[asterisk-users] ReceiveFAX and SendFAX questions

[David Backeberg]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Magnus Benngård
<magnus.b at inputinterior.se> wrote:
> Morning,
>
> Have some questions regarding receiving and sending faxes...
> 1:st example:
> exten => 101,1,Answer()
> exten => 101,2,Wait(3)
> exten => 101,3,ReceiveFAX(/var/spool/asterisk/tmp/fax.tiff)

You example is correct in theory. The problem is that after receive
fax completes, the sending side usually hangs up, so it's far safer to
do your conversion and any other steps in the hangup context, as in
h,1,System,
etc.