[Asterisk-Users] Email2fax big problemo

[Lee Howard]

Andrew Nowrot wrote:

> Few days ago I installed Email2fax application on my Asterisk box. I 
> works but not in 100 %. Sometimes (to be certain quite often) I don't 
> receive the whole fax. My fax machine cuts off transmission in 1/2 or 
> 1/3 of the page. I read about it on a wiki and some user lists and 
> people say that this behaviour could be cause be the Ghostscript and 
> the conversion to the tiff format, but when I sent an email with tiff 
> format as a attachment I got the same result (I receive only half of 
> the page). Other said the this is cause by the 2.4 kernel and I should 
> change it to 2.6, but I'm not sure if they are right. (I must say that 
> I can't change my kernel because of some other applications). I also 
> read that this situation could be caused by the spandsp library.
> My question is what can I do to have this working in 100 %. Many 
> people say that they don't have such a problem, despite they have 
> similar configuration of Asterisk (same kernel, spandsp). Maybe it is 
> txfax problem? Does anyone have a solution?? 


What is the path from your Asterisk box to your fax machine, and what 
codecs are being used in-between?  For example, is it: (?)

Asterisk -> TDM -> Fax Machine

Or is it

Asterisk -> uLaw+IAX -> IAXy -> Fax Machine

Or what?

Lee.