I can’t send fax to email with asterisk, I have a Spandsp (spandsp-0.0.2pre23.tar.gz), asterisk-1.2.4 and TDM400p card.asterisk can load rxfax and txfax without any probleme, the configuration in my extensions.conf:
[incoming]
exten => s,1,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk-fax/${CALLERIDNUM}.tif)
exten => s,2,rxfax(${FAXFILE})
exten => s,3,Set(EMAILADDR=my@email.com)
exten => s,4,system(‘mewencode -e ${FAXFILE} | mail -s fax ${EMAILADDR}’)
can somebody help me please?
you don’t need any of this. set your zap configuration to detect faxes on receive. you may need to do Wait(3) to give the driver a chance to detect the incoming fax tone, but then it will automatically transfer to the fax context (at least that all works with asterisk@home)
dswartz,
you need to have a fax extension in the context where the call is coming in that will do something if the fax is detected. In addition, I believe you need spandsp and rxfax if I’m not mistaken if you plan on using Asterisk as the fax machine. (If you were just redirecting to an extension with a live fax machine, you would not need rxfax, I can’t recall now if you would need spandsp or not, would have to look it up.
But - you do need that fax extension in the context where you are handling that incoming call.
p
sorry for being unclear. my only experience is with AAH, and this is all set up automatically. my point was: for that setup, you just enable inbound fax detection and it all just works.
firstly i do that in my extensions.conf but i had the same result no fax and no mail:
extensions.conf file:
[macro-faxreceive]
exten => s,1,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk-fax/${CALLERIDNUM}.tif)
exten => s,2,rxfax(${FAXFILE})
exten => s,3,Set(EMAILADDR=my@email.com)
the fax context:
[fax]
exten => s,1,Macro(faxreceive)
exten => h,1,system(‘mewencode -e ${FAXFILE} | mail -s fax ${EMAILADDR}’)
and this is my debug channel:
Channel: 3
File Descriptor: 22
Span: 1
Extension:
Dialing: no
Context: incoming1
Caller ID:
Calling TON: 0
Caller ID name:
Destroy: 0
InAlarm: 0
Signalling Type: FXS Kewlstart
Radio: 0
Owner: Zap/3-1
Real: Zap/3-1 (Linear)
Callwait:
Threeway:
Confno: -1
Propagated Conference: -1
Real in conference: 0
DSP: yes
Relax DTMF: no
Dialing/CallwaitCAS: 0/0
Default law: ulaw
Fax Handled: no
Pulse phone: no
Echo Cancellation: 128 taps unless TDM bridged, currently ON
Actual Confinfo: Num/0, Mode/0x0000
Actual Confmute: No
Hookstate (FXS only): Offhook
and in the console i don’t show any error
thank you for your help
Try doing an Answer and then a Wait for 3 seconds to give the detection code a chance…
no result with Wait(3) :
[incoming1]
exten => s,1,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk-fax/${CALLERIDNUM}.tif)
exten => s,2,Wait(3)
exten => s,3,rxfax(${FAXFILE})
exten => s,4,Set(EMAILADDR=my@email.com)
exten => s,5,system(‘mewencode -e ${FAXFILE} | mail -s fax ${EMAILADDR}’)
Did you Answer the call?
