[asterisk-users] Hangup conundrum with RxFAX

[Gordon Henderson]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, lordfuknowsyou wrote:

>> My thoughts now are to actually do a hangup at the end of the RxFAX and
>> rely on a 'h' extension to pick it up and carry on with the 2nd half
>> (which is PDFing and emailling the fax), but I'm concerned I'm going to
>> lose the channel variables as it suggests on the wiki, so I'll lose the
>> REMOTESTATIONID string and caller ID...

> Hi.
>
> Thats what I do and have not had a problem, we only do maybe 10-20
> faxes a week though.
> I set my channel variables in a macro and then goto a context receivefax
> where I enter on s,1,Rx.Fax , on hangup I do the actual mailing and
> sending of the fax. Before the sending though I make sure the fax
> actually exists.

Thanks for this. I'll give it a go!

Cheers,

Gordon