[Freeswitch-users] Hylafax server emulation

[Steve Underwood]

Wow. That's one of the most bizarre solutions I've seen in a long time. :-\

Steve

On 04/06/2011 01:58 PM, Pablo Hernan Saro wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> I'm not sure if the following will work. Let's say that you have a SIP 
> trunk service configured in a FS box for interconnection with the 
> PSTN. To avoid individual analog fax machines (reduce hardware costs 
> and attached maintenance costs) and take advantage of fax server 
> capabilities, a solution would be install HylaFAX with t38modem built 
> with OPAL support (this enables routing modems to SIP URIs) 
> sending/receiving calls to/from FS via SIP (configure your dialplan 
> for enabling t38 at FS side). That way you get the best from HylaFAX 
> (jub submission, scheduling, retrying, reporting and other facilities) 
> and FS (dealing with SIP trunk service providers, cdr, call routing) 
> at the same time.
> End users can interact with HylaFAX using compatible windows clients, 
> email interface or web interface. A very good idea would be link 
> HylaFAX accounts to FS directory (connect HylaFAX to FS db may be?).
> My two cents...
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Kristian Kielhofner <kris at kriskinc.com 
> <mailto:kris at kriskinc.com>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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
>     >
>