[asterisk-users] Fax for Asterisk - Fax routing based on TSID

[Danny Nicholas]

Receipt of the fax could be handled in the manner you describe using
something like Ghostscript to parse the partial file into pages as it came
in.  Sending the file is pretty much an "all or none" proposition unless you
did something funky like splitting the file into chunks and sending in
consecutive sessions.  I'm pretty sure FFA doesn't let you say send 1&2&3
etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Karl Fife
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:02 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] Fax for Asterisk - Fax routing based on TSID

I'm using Fax For Asterisk, and trying to optimize the user experience while

ROUTING faxes based on the Transmitting Station ID [sic] (NOT the CALLERID).

Specifically I'm trying to eliminate end-user confusion as "that fifty page 
fax" spools to a file, creating a significant delay, leaving the user to 
wonder "why am I not getting my fax--they said it's currently sending".  A 
better user-experience would be to begin TX'ing the fax (at the same or 
slower speed than RX) after a page or two has  been spooled as a buffer.

If I'm using SendFax from the dialplan it appears that I would need to spool

an entire incoming fax to file (to completion) before I could route said fax

based on the Transmitting Station ID

However if I were to drive the fax process from manager rather than from the

dialplan, would the TSID be available for read before RX completion, AND 
(equally important) would sendfax even tolerate sending a fax from an 
still-spooling RX file?  In other words, does the  application require that 
the spool file be complete and closed before it would allow you to begin 
paying it out 'from the top'?


Thanks
-Karl


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