[Asterisk-Users] FAX and Asterisk

[Lee Howard]

Rene Nelson wrote:

> I want to accept faxes via SIP/IAX2 (yes I've read the posts that it 
> isnt reccomended).  My PBX is 100% Virtual with the exception of one 
> IAX connection to bring in the calls from another * box, I have no 
> phone hardware.  I am interested in doing autodetect fax to email.  I 
> have found all kinds of posts to this or that, but all seem to 
> reference Asterisk 1.0.x or 1.1.x I am running 1.2.x.
>  
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this solution up and 
> running?


The right thing to do first would be to contact your SIP/IAX2 provider 
and find out if your connection to them will always be jitter-free (and 
this is not likely to be the case).  If it will be then you can do 
faxing to their equipment.  If not (and this is probably the case), then 
you will be wasting a lot of time faxing that way and you should 
probably just get a fax account with an on-line fax service.

Lee.