[asterisk-users] Re: Asterisk Faxing Support

[Matthew Fredrickson]

On Feb 8, 2007, at 6:55 AM, Tomislav Parčina wrote:

> In article 
> <23fd749a0702050057l24216509yb87879ba8c48f676 at mail.gmail.com>, 
> joakimsen at gmail.com says...
>> Asterisk 1.2 has no support of t.38 whatsoever, the call will drop
>> before t.38 is ever utilised, not even pass-thru.
>>
>> 1.4 Adds support for T.38 pass through only and no other sort of
>> faxing, the endpoint must support T.38 and you must send your call to
>> a T.38 gateway and you must not use NAT anywhere in  your network and
>> you must enable re-invites which could cause CDRs not to reflect the
>> true details of the call.
>>
>> Asterisk/Digium also has no interest in any further interest in
>> expanding T.38 or faxing support in Asterisk.
>>
>> Steve Underwood and the other fine persons that have helped to develop
>> the software DSPs and other stuff required for FoIP support also have
>> no interest in writing any further faxing support for Asterisk (RxFax,
>> TxFax + the newest span_dsp wont even compile, much less work under
>> Asterisk any more) probably because they know it will never be
>> included into the Asterisk code.
>
> Someone please tell me this isn't truth.

Of course this isn't true.  We never, ever, deny good patches.  What 
reason would we not be interested in having fax support in asterisk?  
We just don't maintain or own those patches, so we are limited to what 
we can do with them.

Matthew Fredrickson