[Asterisk-Users] Re: *HOWTO* : using mime-construct with outlook - send fax to email recipient

[Jesse Guardiani]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:50:18 -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:50:07 -0400, Brian Dingman wrote:
> 
>> Can anybody maybe help me a little here. I made the changes below...
>> but I don't think I did them exactly correct. When I get a fax now, it
>> is named:
>> _var_spool_asterisk_fax_1114530379.5.tif.pdf
>> 
>> I think the problem is with the second line.
>> $p .= cont "Content-Type: $type;\n name=" .
>>  token_quote($arg) . "\n"
> 
> Why don't you just use the metamail package instead? Here's how
> I did it:
> 
> [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}")

Whoops! Looks like I forgot to include this:

; Fax tone detected
exten => fax,1,Goto(fax,2201,1)


I use the above from inside an IVR, that's why I've
modularized it into a fax context with a high numbered
extension.



> 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 ------------------------------
> 
> I based this config on the excellent information found at the following
> website:
>     http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000152.html
> 
> But note that I heavily modified the mailfax script from the original
> version. Why?
>     1.) The original used the Perl mime-construct script, which has a lot
>         of annoying Perl dependencies.
>     2.) The original didn't send usable MIME attachments to me. Neither
>         KMail or Evolution could successfully decode the attachment
>         because the email contained no text/plain part.
> My script uses metasend from the metamail package, instead of
> mime-construct, and it adds an empty text/plain section at the beginning
> of the email so that KMail and Evolution and probably other mail clients
> can decode the attachment properly. The trade off is that it has to use
> temporary files. Uck. :)
> 
> Also, you'll probably have to change some of the paths for things like
> tiff2pdf and metasend.
> 
> HTH!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> On 2/7/05, Asterisk <asterisk at dotr.com> wrote:
>>> We've managed to setup spandsp to receive faxes and email them to the
>>> appropriate person.
>>> 
>>> We did all of our testing using Thunderbird, and the attached pdf files
>>> worked very well. However, when we went "live", some people complained
>>> that the attachments in outlook were named <<subject>>.dat instead (for
>>> example) of 123456.pdf
>>> 
>>> Having looked into the mime-construct script, we noticed a subtle
>>> difference between working Outlook attachments and Thunderbird. The
>>> differences are shown below in case anyone is interested.
>>> 
>>> left is the original mime-construct, right is our modified version
>>> 
>>> 332c332
>>> <           $part_header .= "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="
>>> ---
>>>  >           $part_header .= "Content-Disposition: inline; filename="
>>> 405c405
>>> <               $p .= cont "Content-Type: $type\n"
>>> ---
>>>  >               $p .= cont "Content-Type: $type;\n name=" .
>>> token_quote($arg) . "\n"
>>> 
>>> Outlook now names the attachment correctly, and Thunderbird also seems
>>> to work just as well with the changes.
>>> 
>>> Hope someone finds this useful.
>>> 
>>> Julian.
>>> 
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