[asterisk-users] Another Faxing Question

[Wes Baehr]

In my (limited) experience with rxfax, it has issues with large faxes. I
soon gave up on rxfax and switched to hylafax (which works much better).
Check the wiki for installation instructions. (And hylafax will
correctly hangup when the fax has completed/failed/whatever.)

Wes Baehr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Rob Schall
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:04 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Another Faxing Question
> 
> This probably came up before, but I have a faxing question for
everyone.
> 
> I have a simple extension setup to use rxfax to receive faxes sent to
> asterisk. It is:
> 
> exten => s,1,Answer()
> exten => s,n,AbsoluteTimeout(300)
> exten =>
>
s,n,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${ARG1}_${CALLERIDNUM}_${UNIQUEI
D}
> .tif)
> exten => s,n,rxfax(${FAXFILE})
> exten => s,n,System(/usr/bin/mailfax "${ARG1}" "${FAXFILE}" "${ARG2}")
> exten => s,n,Hangup()
> exten => T,1,Hangup()
> 
> I read that you had to put a AbsoluteTimeout in there, or it might not
> hang up. My questions then are... why wouldn't it hang up without the
> timeout, and what if the fax really is that large? We sometimes get
> faxes over 150 pages.
> 
> Rob
> 
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