[Asterisk-Users] Testing asterisk faxing functionality

[Corey S. McFadden]

You could always use System() to copy a call spool file to launch the 
outbound fax call.  I don't really think a 3rd party app is necessary.

-Corey



On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Gary Richardson wrote:

> I was playing with the fax stuff over IP on Friday. Unless you're
> receiving faxes from a PSTN circuit, it doesn't work so well.
> 
> Also, I don't think you can chain txfax and rxfax like that. When you
> hit the s,2 part, it's going to play the fax out to the handset you
> dialed from. You'll need something like hylafax to send the fax.
> 
> And you probably want to call Dial(Local/1234567 at context) to call a
> local extension..
> 
> On 3/27/06, patryk <pkonczyk at plus.net> wrote:
> > I have asterisk with rxfax txfax modules.I want
> > to test fax sendig and reciving in one asterisk
> > instance, in extensions.conf I have :
> >
> > exten => 1234567,1,rxfax(/home/patryk/fax-new.tif|debug)
> >
> > exten => s,1,Dial(1234567)
> > exten => s,2,txfax(/home/patryk/fax.tif|caller|debug)
> >
> > but I doesn't seem to work.But when I'm calling on this number I can
> > hear fax tones.
> > I can't find sip client with fax fuctionality for linux I think it would
> > help with testing.
> >
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