[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8.7 and ReceiveFAX

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 10/08/2011 05:17 AM, Steve Underwood wrote:
> On 10/08/2011 02:50 AM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>> On 10/07/2011 07:46 AM, Administrator TOOTAI wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I setup my first stock 1.8.7 asterisk (Ubuntu LTS 10.04 packages taken
>>> from deb http://packages.asterisk.org/deb lucid main) including dahdi
>>> from this same repository. No FFA involved.
>>>
>>> On incoming calls (only SIP, no telephony card), fax detection is
>>> working but reception failed with
>>>
>>> -- Executing [fax at from-TOOTAiAudio:19]
>>> ReceiveFAX("SIP/tootaiAUDIO-00000564", "/tmp/1317991071.1614.tiff,c") in
>>> new stack
>>> [Oct 7 14:37:52] WARNING[6961]: res_fax.c:1651 receivefax_exec:
>>> ReceiveFAX does not support polling
>>> == Spawn extension (from-TOOTAiAudio, fax, 19) exited non-zero on
>>> 'SIP/tootaiAUDIO-00000564'
>>>
>>> What can be the problem?
>>
>> You included the 'c' option to ReceiveFAX, telling it to act as the
>> 'caller', even though it isn't the caller. This argument is parsed by
>> ReceiveFAX in spite of it not being supported because the older
>> app_fax version did support it, and we didn't want dialplans that
>> included it to silently ignore the 'c' option. The same is true for
>> the 'a' option; you'll note that neither of them are included in the
>> documentation for the ReceiveFAX and SendFAX applications, and
>> shouldn't be used.
>>
>> Why did you specify the 'c' option?
>>
> Why was the ability to poll dropped from ReceiveFAX?

I honestly don't remember at this point.

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