In my (limited) experience with rxfax, it has issues with large faxes. I soon gave up on rxfax and switched to hylafax (which works much better). Check the wiki for installation instructions. (And hylafax will correctly hangup when the fax has completed/failed/whatever.)
Wes Baehr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Schall > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:04 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [asterisk-users] Another Faxing Question > > This probably came up before, but I have a faxing question for everyone. > > I have a simple extension setup to use rxfax to receive faxes sent to > asterisk. It is: > > exten => s,1,Answer() > exten => s,n,AbsoluteTimeout(300) > exten => > s,n,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${ARG1}_${CALLERIDNUM}_${UNIQUEI D} > .tif) > exten => s,n,rxfax(${FAXFILE}) > exten => s,n,System(/usr/bin/mailfax "${ARG1}" "${FAXFILE}" "${ARG2}") > exten => s,n,Hangup() > exten => T,1,Hangup() > > I read that you had to put a AbsoluteTimeout in there, or it might not > hang up. My questions then are... why wouldn't it hang up without the > timeout, and what if the fax really is that large? We sometimes get > faxes over 150 pages. > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > --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