iaxmodem works great with asterisk, at least under 4.7 with asterisk 1.6. A little bit tricky at startup to get the right sequence with hylafax, asterisk, iaxmodem.
André 2013/4/22 Sebastian Reitenbach <sebas...@l00-bugdead-prods.de>: > 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 > -- André -- There are no problems, just issues and tickets.