ok i’ ll try with answer
no result with Answer i had this in console:
– Starting simple switch on ‘Zap/3-1’
– Executing Answer(“Zap/3-1”, “”) in new stack
– Executing Set(“Zap/3-1”, “FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk-fax/039353586.tif”) in new stack
– Executing Wait(“Zap/3-1”, “3”) in new stack
– Executing RxFAX(“Zap/3-1”, “/var/spool/asterisk-fax/039353586.tif”) in new stack
– Executing Set(“Zap/3-1”, "EMAILADDR=my@email.com") in new stack
– Executing System(“Zap/3-1”, “mewencode -e /var/spool/asterisk-fax/039352586.tif | mail -s fax my@email.com”) in new stack
Apr 19 19:01:19 WARNING[7893]: pbx.c:2403 __ast_pbx_run: Timeout, but no rule ‘t’ in context ‘incoming1’
– Hungup ‘Zap/3-1’
beats me, i guess. i have fax detection set ‘faxdetect=incoming’ in the zapata config file and it automatically jumps to the ‘ext-fax’ context (this is generated by AAH, so I don’t know if you even have that, but give that a try?) if so, it might look like:
[ext-fax]
exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,2,Goto(in_fax,1)
exten => in_fax,1,GotoIf($[${FAX_RX} = system]?2:analog_fax,1)
exten => in_fax,2,Macro(faxreceive)
exten => in_fax,3,system(tiff2ps -2eaz -w 8.5 -h 11 ${FAXFILE} | ps2pdf - ${FAX
FILE}.pdf)
exten => in_fax,4,system(mime-construct --to ${EMAILADDR} --subject “Fax from $
{CALLERIDNUM} ${CALLERIDNAME}” --attachment ${CALLERIDNUM}.pdf --type applicati
on/pdf --file ${FAXFILE}.pdf)
exten => in_fax,5,system(rm ${FAXFILE} ${FAXFILE}.pdf)
exten => in_fax,6,Hangup
exten => analog_fax,1,GotoIf($[${FAX_RX} = disabled]?3:2) ;if fax is disabled,
just hang up
exten => analog_fax,2,DBGet(DIAL=DEVICE/${FAX_RX}/dial);
exten => analog_fax,3,Dial(${DIAL},20,d)
exten => analog_fax,4,Hangup
;exten => out_fax,1,wait(7)
exten => out_fax,1,txfax(${TXFAX_NAME}|caller)
exten => out_fax,2,Hangup
exten => h,1,Hangup()
Here is what does it in AAH per dswartz:
[from-pstn-reghours]
exten => s,1,GotoIf($[${FAX_RX} = disabled]?from-pstn-reghours-nofax,s,1:2)
exten => s,2,Answer
exten => s,3,Wait(1)
exten => s,4,SetVar(intype=${INCOMING})
exten => s,5,Cut(intype=intype,-,1)
exten => s,6,GotoIf($[${intype} = EXT]?7:9)
exten => s,7,Wait(3) ;give a chance to detect fax
exten => s,8,Goto(ext-local,${INCOMING:4},1)
exten => s,9,GotoIf($[${intype} = GRP]?10:12)
exten => s,10,Wait(3)
exten => s,11,Goto(ext-group,${INCOMING:4},1)
exten => s,12,GotoIf($[${intype} = QUE]?13:15)
exten => s,13,Wait(3)
exten => s,14,Goto(ext-queues,${INCOMING:4},1)
exten => s,15,Goto(${INCOMING},s,1)
exten => fax,1,Goto(ext-fax,in_fax,1) ; will go here if fax is detected
exten => h,1,HangupNote the “fax,1,Goto(…)” extension I mentioned in my first post. Do you have something like that in the context where the zap call is coming in?
p
Well This is what I have used. Obviously you need spandsp and faxdetect=incoming and i the relevent section a fax extension defined that does a goto to the [fax]
[code][macro-faxreceive]
exten => s,1,SetVar(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk-fax/${UNIQUEID}.tif)
exten => s,2,DBGet(EMAILADDR=extensionemail/${MACRO_EXTEN})
exten => s,3,rxfax(${FAXFILE})
exten => s,4,wait(4)
exten => s,5,Hangup
exten => s,103,SetVar(EMAILADDR=faxmaster@domain.co.uk)
exten => s,104,Goto(3)
;
[fax]
exten => 2400,1,Macro(faxreceive)
exten => 2401,1,Macro(faxreceive)
exten => 2402,1,Macro(faxreceive)
exten => h,1,system(/usr/local/sbin/mailfax ${FAXFILE} ${EMAILADDR} ${CALLERIDNUM})[/code]
The script is
[code]#!/bin/sh
FAXFILE=$1
RECIPIENT=$2
FAXSENDER=$3
ls -al /var/spool/asterisk-fax > /var/spool/asterisk-fax/chkfax.txt
mime-construct --to $RECIPIENT --subject “Fax from $FAXSENDER” --attachment “$FAXFILE” --type application/tif --file “$FAXFILE”[/code]
The email addresses are then stored in the DB and the relevent one is used.
[/quote]
why this line from your CLI:
Starting simple switch on ‘Zap/3-1’
??
Please make sure, the appropiate lines in your zapata.conf looks like this:
overlapdial=yes
and the line
immediate=…
is either set to “no” or commented out !
Your call is timing out, that should be fixed first. Question is, what is timing out there and why ?
I guess you have already this:
faxdetect=in
in your zapata.conf ?
And in your extens.conf
exten=> fax,1,answer
exten=> etc etc etc
PS.:
Please create a testextension, exactly like your fax incoming context, but with a number (like 555) so we can dialin directly not “being a fax”.
