[asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax

Eric Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Thu Jun 25 12:57:25 CDT 2015


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:29:50PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015, tux john wrote:
> > i am using asterisk 11.16 in my home office and i am using fax to email
> > with it.
> [...]
> 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.

Since the O.P. said he's using it for his home office, I think he'll
be able to control user expectations :-)

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u



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