[Freeswitch-users] Detecting and blocking fax calls

[Anthony Minessale]

You can "reload mod_spandsp" and look for the app getting registered.

Unless you have an ancient version, it should be there.




On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Everyday User <everydayuser11 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the response.  I attempted to use spandsp_start_fax_detect,
> but am receiving an "Invalid Application spandsp_start_fax_detect"
> outputted in the log file.  I see the module spandsp being loaded properly.
>  Is there something else I need in order to use that command?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 7:41 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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