I looked at IAX modem, and most I know about it is from http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net/faq.php
and as far as I can tell IAXmodem doesn't do T.38 which I believe is the correct solution. But I did get pointed to t38modem at SourceForge.net which is not in ports. Again I have not tried it, and it may do the job to work with hylafax+. I would like to know if any one had done this. -----Original Message----- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Reitenbach Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 1:51 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: faxing On Monday, April 22, 2013 19:30 CEST, Peter Fraser <p...@thinkage.ca> wrote: > Several years ago I put an OpenBSD system in as a firewall and mail > server at a small charity that I volunteer at (kwaccessablility.ca) that > fixed nearly all the problems that they had with viruses, spam etc. > > Last year I talked them in to switching to VOIP (on the OpenBSD server > using Asterisk). Their phone costs dropped from over $250 per month to > less than $30 per month (I used the service from unlimitel.ca). The change is > costs per month made up for the costs of the new telephone equipment within > the year. > > Nearly all their communication that was done by fax is now done by > email, except for one organization. That organization which is run by the > city supplies transportation for physically handicapped. That organization is > insisting on faxes. They will not take email. > The charity currently has an analog fax just for the purpose of arranging > transportation, and that line is costing over $60 per month. > > I looked at email to fax services, but I believe those queue the faxes > up and send them as time is available. The charity and the > transportation organization need immediate sending and receiving. They carry > out a conversation with hand written notes (requiring the charity to type the > responses would not be a problem). > > Asterisk has a fax service, so I thought I could use that. But the > Asterisk fax sending service requires TIFF in a directory and receiving > service puts a TIFF file in a directory. > > The charity operates in a Windows environment. To the problem is: how > does a person (probably a volunteer) on a Windows machine put a TIFF > file into a directory on an OpenBSD, and in addition send the information as > to where send the fax and get back a status on success or failure of sending > a fax. > > I don't think receiving the fax will be that much of a problem; it > should be easy to take the fax out the directory and send it as an email to a > group mailbox. > > What I don't have is a good to solution for is how the person sitting at the > Windows machine is to send a fax. > There are some commercial solutions for Linux, but I have no idea if they > operate OpenBSD. > The commercial solutions are generally of the format that an email gets sent > and fax is extracted from the text of the message. > > I would like to know if anyone has done something similar or any good > suggestions on what I should do to get faxing to work > I haven't had a need for FAX yet, but maybe give hylafax together with iaxmodem a try. Both are in ports. Or maybe read up here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+fax cheers, Sebastian
