[Asterisk-Users] How to send Fax from Asterisk

[Dave Cotton]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:00 +0900, Vic wrote:
> Dear all, 
> 
> 1. Person will call our phone number
> 2. He will be asked to press 1 for   Office 1 map, 2 for Office 2 map
> and 3 for Office 3 map.
> 3. User presses 1. 
> 
> 4. User is asked to enter his phone number.
> 
> 5. User enters his phone number and hangs up.
> 
> 6. Asterisk calls the number entered by user and sends a fax.
> 
> Can it be done?
> 
> 
>  Tom Rymes <trymes at rymesheating.com> wrote: 
>         
>         If you install Hylafax, I'm sure that you could have the
>         person 
>         choose which map they want and then enter their fax number.
>         You can 
>         then call sendfax from extensions.conf with the relevant data
>         to send 
>         the fax. Hylafax would then send the fax out using its own
>         dedicated 
>         analog or t1/e1/whatever modem (ie: not through asterisk b/c
>         that 
>         seems to be unreliable at best).
>         
>          The wiki has information on 
>         > originating
>         > calls from agi scripts.
>         >
>         > Bill
>         > _______________________________________________

Sorry for the bad quoting but the original has a strange format.

IMHO the above would answer your needs. Hylafax is a specialist in
faxing, it just works.  All you need is a bit of glue, the hooks are
already in place.


-- 
Dave Cotton <dcotton at linuxautrement.com>