[Asterisk-Users] Re: Fax questions

[Ronald Wiplinger]

Jesse Guardiani wrote:

Thank you for you time to help setting up fax.
I still have some questions.

>[macro-faxreceive]
>exten => s,1,SetVar(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${UNIQUEID}.tif)
>exten => s,2,DBGet(EMAILADDR=extensionemail/${MACRO_EXTEN})
>exten => s,3,rxfax(${FAXFILE})
>exten => s,103,SetVar(EMAILADDR=jesse at wingnet.net)
>exten => s,104,Goto(3)
>
>[fax]
>exten => 2201,1,Macro(faxreceive)
>exten => 2202,1,Macro(faxreceive)
>exten => 2203,1,Macro(faxreceive)
>
>exten => h,1,system(/usr/local/sbin/mailfax ${FAXFILE} ${EMAILADDR} "${CALLERIDNUM} ${CALLERIDNAME}")
>
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has the sender dial the extensions 2201 ~ 2203 ?

You said it would automatically go to [fax] if in zapata.conf is set
faxdetect=both

If so, than we could use NO number, but "s" as extension, would that be 
right?


>NOTE: asterisk automatically jumps to the [fax] context if you are using
>faxdetect in your zapata.conf
>
>NOTE2: mailfax is a custom script I wrote. This is what it looks like:
>
>---------------------- START mailfax script ------------------------------
>#!/bin/sh
>
>FAXFILE=$1
>RECIPIENT=$2
>FAXSENDER=$3
>FAXID=`date +%j%H%M%S`
>tempfoo="fax"
>TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/${tempfoo}XXXXXX`
>TMPFILE_A=`mktemp /tmp/${tempfoo}XXXXXX`.pdf
>
>
>/usr/bin/tiff2pdf -p letter "${FAXFILE}" > "${TMPFILE_A}"
>metasend -b -t "$RECIPIENT" -s "Fax from $FAXSENDER" \
>  -f "${TMPFILE}" -m 'text/plain' -n \
>  -m 'application/pdf;name="fax'${FAXID}'.pdf"' -f "${TMPFILE_A}" \
>  -D 'PDF Fax Document'
>
>rm "${TMPFILE}"
>rm "${TMPFILE_A}"
>---------------------- END mailfax script ------------------------------
>
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>
I don't have found metasend on my system. Do you know where it is?

>I based this config on the excellent information found at the following
>website:
>    http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000152.html
>
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>
At this web site I find also a line:

|*CLI> database put extensionemail 2202 bob at example.com

How does that fit together with|
macro-faxreceive,103   ???



This methode would cover the part of receiving a fax via a zap device, how to exend it to receive a fax from a remote gateway via G711?


bye

Ronald