[iaxmodem-users] Trixbox->IaxModem->Hylafax

[Steve G. <tec...@pe...>]

Hello,

First of all, I want to thank everyone involved with writing this 
software. I have managed to get incoming and outgoing faxing working - 
To and from the desktop and I have yet to see an incoming fax get 
dropped. IaxModem 1.14 works even better than previous versions! (All my 
faxing comes through at 9600 now!) So kudos Lee.

I was wondering if anyone else has set up faxing exclusively in Trixbox 
(without going into the asterisk dialplan). The way I did this is the 
following:

In the inbound routes I have set the 'Fax Extenstion' to a "fake"  IAX 
device. This fake device then has the following in the Dial command:

IAX2/9001/name - where 9001 is the extension of the 'real' IAX device 
and name is the name of the user to receive the fax. The name gets 
passed in as $CALLID4 when I do this. I do things this way so that I 
don't need a seperate instance of IAXmodem running for each user on the 
system.

So this works fairly well. I can setup a case statement to look for the 
name in $CALLID4 in FaxDispatch and email the fax off correctly to its 
intended recipient. It is however fairly clunky and rather hard to 
maintain as I add more and more users. I will end up needing a fake 
device for each additional fax user in the system.

What I'm wondering is whether anyone knows how to setup trixbox so that 
the field "Fax Email" on the inbound routes page gets passed as $CALLID4 
instead. I think this would allow me to get rid of the pseudo devices 
and have one simple line in FaxDispatch that simply sends the fax to 
whatever$CALLID4 is set to. I don't know wether this is possible without 
extensive change to the Trixbox dial plan or not.

Regardless - I'm very happy with the current setup and for now it works 
beautifully. Eventually though, this setup needs to be configurable by 
someone with no command line experience (through the web portal only) 
and that's what I'm shooting for.

I'm sorry if this is being posted to the wrong list, it's not really an 
Iaxmodem question at all, I know, but I haven't had much luck in the 
trixbox forum. I thought that maybe someone else has done something 
along these lines on here

Again, thanks for the excellent software!