I think the way to approach this is with a feature request in the JIRA. I don't know that this is the way to go (Hylafax/Avantfax). Reasonably the user portal could be modified to be able to upload and send faxes. At the same time there is an established protocol, called t.37, to send faxes via email.
I've delved into Hylafax and others and don't see they are scalable or flexible nor are they active communities to draw support from. Sipx has all the framework to do this with what it already has by building in the functionality into the user portal or by adding t.37 support to it. http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-8645 The original JIRA (above) had suggested 9 items.The core items needed are already implemented. There were a few suggestions that just "didn't matter" (I know, I wrote those). The core IVR items (IVR changes to tell you how many faxes and accessing stored faxes via sipxui) have not been done yet, and when they are scheduled this would be the time to suggest uploading files for sending faxes out or additng t.37 support. Freeswitch is very capable of doing either of these. In any case, a new JIRA is probably warranted and votes would matter. In the meantime, there are several simple, diskless appliances that do this today. Alternately, an ATA with t.38 support can be connected to a fax machine and it will work if the PSTN connection is able to support t.38 also (we do it all the time). If the votes don't accumulate, I don't see how it would make sense to spend the manpower to do it. To some organizations faxes are important, but certainly the volume in most organizations is declining. The dialplan stuff is easy, the portal stuff might be a little more time consuming, and so would the IVR stuff. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:20 PM, m...@grounded.net <m...@grounded.net> wrote: > I believe I saw a thread a while back where someone was asking about sending > faxes. Some searching shows that some have asked but that there are no plans. > > Is this still the case or are others interested in this? Even a shared > outgoing account as a 'group' would be so very welcome and would instantly > eliminate our having to use additional hylafax/avantfax servers just for this > function. It would be way nicer to be able to tell potential customers that > everything can be done from the one system. > > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 sip: tgrazi...@voice.myitdepartment.net Fax: 434.465.6833 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linked-In Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tony-graziano/14/4a6/7a4 Ask about our Internet Fax services! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 sip: helpd...@voice.myitdepartment.net Helpdesk Customers: http://myhelp.myitdepartment.net Blog: http://blog.myitdepartment.net _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/