Then call this number from outisde WITHOUT faxdetection (thats why we use a fix number).
Do you hear the typical faxtone now ?
I suspect the fax not running/working, thats why there is a timeout.
Dswartz,
Thanks for your help. I don’t even have that, because i don’t use AAH and i want to find a solution only with this version of asterisk if it exist. I have fax detection set ‘faxdetect=incoming’ in the zapata config file.
p_lindheimer,RichardHH
thanks for your help
concerning “fax,1,Goto(…)” extension i have already use it, but no result and in the console i have this in console if i use a fax extension:
– Starting simple switch on ‘Zap/3-1’
== Starting Zap/3-1 at incoming1,s,1 failed so falling back to exten ‘s’
== Starting Zap/3-1 at incoming1,s,1 still failed so falling back to context 'default’
Apr 20 19:45:02 WARNING[10220]: pbx.c:2345 __ast_pbx_run:
Channel ‘Zap/3-1’ sent into invalid extension ‘s’ in context ‘default’, but
no invalid handler
– Hungup ‘Zap/3-1’
– Starting simple switch on 'Zap/3-1’
Apr 20 19:45:07 NOTICE[10223]: chan_zap.c:6063 ss_thread: Got
event 18 (Ring Begin)…
Apr 20 19:45:09 NOTICE[10223]: chan_zap.c:6063 ss_thread: Got
event 2 (Ring/Answered)…
== Starting Zap/3-1 at incoming1,s,1 failed so falling back to exten ‘s’
== Starting Zap/3-1 at incoming1,s,1 still failed so falling back to context 'default’
Apr 20 19:45:09 WARNING[10223]: pbx.c:2345 __ast_pbx_run: Channel ‘Zap/3-1’ sent into invalid extension ‘s’ in context ‘default’, but no invalid handler
– Hungup ‘Zap/3-1’
– Starting simple switch on 'Zap/3-1’
Apr 20 19:45:22 WARNING[10228]: chan_zap.c:6137 ss_thread:
CallerID returned with error on channel ‘Zap/3-1’
== Starting Zap/3-1 at incoming1,s,1 failed so falling back to exten ‘s’
== Starting Zap/3-1 at incoming1,s,1 still failed so falling back to context 'default’
Apr 20 19:45:22 WARNING[10228]: pbx.c:2345 __ast_pbx_run: Channel ‘Zap/3-1’ sent into invalid extension ‘s’ in context ‘default’, but no invalid handler
– Hungup ‘Zap/3-1’
I think we can use this extension (fax) only if we have a T1 interface
with an active PRI attached or multiple X100P cards with POTS lines
attached.
In zapata.conf I have :
immediate=no
busydetect=yes
busycount=8
overlapdial=yes
faxdetect=incoming
signalling=fxs_ks
context=incoming1
channel => 3
ianplain,
thanks for your help, i have already used (i have used the example posted by scott laird) it’s seem like your conf, but always no fax and no email.
Ok lets get back to basics.
With your first example. Is the tiff file created? does asterisk even have permisions to write to the directory ?
Also if you do a show applications is rxfax and txfax there?
Also is the fax sucessfuly sent from the sending machine?
The method I posted works fin on all systems I have set it up on using both IAX and Zap channels
one suggestion - go get nvfaxdetect and try using it in the dial plan. This might help isolate where the issue is since even if you setup the zap channel wrong, proper use of this will still catch the fax and vector off to the fax extension in the context. If it works with nvfaxdetect, you can concentrate on your zappata configuration. If it doesn’t work with it, you can concentrate on what’s up with your dialplan…
just a thought
p
[quote=“RichardHH”]PS.:
Please create a testextension, exactly like your fax incoming context, but with a number (like 555) so we can dialin directly not “being a fax”.
Then call this number from outisde WITHOUT faxdetection (thats why we use a fix number).
Do you hear the typical faxtone now ?
I suspect the fax not running/working, thats why there is a timeout.[/quote]
Can you do this once please, for testing ?
ianplain,
the fax was not sent from the sending machine it is for that the tiff file was not created even if asterisk have permissions to write to the directory.
if i do a show applications rxfax and txfax are here.
RichardHH,
Please create a testextension, exactly like your fax incoming context, but with a number (like 555) so we can dialin directly not “being a fax”.
Then call this number from outisde WITHOUT faxdetection (thats why we use a fix number).
I do that, i can hear the typical faxtone. I 'm sure that the fax running/working because i can send and receive with this fax.