This script allows you to send faxes through your Asterisk box. It converts an email with either a PDF or TIFF attachment to an email with a right TIFF format, and then passes it to Asterisk, which does the fax delivery.

Based on email2fax 1.2, originally written by Tomasz Chmielewski (http://wpkg.org/email2fax/), sidfax uses pdftops (xpdf) instead of pdf2ps (gs).

Sidfax was tested on VoiperOPEN 2.2.5 by SpheraIT.it based on CentOS 4.4 and Asterisk 1.4.42.

• munpack tool: to decode MIME format mail messages If it doesn't work for you, try to get a binary for your system at http://fr2.rpmfind.net (or any other rpm database). You can also download mpack/munpack sources from ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/mpack/
• gs: to convert ps2tiff.
• pdftops: xpdf 3.03 to convert pdf to ps http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
• fetchmail: to download email from your mailserver
• procmail: to process email messages trough email2fax
• .fetchmailrc: configuration file for fetchmail.
• .procmailrc: configuration file for procmail.
• digium fax application (http://www.digium.org) or soft-switch spandsp (http://www.soft-switch.org)

• install munpack tool

• install gs

• install xpdf >= 3.03

• install fetchmail

• install procmail

• find asterisk home directory: echo ~asterisk

• copy .fetchmailrc and .procmailrc to your homedirectory

• check .fetchmailrc and .procmailrc configuration

• edit configuration variables in email2fax

• copy email2fax in your bin directory eg: /usr/local/bin/

• add crontab line (crontab -e) to your local user to schedule fetchmail:

  eg, every minute: * * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /var/lib/asterisk/.fetchmailrc

  every 5 minutes: */5 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /var/lib/asterisk/.fetchmailrc

• check your asterisk extensions.conf

• enjoy

Q: xpdf: error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A: yum install xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386

Pasquale 'sid' Fiorillo < info @ pasqualefiorillo . it > 2013

Tomasz Chmielewski < tch @ wpkg . org > 2005-2006