Re: [hylafax-users] Urgent: How to get extra dialed number

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Duffy wrote:

> Lee Howard wrote:
>
> > Well, you could just have your fax DID enter into a context with all 
> > of the employee fax extensions listed... then ${EXTEN} becomes the 
> > employee fax extension.  Of course, you'd need to pass that on to 
> > your modem.
>
> It seems, off the top of my head, to be quite feasible to pass a 
> message (via updating a file on-disk, most likely) to say "route next 
> call on <devid> to <address>", and have faxrcvd honor that.


You *can* pass routing digits from Asterisk to the modem(s) without 
needing this kind of file-checking thing going on.  Look for 
SHIELDED_DTMF in the archives (assuming your fax modem isn't DID-capable).

> Agreed, it will be inconvenient for some senders -- but they can just 
> send faxes without any extension-based routing and have them come out 
> in a commonly-accessible area.
>
> (Now, there's a far-future TODO where I'll *need* routing info to be 
> retrievable from faxes -- but at this point I'm leaning towards using 
> PDF417 barcodes for that, so long as the folks on the other end agree).


AND, the SHEILDED_DTMF information will get stored into the TIFF and 
should be displayed in the received fax notification message.

Lee.


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