Asterisk Fax

AstFax provides an outgoing email to fax gateway for the Asterisk PBX package. Incoming fax to email can also be configured so your Asterisk server can act as both an outgoing and incoming fax server. SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE: Support open source!

Features

• Fast, and efficient; Written in C
• Processes large email messages quickly with the EPS library
• Easy to use, simply send an email to the fax number
• Configures easily with Asterisk, and most Unix-based MTAs

Required Open Source Software

• Asterisk Open Source PBX.
• SpanDSP is a library of DSP functions for telephony including software FAX.
• EPS is a library of email parsing functions.

Source code

• Download the source astfax-1.0.tar.gz released: Tue Feb 8 09:03:27 CST 2005

Documentation

• README
• Installation Instructions
• ChangeLog

astfax allows you to create an email to fax gateway. It processes incoming emails with attached fax images, and sends them outbound via the txfax module. Asterisk's outgoing call queue is used to initiate the fax call and transfer. The call file generated for the outgoing call queue is in template form, and can easily be updated for any system's configuration. We currently use astfax with qmail, asterisk, spandsp, and eps to create an email/fax gateway.