Barry Fawthrop wrote:
Thanks Andrew
I have no plans to VoIP my Faxes to a VoIP provider
I just would like to send them from my desktop (which is windows) to
my PBX (which is AstLinux inside a net 4801)
The PBX connects to PSTN lines via a FXO Gateway (CG-410 in my case)
So really it's trying to get Windows to detect the "modem" or phone
line one the 410.
Can this still be done ?
Thanks again
Barry
Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
You can use the fax server Hylafax (
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+IAXmodem ) with
IAXmodem ( http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net/howto.php )
You really don't want to be sending faxes over the internet via VoIP
providers, not yet because there is no t.38 support for that. As long
as the connection to the PSTN is on a card on the same machine or
possibly over a network connection perhaps over a private line maybe
using TDMoE then it should work fine
On 10/24/06, *Barry Fawthrop* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi All
I'm trying to understand how I would send my fax ?
If I use Word or what ever word processor or even an email
client to
create what I want faxed.
I have *asterisk setup with and FXO Gateway that will make the
call to
the fax number I dial
SIP extension 320 is the FXO gateway.
How do I now get my email or word document to TIFF to then fax to
the
FXO gateway or SIP/320 ?
I don't understand that part. They all talk about an email with a
TIF
attachment
and the TIF attachment is sent to the number in the subject line.
Thanks all
Barry
As far as I know you can't send anything BUT a TIFF. This is how we do it:
We have winprint hylafax on client machines. This allows you to 'print'
to the fax client from any program (word, adobe, webbrowser,etc). This
communicates with hylafax on the asterisk server which in turn talks to
asterisk via IAXModem (we ARE using VOIP to fax - with about 95%
success). If you're not using voip to fax, I suppose hylafax would talk
to whatever modem you're using which in turn would call out through
asterisk.
There are other options I think, such as email to fax gateways in which
you could attach a document to an email. From what I understand this
would require you to have conversion software somewhere in the loop to
convert from pdf to tiff or from word to tiff, etc. This is just too
painful for me at the moment.
One other option that I'm considering is having clients install some
sort of conversion software on the client machine. I don't know if such
is available or not
The point of this is that I think you need somesort of fax server
software on your asterisk box. Hylafax works great for us.
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