On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Kevin Fitzgerald wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I need to set up a Fax and Answering machine for my business. Normally I
> would set up the Copy of Winfax I own and it would do the job perfectly
> but I wondered if anyone out there has done a similar thing with Linux?
> What Software is available that will answer a phone line. Determine if
> it is an incoming fax or a caller and then repond by either recieving
> the fax or playing a message and recording the caller.
>
> I look forward to hearing some responses
As Kevin Saenz says, vgetty is the low level application for voicemail
type stuff. It can be set to answer voice/fax/data calls depending on the
modem. Make sure it's an external serial voice capable modem (a lot of
them are and all the ones I've found also do fax). Some of them are not so
good at distinguishing the types of calls in this country.
As for whether vgetty will play well with Hylafax I don't know. That
combination I have not tried. It normally uses it's own faxgetty to answer
the calls. I'd rate the chance of them working together fairly high
though - maybe use one for recieve & the other for transmit.
Somebody also suggested to me, on another list, using Asterisk which is a
linux based PABX. I've just ordered a compatible line card to see if it's
much better than using voice modems. My purpose would primarily be to
handle voice calls although offering a faxback service would be great too.
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