On Monday, April 22, 2013 19:30 CEST, Peter Fraser <p...@thinkage.ca> wrote: > Several years ago I put an OpenBSD system in as a firewall and mail server at > a small charity that I volunteer at (kwaccessablility.ca) > that fixed nearly all the problems that they had with viruses, spam etc. > > Last year I talked them in to switching to VOIP (on the OpenBSD server using > Asterisk). Their phone costs dropped from over $250 > per month to less than $30 per month (I used the service from unlimitel.ca). > The change is costs per month made up for the costs > of the new telephone equipment within the year. > > Nearly all their communication that was done by fax is now done by email, > except for one organization. That organization which is > run by the city supplies transportation for physically handicapped. That > organization is insisting on faxes. They will not take email. > The charity currently has an analog fax just for the purpose of arranging > transportation, and that line is costing over $60 per month. > > I looked at email to fax services, but I believe those queue the faxes up and > send them as time is available. The charity and > the transportation organization need immediate sending and receiving. They > carry out a conversation with hand written > notes (requiring the charity to type the responses would not be a problem). > > Asterisk has a fax service, so I thought I could use that. But the Asterisk > fax sending service requires TIFF in a directory > and receiving service puts a TIFF file in a directory. > > The charity operates in a Windows environment. To the problem is: how does a > person (probably a volunteer) > on a Windows machine put a TIFF file into a directory on an OpenBSD, and in > addition send the information > as to where send the fax and get back a status on success or failure of > sending a fax. > > I don't think receiving the fax will be that much of a problem; it should be > easy to take the fax out the directory > and send it as an email to a group mailbox. > > What I don't have is a good to solution for is how the person sitting at the > Windows machine is to send a fax. > There are some commercial solutions for Linux, but I have no idea if they > operate OpenBSD. > The commercial solutions are generally of the format that an email gets sent > and fax is extracted from the text of the message. > > I would like to know if anyone has done something similar or any good > suggestions on what I should do to > get faxing to work >
I haven't had a need for FAX yet, but maybe give hylafax together with iaxmodem a try. Both are in ports. Or maybe read up here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+fax cheers, Sebastian
