<div dir="ltr">Ok,<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>But what is the NVFAX? Does 1.4 support getting faxes per extension?</div><div><br></div><div>In my office I have 1000 ext, each users has it's own DID number.</div>
<div>What I would like is that each user can get a fax using his own number.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm running version 1.4.29 under Debian, and FreePBX under a sip trunk. </div><div>It working great, no issues.</div>
<div>But I can't get FAXs since the NVFAX option is gray out.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not have a app_fax.so under the modules, and google it I saw you will need to patch the code of asterisk using the spandsp tool.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is also a stand alone version of this, where no patching is needed, but I still want to know what FAX options is supported under version 1.4.</div><div><br></div><div>In 1.6 the app_fax.so comes by default, but I need to upgrade the server, which might be good idea, but I'm not sure I want to get into this now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Version 1.8 seems to have digum support and spandsp support for faxes, but I'm not sure what does it mean....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>All I want is that each user has his own fax number, so when no answering, and voice mail is off (can I keep it on?), once fax is coming in, it will be converted to pdf and sent to the user mailbox.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For sending faxes, I guess I can used sendmail with IAXmodem and some faxing server.....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you all</div><div>Sassy</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Ryan McGuire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdmcguire01@gmail.com">rdmcguire01@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets<br>
and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38. The cheapest and<br>
easiest approach that I have found is to buy yourself an FXS gateway<br>
and just make sure you are using ulaw.<br>
<br>
Is this for personal use, or for business use? One feature that you<br>
may want to utilize is fax tone detection if you only have a single<br>
incoming line. If you use fax tone detection you can send the call<br>
directly to your FXS gateway.<br>
<br>
I've successfully faxed through my SIP provider as well as through an<br>
FXO gateway going to a DOCSIS modem (consumer grade "digital voice").<br>
TDM and POTS are really synonymous by the way, TDM is just a more<br>
specific acronym (time-division multiplexing). You need not worry<br>
about the details though, if you are simply doing inband passthrough<br>
and you are using 711u on your VOIP legs you should be fine... YMMV of<br>
course.<br>
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-Ryan<br>
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Steve Totaro<br>
<<a href="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com">stotaro@totarotechnologies.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:21 PM, C F <<a href="mailto:shmaltz@gmail.com">shmaltz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Sassy Natan <<a href="mailto:sassyn@gmail.com">sassyn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Hi,<br>
>>> I would like to make sure I got it right:<br>
>>> 1. Asterisk 1.4 doesn't support FAX support. It do however works if u sent<br>
>>> fax from the PSTN and have anther FAX machine answer to it even if it is<br>
>>> behind asterisk. This works like any regular phone, and as far as I know<br>
>>> this mode known as T.38 pass through.<br>
>><br>
>> No its not T.38 pass through. T.38 pass through is only if the 2 end<br>
>> points negotiated T.38, i.e. a provider that supports T.38 and an ATA<br>
>> that supports T.38. What you are describing will most likely fail if<br>
>> there is any VoIP in between, and should succeed over pure TDM using<br>
>> digium or similar cards.<br>
><br>
> Fax was never officially supported by Asterisk/Digium using TDM cards.<br>
><br>
> I works for the most part, but there is no comparison to a pure POTS<br>
> line. Much depends on the line quality, the sending and receiving fax<br>
> devices. Some places with good fax machines, PRIs coming in and some<br>
> FXS ports would work just fine.<br>
><br>
> Others, are a nightmare and make you look bad.<br>
><br>
> Depending on your customer's fax needs, sometimes it is better to tell<br>
> them to keep or have some POTS lines provisioned for reliable faxing<br>
> and to back that up, bring up being able to reach 911 if the phone<br>
> system is down and the company's liability, even though everyone has<br>
> cell phones. This is the best for TDM faxing with nothing fancy.<br>
><br>
> I have sent people to <a href="http://www.trustfax.com" target="_blank">www.trustfax.com</a><br>
><br>
> TDM faxing is something that burned me more than once, so I don't suggest it.<br>
><br>
>><br>
>>> 2. If u want asterisk 1.4 to able to sent and receive emails you will have<br>
>>> to patch the source code using the spandsp patches. There are some other<br>
>>> ways to make this work like using IAX, hylafax but I need to know if this<br>
>>> is true. This mode is what know to be as NVFAX detected<br>
>><br>
>> asterisk doesn't have the ability to send or receive emails. It does<br>
>> have the ability to use something like sendmail to send/receive<br>
>> emails.<br>
>> I'm assuming its a typo and you meant faxes.<br>
>> What exactly are you trying to accomplish? If you need to know<br>
>> something go ahead and try/test it and report back. After all that is<br>
>> what we all did to be able to answer it. Apparently the fact that<br>
>> others tried it and told you that it works still warrants a<br>
>> question:"I need to know if this is true"<br>
>><br>
><br>
> I have been advised that everyone must post their solutions to the<br>
> list so that you don't have to test. I think it was a self appointed<br>
> list moderator. People are required to come back, aknowledge that<br>
> something worked and give credit. Flaw: Just because something worked<br>
> for someone doesn't mean that your solution wouldn't work better.<br>
><br>
> Anyways, I am with you. I learned this stuff with very little<br>
> documentation except .conf examples and code. Integration is where<br>
> things get really fun and creative. Logically testing and failing and<br>
> testing until you find your solution is extremely rewarding (at least<br>
> to me). Making a Definity G3 and Asterisk fully integrate can cause<br>
> severe rage followed by euphoria, so be warned. Being creative is<br>
> dangerous to some on the list.<br>
><br>
> Try iaxmodem and hylafax. Alex B did a very nice writeup on how to<br>
> set that up so that it works very well.<br>
><br>
>><br>
>>> 3. Now version 1.6 support Fax in a better way then 1.4. There is app_fax.c<br>
>>> in the source code. Can someone please tell me what does this apps do?<br>
>><br>
>> I assume you meant than not then, but I'm not sure if its a typo, you<br>
>> might just not know.<br>
>> app_fax.c does faxing. The question is what are YOU trying to do?<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>>> 4. Version 1.8 as two modes: SpanDSP mode and some other method, what is<br>
>>> the different between then.... can someone please help?<br>
>><br>
>> Whats the other mode?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> The best mode for T38 is probably Freeswitch or Callweaver.<br>
><br>
>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks<br>
>>> Sassy<br>
>>> --<br>
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