[asterisk-users] Setup ReceiveFax(), fax2mail, mime-construct - but now Sendmail :(

[Anthony Messina]

On Friday 19 December 2008 20:24:11 sean darcy wrote:
> Using 1.6 on Fedora Core 9 I'm trying to receive faxes. I've got this far:
>
> [incoming-fax]
> exten =>
> s,1,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y%m%d%H%M)}-0
>${CALLERIDNUM}) exten => s,2,ReceiveFAX(${FAXFILE}.tif)
> exten => s,3,Hangup()
> exten=>h,1,System(/usr/local/bin/fax2mail --cid-number "0${CALLERIDNUM}"
> --cid-name "home fax" --dest-name "admin"  --dest-email "${admin_email}"
> -f  "${FAXFILE}")
>
> which all seems work well on the CLI. No errors.
>
> fax2mail uses mime-contruct to send the fax by sendmail. That didn't work.
>
> No email. /var/log/maillog:
>
> Dec 19 21:04:53 asterisk sendmail[2628]: mBH2mWvQ006043:
> to=<admin at myco.com>, ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain> (0/0),
> delay=2+23:16:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=6640305,
> relay=mx01.1and1.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out
> with mx01.1and1.com.
> Dec 19 21:04:53 asterisk sendmail[2628]: mBH2mWvS006043:
> to=<admin at myco.com>, ctladdr=<root at localhost.localdomain> (0/0),
> delay=2+23:16:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=6640312,
> relay=mx00.1and1.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out
> with mx00.1and1.com.
>
> I've avoided MTA's like sendmail for a _long_ time. So I need help.
>
> 1. Is this the right list to try to resolve this? If not, which list?
>
> 2. postfix seems to considered much easier to configure than sendmail.
> Do I install postfix? If so, will this work out of the box?
>
> 3. If sendmail, what's the magic configuration?
>

i'm still working on this, but take a look at 
http://messinet.com/viewvc/asterisk-fax-gw/trunk/

currently, i use postfix, which seems easier to me to configure than sendmail

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