[Freeswitch-users] Detecting and blocking fax calls

[Anthony Minessale]

If you really are concerned, transfer to an ivr that says, if you are not a
fax press 1, waits 10 sec then hangs up.
Then the one time in a thousand when its a false detection, they can
recover themselves.



On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Ali Pey <alipey at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can use something like this:
>
> <action application="set" data="execute_on_answer=spandsp_start_fax_detect
> transfer 'fax XML default' 5"/>
>
> The chances are that some faxes won't get detected but I have never heard
> that regular phone calls would go to fax.
>
> More details are here:
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_spandsp
>
> Regards,
> Ali Pey
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Everyday User <everydayuser11 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> We receive an inordinate amount of spam fax calls to FreeSwitch that we
>> do not need to handle for any reason. I came across this method,
>> https://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_fax_detect, to
>> hopefully detect and drop these calls. Is there any danger of this method
>> mistaking any live calls and dropping those on accident or is there a
>> better method to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.
>>
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