[asterisk-users] Asterisk and Fax

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On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:59:25 -0500
"Robert A. Rawlinson" <rarawlinson at cinci.rr.com> wrote:

> I would just put the phone line into the fax  machine and the phone jack 
> from it into the fxs card. It is a simple solution.
> Bob
> 
> --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a requirement for sending and receiving faxes and was wondering the best way to achieve it with Asterisk as
> > I only have one phone line.
> >
> > I currently have a TDM11B in my server (1 x FXO, 1 x FXS), so I was thinking that I would need to get a additional
> > FXS module, connect that to a Eicon Fax card, and then when receiving a call detect the fax tone and bridge the
> > call to the FXS channel.
> >
> > Would that work okay ? Just seems fax cards are very expensive for what they do.
> >   
> 
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The reason for going down the route I proposed was so that faxes would end up as attachments in my partners mailbox.

I am trying to centralise emails, voicemail and faxes on our home server for her business.

Regards,

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