[Freeswitch-users] Hylafax server emulation

[Peter Steinbach]

I would also love this approach. That way it may be easy to link an
outgoing fax number and local station/header info to an extension.

Best regards
Peter

Kristian Kielhofner schrieb:
> Steve,
>
>   Very cool (and I'm very interested).
>
>   What about using the existing user directory (perhaps with
> additional params) for the accounts and the FreeSWITCH core DB
> (whether SQLite or ODBC) for the jobs, etc?
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> It has always been clear that a HylaFAX compatible FAX job submission
>> server would add considerably to the value of the FAX facilities in
>> Asterisk and Freeswitch, but somehow it hasn't happened until now. I
>> recently found that in 2005 someone produced something fairly basic for
>> Asterisk in Perl, but it doesn't seem to have been well publicised, and
>> it looks like development stalled long ago.
>>
>> I now have the skeleton of HylaFAX compatible FAX job submission server,
>> in C, working. It accepts FAX submissions from sendfax and a couple of
>> the windows HylaFAX clients, though it needs a lot more polishing. Now I
>> need to look at the best thing to do on the Freeswitch side. I aim to
>> make the server maintain its own database of FAX jobs. It will attach to
>> Freeswitch, by ESL; push the jobs through FS; deal with scheduling,
>> retries, etc; and report the final result to the user, just as HylaFAX
>> does. The thing I am rather unsure about is the best way to handle the
>> accounts used to accept FAX jobs? Should I maintain a separate database
>> of FAX accounts, or hook into an existing database? I would welcome
>> suggestions for what would be the most useful approach.
>>
>> Steve
>>
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