asterisk users - Jun 2015 - asterisk email to fax

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:29:50PM +0100, A J Stiles
wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015, tux john wrote:
> > i am using asterisk 11.16 in my home office and i am using fax to
email
> > with it.
> [...]
> 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.
Since the O.P. said he's using it for his home office, I think he'll
be able to control user expectations :-)

--
Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u

> 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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I hope his mother in law doesn't live with him. That's a support issue
for sure.


From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces
at 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
> 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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