[asterisk-users] asterisk fax handeling

[David Backeberg]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Peter den Hartog
<peterdenhartog at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if the following was possible:
> When somebody sends a fax to my direct number 0101234567105 (my extension
> will be 105) is it possible that Asterisk, or an addon sees this as a fax,
> and e-mail the fax to me?
> So everybody with a private extension will be able to receive faxes in his
> e-mailbox on his direct number.
> Any pointers would be highly appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Peter

I've seen other requests for this before. Is this a common thing people ask for?

I've always thought 'send a fax with a cover sheet' to a general
number was good enough.

As for the rest of it, you can convert a tiff from SpanDSP into a PDF
using a linux utility like tiff2pdf, and it's your call how best you
want to set up an automail utility.