asterisk users - Mar 2007 - Another Faxing Question

This probably came up before, but I have a faxing question for everyone.

I have a simple extension setup to use rxfax to receive faxes sent to
asterisk. It is:

exten => s,1,Answer()
exten => s,n,AbsoluteTimeout(300)
exten =>
s,n,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${ARG1}_${CALLERIDNUM}_${UNIQUEID}.tif)
exten => s,n,rxfax(${FAXFILE})
exten => s,n,System(/usr/bin/mailfax "${ARG1}"
"${FAXFILE}" "${ARG2}")
exten => s,n,Hangup()
exten => T,1,Hangup()

I read that you had to put a AbsoluteTimeout in there, or it might not
hang up. My questions then are... why wouldn't it hang up without the
timeout, and what if the fax really is that large? We sometimes get
faxes over 150 pages.

Rob

In my (limited) experience with rxfax, it has issues with large faxes. I
soon gave up on rxfax and switched to hylafax (which works much better).
Check the wiki for installation instructions. (And hylafax will
correctly hangup when the fax has completed/failed/whatever.)

Wes Baehr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Rob Schall
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:04 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Another Faxing Question
> 
> This probably came up before, but I have a faxing question for
everyone.
> 
> I have a simple extension setup to use rxfax to receive faxes sent to
> asterisk. It is:
> 
> exten => s,1,Answer()
> exten => s,n,AbsoluteTimeout(300)
> exten =>
>
s,n,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${ARG1}_${CALLERIDNUM}_${UNIQUEI
D}
> .tif)
> exten => s,n,rxfax(${FAXFILE})
> exten => s,n,System(/usr/bin/mailfax "${ARG1}"
"${FAXFILE}" "${ARG2}")
> exten => s,n,Hangup()
> exten => T,1,Hangup()
> 
> I read that you had to put a AbsoluteTimeout in there, or it might not
> hang up. My questions then are... why wouldn't it hang up without the
> timeout, and what if the fax really is that large? We sometimes get
> faxes over 150 pages.
> 
> Rob
> 
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