[asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

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> 
> The downside of rx_fax is that you need to compile it into asterisk.
> 
> The downside of iaxmodem is that (to my knowledge) you can't easilly 
> implement an auto-answer/detect fax/voice/ auto attendant/voicemail 
> system. The channel must be dedicated to faxing, and that's that. This 
> may or may not be an issue for you though.
> 
> The last fax setup I did was for a small 2-person office where they had 
> an existing fax machine that answered, listened for the remote fax 
> squawk, if it didn't get it, then it rung the phones daisy-chained to 
> it, and if they didn't answer it went to answering machine. I 
> implemented this in asterisk fairly easilly with rx_fax. I'm not sure if 
> you can do that with iaxmodem.
> 

Another question along these lines : How does everyone one fax detection
on a sip channel? The only thing I've found is NvFaxDetect - anyone know
of anything else?

thanks