asterisk users - May 2004 - [OT] spandsp hylafax asterisk and confusion

This really only seems practical in a corporate environment however, I would
suggest decoupling the creation of faxable material from the act of
transmitting it. 

First use CUPS/Samba to create a 'print to PDF' printer
(http://www.google.ca/search?q=samba+pdf+printer)
Second use an LDAP to look up to return the email address of the submitter
of the job and send them the resulting PDF (perhaps
http://cups-mailto.sourceforge.net/).
Finally, use a SMTP to Fax gateway to actually send the PDF as a fax Ie.
recipient@3125551212.fax
(http://www.google.ca/search?q=postfix+gateway+hylafax)

Now, when Hylafax is able to use SpanDSP/Asterisk as a virtual modem bank
(<grin>), voila! A very scalable OS independant, albeit two step,
enterprise
fax system.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Underwood [mailto:steveu@coppice.org]
Sent: May 27, 2004 6:32 AM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp hylafax asterisk and confusion


Hi Terry,

People are doing this kind of thing, but I am not. I don't know quite 
how they do it. Hopefully someone will pipe in with a wonderful solution :-)

Regards,
Steve


Terry Goodwin wrote:
>Damn! :-(
>
>Now that I have spandsp working on my * I was going to try and get it
>working with hylafax.
>
>Is there any other means of faxing from the desktop (windows PC) via
>asterisk?
>
>The solution needs to be "user friendly".  I like the solution
that
>allows the user to "print" from an application (word, notepad,
browser,
>terminal session, etc) to a fax driver which in turn connects to the *
>server for transmission.  A bonus would be that the faxing application
>kept a "directory" of the numbers the user faxed to for easy
repeat
>faxing.
>
>Any solutions out there like this?
>
>Respectfully
>Terry
>
>