[asterisk-users] Transfer to fax

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 02/24/2012 03:32 PM, Mike Diehl wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a user that has one phone number an wants to be able to us it for
> both voice and fax.
>
> When a fax call comes in, he wants to do some incantation on the keypad and
> have the call go to the fax machine.
>
> As I see it, he has 3 options.
>
> 1.  (blind?) Transfer it to the fax extension.
>
> 2.  Use features.conf to create a key sequence, say *2, to dial/transfer to a
> fax extension.
>
> 3.  Use fax detect (SIP) to do it automatically.  However I'm also using FFA,
> so I suspect these are mutually exclusive.

They are not. Enabling faxdetect should do exactly what you want; it 
will redirect the call to the 'fax' extension in the current context, 
and you can then Dial() your FAX machine (or send the call to ReceiveFAX).

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