[Asterisk-Users] Software FAX

[Steve Underwood]

Lists wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Brian Schrock wrote:
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>>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
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>>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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>WHat is the chance, that digium will put this application into CVS?
>

Zero...... until its a bit more polished, and then close to 100% :-)

Regards,
Steve