On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Joseph L. Casale <JCasale@activenetwerx.com> wrote:
>> Am I correct in presuming that Freeswitch will answer a fax from a local zap based user
>> just like it does from an FXO port connected to a POTS line? What I hope to do here is
>> catch any call made from that extension (the zap based fax machine/user) and push its
>> call into the fax module.
>
> Yes, when a device (phone/fax/modem/whatever) is plugged into the FXS it gets dialtone
> and dials. Whatever it dials is put into ${destination_number} just like any SIP phone that
> dials. This extension looks ok. Try it out and let us know how it goes.
> -MC

Michael,
It worked well, there was however a humorous moment: I was testing with my own shell script
that simply emailed me directly to my postfix gateway, my exchange server and mua understood the
uuencoded attachment so once it started working I modified the script to send to our fax service.

Well they didn't understand uuencode so the attachment, a single page tiff, got faxed as 23 pages
of binary :) I used mutt with a redirection to a specific muttrc which understands mime encoding
which should work everywhere...

Thanks for the help, you've made an office full of people happy...
Thanks for letting us know that everything worked! I'm glad we didn't have to honor Tony's triple-your-money-back guarantee. :)
-MC