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atux at null.net
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 Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 1:15 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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hello everyone.
i am using asterisk 11.16 in my home office and i am using fax to email with it. i am quite happy with the way it works, no problems at all. when a fax arrives in a particular DID then the system sends it with mailutils to my email address as pdf. there is not any email address setup in the system, simply mailutils.
i would like to add email to fax functionality to the system. could someone point me to the right direction to see how please? |
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ecc at cmu.edu
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:10 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 08:15:06AM +0200, tux john wrote:
| Quote: | i would like to add email to fax functionality to the system. could someone
point me to the right direction to see how please?
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I don't have a general solution, since I haven't needed to send faxes
recently. But I did set up my dialplan so that I could test that it
works.
I used this:
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;; For outgoing faxes
FAX_NAME = My Company Name
FAX_NUMBER = My Phone Number
FAX_FILE = /tmp/fax.tiff
[services]
...
exten => sendfax,1,Verbose(3,Sending fax)
same => n,Set(FAXOPT(headerinfo)=${FAX_NAME})
same => n,Set(FAXOPT(localstationid)=${FAX_NUMBER})
same => n,SendFax(${FAX_FILE})
same => n,Verbose(3,Pages: ${FAXOPT(pages)} Status: ${FAXOPT(status)})
same => n,System(rm ${FAX_FILE})
same => n,Hangup()
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To "dial" the sendfax extension, I created a call file manually that
looked like this:
Channel: DAHDI/g0/1-800-123-4567
Context: services
Extension: sendfax
In an automated system, you'd probably want to use the manager API,
but you could also generated call files from scripts. Then I placed
the fax file in /tmp/fax.tiff and the call file in
/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ and Asterisk sent off the fax. There
are some free fax echo numbers out there that are useful when
debugging.
If I wanted to drive this automatically from email, I would probably
just use procmail and some scripts. Ghostscript produces the right
kind of image file if you use "-sDEVICE=tiffg4". You'd have to define
some syntax for specifying the outgoing number and cover page info in
the email body, and extract the MIME attachment for the document from
the email.
Hope this helps.
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markus_weiler at mailw...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:23 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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Hi Eric,
This is not really easy. Especially the Mail2Tiff Conversion is tricky
(lots of different MIME/File formats).
When you have the correct tiff file the rest ist easy. Try to narrow it
down to an empty Mail Body using (one) PDF attachment.
We used a self written Java app to prepare the files.
Markus
Am 25.06.2015 um 18:09 schrieb Eric Cooper:
| Quote: | On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 08:15:06AM +0200, tux john wrote:
| Quote: | i would like to add email to fax functionality to the system. could someone
point me to the right direction to see how please?
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I don't have a general solution, since I haven't needed to send faxes
recently. But I did set up my dialplan so that I could test that it
works.
I used this:
----
;; For outgoing faxes
FAX_NAME = My Company Name
FAX_NUMBER = My Phone Number
FAX_FILE = /tmp/fax.tiff
[services]
...
exten => sendfax,1,Verbose(3,Sending fax)
same => n,Set(FAXOPT(headerinfo)=${FAX_NAME})
same => n,Set(FAXOPT(localstationid)=${FAX_NUMBER})
same => n,SendFax(${FAX_FILE})
same => n,Verbose(3,Pages: ${FAXOPT(pages)} Status: ${FAXOPT(status)})
same => n,System(rm ${FAX_FILE})
same => n,Hangup()
----
To "dial" the sendfax extension, I created a call file manually that
looked like this:
Channel: DAHDI/g0/1-800-123-4567
Context: services
Extension: sendfax
In an automated system, you'd probably want to use the manager API,
but you could also generated call files from scripts. Then I placed
the fax file in /tmp/fax.tiff and the call file in
/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ and Asterisk sent off the fax. There
are some free fax echo numbers out there that are useful when
debugging.
If I wanted to drive this automatically from email, I would probably
just use procmail and some scripts. Ghostscript produces the right
kind of image file if you use "-sDEVICE=tiffg4". You'd have to define
some syntax for specifying the outgoing number and cover page info in
the email body, and extract the MIME attachment for the document from
the email.
Hope this helps.
