[Asterisk-Users] FAX, IAX and *....Maybe I'm dreaming...:-)

[Steven Critchfield]

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 05:14, Dan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven Critchfield" <critch at basesys.com>
> 
> > Sounds like you want app_rcfax at the pstn to decode the fax data, then
> > it would somehow transfer the image file to your local machine via the
> > slow link and use app_tcfax to send the image to your local fax machine.
> 
> Yup!
> This is what would be great to exist.
> I want to be able to reliable transfer faxes between Asterisk servers using
> slow links, but still keeping the standard fax functionality locally.

While I haven't tested it much, my first use of app_rxfax and app_txfax
worked fine. The glue is little more than procmail and sample.call
combined with working mail servers. 

I have faith that Steve's work will continue to make the functionality
better and it will work more often with the variety of fax machines out
there.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>