On Saturday 22 November 2008 09:10:39 am Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Noah Miller wrote: > > Hi Ken - > > > >> Hey, all. When I last was heavily into Asterisk (1.0.x), setting up to > >> receive faxes was, well, a PITA, what with having to patch the Asterisk > >> install with various driver patches and this, that, and the other. > >> > >> Is that still true? Is there a fax HOWTO out there that reflects > >> Asterisk 1.4.x? > > > > Not sure if you mean IP faxing or TDM faxing, but I don't think you'll > > need to do any patching. In general check out: > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+fax > > > > For IP faxes, check out the wiki here: > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+T.38 > > > > AFAIK: 1.4.x can't terminate IP faxes - only pass through, while 1.6.x > > can pass through and terminate with the help of spandsp. > > Does this mean that 1.4 lost an ability that 1.2 currently has? Right now, > with 1.2, I use spandsp (or rather the RxFAX application which uses > spandsp) to terminate faxes and save them as TIF files, then outside > asterisk email them to the appropriate destination... I'm currently > looking at moving to 1.4 and this is something that's essential for me... > I guess it's time to look deeper into this.
with 1.6, i'm using this: http://messinet.com/?page_name=AsteriskFAXGateway to do email-fax gatewaying in both directions. i suppose it could also work with 1.4's tx_fax and rx_fax which i think are in the agx-ast-addons package available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/agx-ast-addons/ -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E
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