cover sheet information along with the document (I'm 
> working on this as we speak).  This plug-in allows the user to send an 
> address book entry along with the document, and the address book 
> information is then used to compose the cover sheet.
> 
> Cheers,