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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asterisk_list at earth...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:30 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015, tux john wrote:
| Quote: | hello everyone.
i am using asterisk 11.16 in my home office and i am using fax to email
with it. i am quite happy with the way it works, no problems at all. when
a fax arrives in a particular DID then the system sends it with mailutils
to my email address as pdf. there is not any email address setup in the
system, simply mailutils.
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| Quote: | i would like to add email to fax functionality to the system. could someone
point me to the right direction to see how please?
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Beware! This is an exercise fraught with pitfalls for the unwary. Your users
will expect to be able to e-mail any proprietary format and have it appear on
the remote fax machine exactly as though it would on their own printer; and
will blame you when it doesn't work because nothing else can read the files
produced by an ancient piece of closed-source software that worked only with
one particular obsolete version of Windows.
The correct procedure if some pointy-haired type asks you to do this, is to
run away as fast as possible.
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Note: Originating address only accepts e-mail from list! If replying off-
list, change address to asterisk1list at earthshod dot co dot uk .
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ecc at cmu.edu
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:57 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:29:50PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote:
| Quote: | On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015, tux john wrote:
| Quote: | i am using asterisk 11.16 in my home office and i am using fax to email
with it.
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[...]
Beware! This is an exercise fraught with pitfalls for the unwary. Your users
will expect to be able to e-mail any proprietary format and have it appear on
the remote fax machine exactly as though it would on their own printer; and
will blame you when it doesn't work because nothing else can read the files
produced by an ancient piece of closed-source software that worked only with
one particular obsolete version of Windows.
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Since the O.P. said he's using it for his home office, I think he'll
be able to control user expectations 
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kevin.larsen at pionee...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:50 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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| Quote: | Since the O.P. said he's using it for his home office, I think he'll
be able to control user expectations
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I provide tech support to my parents on all their computers. The amount of annoyance I have dealt with in the last few months over the fact that a recipe program and various card making programs designed for Windows 3.1/95 won't run on my mom's Windows 7 64 bit computer tells me you are not as right as you think you are. |
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RyanT at OscarWinski.com
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:52 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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I hope his mother in law doesn’t live with him. That’s a support issue for sure.
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Larsen
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:50 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax
| Quote: | Since the O.P. said he's using it for his home office, I think he'll
be able to control user expectations
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I provide tech support to my parents on all their computers. The amount of annoyance I have dealt with in the last few months over the fact that a recipe program and various card making programs designed for Windows 3.1/95 won't run on my mom's Windows 7 64 bit computer tells me you are not as right as you think you are. |
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tiago.geada at gmail.com
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:28 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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we use a PHP web page, that takes a few formats, PDF being the most common, anc convert it to TIFF.
If conversion succeeds we allow to download the TIFF file as a preview. Then the user confirms and the PHP places a .call file in asterisk spool
On 25 June 2015 at 19:51, Ryan, Travis <RyanT@oscarwinski.com (RyanT@oscarwinski.com)> wrote:
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I hope his mother in law doesn’t live with him. That’s a support issue for sure.
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com (asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com) [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com (asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com)] On Behalf Of Kevin Larsen
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:50 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax
| Quote: | Since the O.P. said he's using it for his home office, I think he'll
be able to control user expectations
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I provide tech support to my parents on all their computers. The amount of annoyance I have dealt with in the last few months over the fact that a recipe program and various card making programs designed for Windows 3.1/95 won't run on my mom's Windows 7 64 bit computer tells me you are not as right as you think you are.
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atux at null.net
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:46 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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being honest with i have been lost on what to do.
all i want is sent from my email a pdf file and then the server will sent it as fax.
what settings do i have to do regarding emailing to the server? what other settings do i have to do?
is there a guide on that?
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 at 7:28 PM From: "Tiago Geada" <tiago.geada@gmail.com> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax
we use a PHP web page, that takes a few formats, PDF being the most common, anc convert it to TIFF.
If conversion succeeds we allow to download the TIFF file as a preview. Then the user confirms and the PHP places a .call file in asterisk spool
On 25 June 2015 at 19:51, Ryan, Travis <[url=RyanT@oscarwinski.com]RyanT@oscarwinski.com[/url]> wrote: | Quote: |
I hope his mother in law doesn’t live with him. That’s a support issue for sure.
