[asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception

[Andrew Joakimsen]

On 5/28/07, shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies.  Seems there are at least 2 or 3 people giving
> strong recommendations to iaxmodem/hylafax as a reliable (ie. business grade
> production) solution.  That is just the sort of feedback I was looking for.
>
> My application is just standard business reception of faxes.  Right now they
> use WinFax and probably receive about 30 to 50 faxes a day.  I want to wean
> them off Winfax as it's not really supported anymore and I dislike all
> things Symantec in general.
>
> Receiving faxes on Asterisk has the added benefit of being able to use the
> fax line as an extra outgoing line when the rest are in use.  That is what
> they are doing now on their key system and they don't want to lose that
> ability.  I don't blame them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Turnbull [mailto:duncan at e-simple.co.nz]
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 2:18 PM
> To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception
>
> I use Asterisk and Hylafax and iaxmodem to send 600+ faxes per week with no
> baby sitting, I receive about 20 and it requires no baby sitting
>
> Hylafax and iaxmodem with Asterisk works very well - check out iaxmodem and
> hylafax lists for much bigger examples
>
> Cheers Duncan
>

Hylafax does work if you are connecting to a T1 or ISDN. But that's
just Asterisk passing the data to IAXModem which does the real work,
sorry I didn't mention it in my other message I thought you actually
wanted to do something like use ATA devices for faxing or send
realtime faxes over the internet.