[asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception

[randulo]

> So what is the bottom line?  Does it work or not.  I've heard stories it
> works, it doesn't work, it kinda sorta works when it's not raining out side.
> Everything under the rainbow.

I have comiled stats on my asterisk pbx over the last three years.

All spam faxes arrive perfectly readable. For actual documents faxed
by customers, one in 5 work. Because of this I removed the PDF
conversion. In a perfect world, emailing a PDF would be a joy. In the
real world we tell people "this is the 21st century, use email".

For the rare customer that can't use email or snailmail, we have a
windoze share program called Mighty Fax  that receives all faxes sent
to us perfectly. So, the bottom line as you say, is a $29.95 shareware
that receives all faxes and rx_fax, free, that receives faxes when it
wants to and seems to love spam faxes.