From: [url=asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com[/url] [mailto:[url=asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com[/url]] On Behalf Of Kevin Larsen Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:50 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax
| Quote: | Since the O.P. said he's using it for his home office, I think he'll > be able to control user expectations I provide tech support to my parents on all their computers. The amount of annoyance I have dealt with in the last few months over the fact that a recipe program and various card making programs designed for Windows 3.1/95 won't run on my mom's Windows 7 64 bit computer tells me you are not as right as you think you are.
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webaccounts173 at jgoe...
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 7:03 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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| Quote: | being honest with i have been lost on what to do.
all i want is sent from my email a pdf file and then the server will sent it as fax.
what settings do i have to do regarding emailing to the server? what other settings do i have to do?
is there a guide on that?
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 at 7:28 PM
From: "Tiago Geada" <tiago.geada@gmail.com> (tiago.geada@gmail.com)
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> (asterisk-users@lists.digium.com)
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax
we use a PHP web page, that takes a few formats, PDF being the most common, anc convert it to TIFF.
If conversion succeeds we allow to download the TIFF file as a preview. Then the user confirms and the PHP places a .call file in asterisk spool
On 25 June 2015 at 19:51, Ryan, Travis <[url=RyanT@oscarwinski.com]RyanT@oscarwinski.com[/url]> wrote: | Quote: |
I hope his mother in law doesn’t live with him. That’s a support issue for sure.
From: [url=asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com[/url] [mailto:[url=asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com[/url]] On Behalf Of Kevin Larsen
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:50 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax
| Quote: | Since the O.P. said he's using it for his home office, I think he'll
be able to control user expectations
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I provide tech support to my parents on all their computers. The amount of annoyance I have dealt with in the last few months over the fact that a recipe program and various card making programs designed for Windows 3.1/95 won't run on my mom's Windows 7 64 bit computer tells me you are not as right as you think you are.
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This is not a question of settings. You must decide yourself what to do and there are various options. Asterisk is only responsible for the transport.
You need to look at the following tasks:
- get the file or files into the asterisk box
- convert to a faxable tiff format
- generate a call file and put the tiff file where it belongs (but there are other methods)
- get fax report
Of course, at first you must configure Asterisk to accept facsimiles, which depends on which technologies you need. But everything is nicely documented.
jg |
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atux at null.net
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 7:51 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax |
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At the moment it receives fax and sends it as pdf to my email.
i have followed this tutorial http://the-asterisk-book.com/1.6/faxserver-mit-iaxmodem-und-hylafax.html
i have setup postfix to send using my gmail account.
how do i do the reverse to send from my email?
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 at 3:02 PM From: jg <webaccounts173@jgoettgens.de> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax
| Quote: | being honest with i have been lost on what to do.
all i want is sent from my email a pdf file and then the server will sent it as fax.
what settings do i have to do regarding emailing to the server? what other settings do i have to do?
is there a guide on that?
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 at 7:28 PM From: "Tiago Geada" [url=tiago.geada@gmail.com]<tiago.geada@gmail.com>[/url] To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" [url=asterisk-users@lists.digium.com]<asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>[/url] Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax
we use a PHP web page, that takes a few formats, PDF being the most common, anc convert it to TIFF.
If conversion succeeds we allow to download the TIFF file as a preview. Then the user confirms and the PHP places a .call file in asterisk spool
On 25 June 2015 at 19:51, Ryan, Travis <RyanT@oscarwinski.com> wrote: | Quote: |
I hope his mother in law doesn’t live with him. That’s a support issue for sure.
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Larsen Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:50 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk email to fax
| Quote: | Since the O.P. said he's using it for his home office, I think he'll > be able to control user expectations I provide tech support to my parents on all their computers. The amount of annoyance I have dealt with in the last few months over the fact that a recipe program and various card making programs designed for Windows 3.1/95 won't run on my mom's Windows 7 64 bit computer tells me you are not as right as you think you are.
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This is not a question of settings. You must decide yourself what to do and there are various options. Asterisk is only responsible for the transport. You need to look at the following tasks: - get the file or files into the asterisk box - convert to a faxable tiff format - generate a call file and put the tiff file where it belongs (but there are other methods) - get fax report Of course, at first you must configure Asterisk to accept facsimiles, which depends on which technologies you need. But everything is nicely documented. jg -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users |
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