Receiving faxes
The preceding recipe described the process of sending a fax. This recipe will describe the process of receiving a fax.
Getting ready
In its simplest format, receiving a fax requires only that you route an incoming call to an extension that then executes the rxfax dialplan application. As with the previous recipe, we can use our FreeSWITCH server to be both the sender and receiver of the fax. For our test we will use the same file we used in the Sending faxes recipe: /tmp/txfax-sample.tiff.
How to do it...
Execute these steps to do a simple fax transmission and reception:
Launch
fs_cli.Execute this command:
originate loopback/9178 &txfax(/tmp/txfax-sample.tiff)
Watch the console and eventually the fax transmission should successfully finish.
How it works...
We use the fax_receive extension in the default dialplan to receive the fax transmission. This extension is quite simple:
<extension name="fax_receive"> <condition field="destination_number" expression="^9178$...
