[asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax

[A J Stiles]

On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015, tux john wrote:
> hello everyone.
> i am using asterisk 11.16 in my home office and i am using fax to email
> with it. i am quite happy with the way it works, no problems at all. when
> a fax arrives in a particular DID then the system sends it with mailutils
> to my email address as pdf. there is not any email address setup in the
> system, simply mailutils. 

> i would like to add email to fax functionality to the system. could someone
> point me to the right direction to see how please?

Beware!  This is an exercise fraught with pitfalls for the unwary.  Your users 
will expect to be able to e-mail any proprietary format and have it appear on 
the remote fax machine exactly as though it would on their own printer; and 
will blame you when it doesn't work because nothing else can read the files 
produced by an ancient piece of closed-source software that worked only with 
one particular obsolete version of Windows.

The correct procedure if some pointy-haired type asks you to do this, is to 
run away as fast as possible.

-- 
AJS

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