email2fax 1.2 review (linux)

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License: GPL (GNU General Public License)
OS: Linux
File size: 43K
Developer: Tomasz Chmielewski      
Price: $0.00
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email2fax 1.2 is fax software developed by Tomasz Chmielewski.
email2fax is a bash script that allows you to send a fax through your Asterisk PBX.

email2fax accepts emails with a PDF or a TIFF attachment, and faxes them through Asterisk to a number specified in a subject field of the email.

Here are some key features of "email2fax":

  • it expects to find a fax number in a subject field,
  • it expects to find one PDF or one TIFF attachment,
  • if these conditions are met, it converts an attachment to the right format, and passes it to Asterisk, and instructs it to send it to a specified number.

    As mail2fax wasn't really user friendly (it didn't support PDF attachments; TIFF attachments had to be in a special format), I decidet to write my own implementation.

    Currently, email2fax depends on AstFax - that means, a processed attachment (which needs to have a right format) is passed to AstFax, which then passes it to Asterisk.

    Usage:

    - make sure your Asterisk box can receive faxes - Spandsp has to be set up correctly,
    - download and extract email2fax package, don't forget about mpack and munpack, if you don't have them in the system (they are in the package)
    - compose a sample message - attach a PDF file, and put a fax number in the subject field - save it on a disk as message.eml; copy it to your Asterisk box
    - try to send your first fax from the command line:
    cat message.eml | sudo -u asterisk email2fax --debug
    - if it worked, congratulations, if not, make sure Spandsp is set up correctly (i.e., you are able to receive faxes), consult /var/log/asterisk/faxlog file, connect to asterisk console (sudo -u asterisk asterisk -crvvvvv), etc.
    - if everything works, set up a .procmailrc for the asterisk user:

    :0fw
    | /var/lib/asterisk/m2f/email2fax

    and try to send this same email directly to asterisk@yourasteriskbox

    What's New in This Release:
  • Handling multi-page TIFF files was fixed.
  • All *.call files should now have random names.
    email2fax 1.2 supports english interface languages and works with Linux.

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