asterisk users - Apr 2005 - fax detect/transfer problem solved

This took me forever to figure out.  I could not get asterisk to detect
inbound fax calls from my SIP provider.  Voice calls would go through my 
dialplan fine.  With a fax call, I'd see the call in the log, asterisk would
answer it, and then it would mysteriously drop.  I went through everything 
I could possibly think of.

Turns out my SIP provider (race.com) has an E-Fax feature that detects and
intercepts fax calls and stores them on their server (or e-mails them out to
wherever you want).  So after asterisk answers, race.com detects a fax, 
redirects the call to their fax receiver, and drops the call to my asterisk 
box.

Trying to figure out now if there's any way to disable that feature with 
them.  Their control panel portal doesn't seem to offer any way to disable
it.

Just thought I'd post my discovery here in case anyone else is tearing their
hair out over this :)

-j

I have had issues with using * in Realtime for dialplan, voicemail,
sip_buddies, sipfriends, etc... sip this and that.

The problem that I have is the VMI doesn't work on my Sipura ata's.. I
have a 1001, 2000, and 3000.

The VMI only works when I configure the sip registration in the sip.conf
file.
(i.e. mailbox=xxxx).

In the database (mysql) - i have also set the mailbox = xxxx and the phone
never gets a VMI.

Anyone else have this problem...

I have the Sipuras set up for VMI when New VM arrives. The VM Available
setting drives me nutz when it short rings the phone every 30 min on new
VM.

Thanks...