[Asterisk-Users] Software FAX

[Brian West]

Good for you... All I can get are 8 byte tiff files.

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Brian Schrock wrote:

> Everyone,
>
> Just thought I would drop a line telling everyone here I have the software
> RxFAX/TxFAX up and running without any real problems. I did have to.....
>
> RH 9.0
>
> 1) Install an audio devel rpm
>
> 1) install libtiff from source, and copy over a bunch of include files to
> /usr/local/include
>
> 2) build/install spandsp
>
> 3) move app_rxfax.c and app_txfax.c to apps/ dir in asterisk source tree.
>
> 4) move Makefile.patch from oncall to apps/ dir in asterisk
>
> 5) patch the makefile
>
> 6) edit the makefile and remove all references to steve's home dir to make
> it point to my spandsp source directory.
>
> 7) rebuild/install asterisk
>
> 8) Create a dir incoming/ in /var/spool/asterisk
>
> 9) edit extensions.conf and add the following line to the incoming call
> contexts I have set up.
>     exten => fax,1,RxFAX(/var/spool/asterisk/incoming/${CALLERIDNUM}.tif)
>
> 10) create a script that emails me the tif files every time they are
> received in incoming/ and delete them.
>
> #/bin/sh
> cd /var/spool/asterisk/incoming
> for X in *.tif
> do
>         if [ -f $X ] ; then
>                 mutt -s "FAX from $X" -a $X laugh at anistonetech.com <
> /dev/null
>                 rm $X
>         fi
> done
>
> 11) Add a cronjob to run my script every 5 minutes.
>     */5 * * * * /usr/sbin/mailfax
>
> 12) Test and enjoy.
>
> To send a fax all I have to do is....
>
> 1) Get the .tif file on the server somewhere
>
> 2) Put a file sample.call in the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ directory and
> it looks like this...
>
> Channel: Zap/3/7989106
>
> Application: txfax
> Data: /root/fax.tiff
>
> 3) Asterisk will send it or keep trying until it send it as soon as I :wq
> the file in vi.
>
> Pretty simple, I hope this helps someone else.
>
>
> Brian J. Schrock
> Anistone Technologies, LLC
> 6926 Avery Rd.
> Dublin, OH 43017
> Phone: 614-798-9106
> FAX: 614-798-9106
>
>
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