Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:27:48 +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > My other thought (though I realise Gert Doering probably wouldn't > approve) might be to use hylafax for faxing - it certainly claims to > work with class-1 modems... but it isn't obvious that it would be > straightforward to merge tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

Stroller wrote: "Imminent" would not be a correct statement of the current status. See That rather clarifies plans then... My personal (and possibly ill-informed) hunch is that it should be possible to make faxing with a class-1 work at least a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

On Apr 21, 2005, at 6:52 pm, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: There was an interesting bit in the vgetty faq about potential imminent support for class 1 fax modems... but there was no hint as to a timescale. "Imminent" would not be a correct statement of the current status. See

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

James Hiscock wrote: This is a Class 1 faxmodem, which, AFAIR, doesn't work with m|vgetty. ...yeah... [vm]getty has no support for Class 1 fax, but it's (theoretically) still ok for voice... Hmmm - I've just looked out a manual and it seems to agree with you... and until this hint I'd no idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

> This is a Class 1 faxmodem, which, AFAIR, doesn't work with m|vgetty. ...yeah... [vm]getty has no support for Class 1 fax, but it's (theoretically) still ok for voice... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:19:36 +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > I've a Pace 56Voice External one (RS232 interface) which (as far as I > remember) worked well with Talkworks under NT4 several years ago... and > until recently performed robustly for dialup. This is a Class 1 faxmodem, which, AFAIR, d

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

James Hiscock wrote: You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to get it working, but it's pretty straight-forward. That looks lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

Stroller wrote: I'm migrating to Asterisk Real Soon Now (tm), but it certainly won't support any of your current hardware - it's more appropriate if you want to do VoIP, probably involving routing all your telephone calls through it. If you have to ask, you probably don't want to use Asterisk

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:25 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I've been using vgetty - the version in Portage is pretty good, and once I actually sat down to configure it I had it mostly up & running over the course of an evening - I think it sounds much more complicated than it is I'm migrating to A

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

Stroller wrote: I've been doing this for about a year & a half now - it's very convenient. :-) It wouldn't be hard to be more convenient than my dodgey "Audioline" digital answerphone! understand that [vm]gety is a very low-level approach (which sounds a fair bit of work) and of Asterisk (whi

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

> What do other gentoo users do for answer phone and/or fax services for a > POTS line? You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:33 pm, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment ... I've been doing thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

Joseph wrote: Asterisk - for answering system (might be overkill) Hylafax - for fax server Hmmm - That was my take on Asterisk too... if it really is the best way to do a voice-mail system - then I guess I should take the plunge... I'd still be interested to know if there are viable alternativ

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated > hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - > and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some > appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happ

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

Asterisk - for answering system (might be overkill) Hylafax - for fax server -- #Joseph On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:33 +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated > hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - > and h

[gentoo-user] Fax & answerphone/voicemail server...

I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen to be. I've heard of B