Interesting trick! On the down side, won't sending this tone be pointless? If the receiver is not sure a fax is calling, then he will BEEP every caller (even voice calls). If the receiver is sure a fax is calling, why play the tones?
MD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 4:35 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Fax detection ... You can trick their machine into sending tones. The following code with send tones that a "terminating" fax machine would normally respond with. This will even force really old G2 fax machines to respond. indications.conf: faxrec = !2100/2600,!0/10,!1850/2600 [custom-fax-did] exten => s,1,SetVar(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${UNIQUEID}.tif) exten => s,2,SetVar(EMAILADDR=${FAX_RX_EMAIL}) exten => s,3,SetCallerID(<${FROM_DID}>) exten => s,4,Answer exten => s,5,Playtones(faxrec) exten => s,6,Wait(6) exten => s,7,rxfax(${FAXFILE}) exten => s,8,system(tiff2pdf -p letter ${FAXFILE} -o ${FAXFILE}.pdf) exten => s,9,system(mime-construct --to ${EMAILADDR} --subject "Fax DID ${CALLERIDNUM}" --attachment ${CALLERIDNUM}.pdf --type application/pdf --file ${FAXFILE}.pdf) exten => s,10,system(rm ${FAXFILE} ${FAXFILE}.pdf) exten => s,11,Hangup James Taylor www.metrotel.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Fax detection ... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>It all boils down to this: If they don't send a tone I won't get the fax. >> > > And I certainly understand this approach. However, there are some > situations where this is simply not suitable - where missing a fax costs > money. Take, for example, the real estate industry where a fickle > customer (isn't everyone fickle when dealing with real estate?) can be > surveying mortgage quotes (frequently done by fax) and if you don't get > their faxed authorization to pull their credit report and then you call > them two days later to find out where it is ... well that customer may > have already signed with another lender... and that just cost that agent > 1-2% of the mortgage price (so that lost fax easily cost $2000 in lost > opportunity). > > Lee. > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users