asterisk users - Jun 2003 - Question for someone running hylafax off *.

Hi,

I am setting up a hylafax server. From what I've read so far, hylafax
supports CID numbers and names but currently does not support DID. I assume
I can do something like this...

[40faxDIDs]
exten => _87[5-8]X,1,SetVar(CALLERIDNAME=${EXTEN})
exten => _87[5-8]X,2,Dial(Zap/g${hylafaxMODEMGROUP})

...and use the CIDName variable in hylafax to route the faxes to the
appropriate destination.

My question is this, is anyone doing something like this, and if so, what is
the best way to accomplish the routing.

Thanks,

John


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I think the easiest way is like this:

exten => 124,1,SetCIDName(jmcdonald)
exten => 124,2,Dial(${FAX})
exten => 125,1,SetCIDName(bsmith)
exten => 125,2,Dial(${FAX})

Then in your hylafax FaxDispatch file put

SENDTO=${CIDNAME}@mydomain.com

Remember to set up your hylafax config file with the right pattern-match
strings

CIDNumber: "CALLER NUMBER: " # pattern string for phone number info
CIDName:   "CALLER NAME: "   # pattern string for identity info

for whatever your modem gives you for the caller ID strings. You have to
hard-code extensions to route to usernames anyway, so I figure it's as easy
to do that in extensions.conf as anywhere else. However, if you want to pass
CIDNumber instead of CIDName through, you can do it with

exten => 124,1,SetCallerID(${EXTEN})

in extensions.conf and

case "$CIDNUMBER" in
435*)        SENDTO=lee; FILETYPE=pdf;; # all faxes from area code 435
5059627777)  SENDTO=amy; FILETYPE=tif;; # Amy wants faxes in TIFF
esac

in FaxDispatch.

Contact me off-list if you want more details.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of John Harragin
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:03 PM
> To: Asterisk
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Question for someone running hylafax off *.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am setting up a hylafax server. From what I've read so far, hylafax
> supports CID numbers and names but currently does not support
> DID. I assume
> I can do something like this...
>
> [40faxDIDs]
> exten => _87[5-8]X,1,SetVar(CALLERIDNAME=${EXTEN})
> exten => _87[5-8]X,2,Dial(Zap/g${hylafaxMODEMGROUP})
>
> ...and use the CIDName variable in hylafax to route the faxes to the
> appropriate destination.
>
> My question is this, is anyone doing something like this, and if
> so, what is
> the best way to accomplish the routing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
> This e-mail was scanned and found clean by Monroe-Woodbury CSD Antivirus.
>
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