I think a smb connector would be an very handy way to address this, not necessarily in sipx, but to be able to put in user credentials for another system with smb and define:
user pass host share<optional and helpful to also state directory in the share> Which is how a lot of fax/copiers do things now, besides email and ftp. This wouldn;t matter if the SMB host is windows or linux. I don't think how the faxes are simply emailed out and disappear is the ultimate goal. If they are going to be stored in /var/sipxdata in the user mailstore, then the userui and voicemail ivr needs to be able to acknowledge them. There needs to be a tiff or pdf viewer plugin/handling added to the userui to handle them. If they were copied after emailing to a smb share, it can be treated like a "file'. I've just completed a crappy lexmark intregration to a customers smb NAS, which auto syncs to the Internet via another service using a fanciful rsync deployment. In lexmark's case, they could only send faxes to the root of the share, but the same device could send scans to any directory (path) on the share. How appropriately inconsistent! To get around this we wrote a script to move them where they need to go and theyn they autosync to the cloud provider in a few minutes. I don't mean to sound overly simplistic, but the SMB connection is kinda easy when I think about it (i'm not a programmer though). Getting the sipxIvr to use it perhaps more problematic. BUT if the smb connector is takcled, that would be a "better" way to address sipx backups (IMO). On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Michael Picher <[email protected]> wrote: > Are the received faxes deposited in any way into the user's voicemail > directory or only e-mailed? > If they are only e-mailed what might it take to maybe write inbound messages > to a /var/sipxdata/fax/ folder or something similar? > Thanks, > Mike > > -- > Michael Picher > eZuce > Director of Technical Services > O.978-296-1005 X2015 > M.207-956-0262 > @mpicher <http://twitter.com/mpicher> > www.ezuce.com > > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev/ > -- ====================== Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 sip: [email protected] Fax: 434.465.6833 Email: [email protected] LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 sip: [email protected] Helpdesk Contract Customers: http://support.myitdepartment.net Blog: http://blog.myitdepartment.net Linked-In Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tony-graziano/14/4a6/7a4 Ask about our Internet faxservices! _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev/
