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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Description and Use of the Most Well-known FreePBX Modules
Addon Market Module
Asterisk Essential Commands
Asterisk Gateway Interface Programming
Helpful Linux Commands
Index

Sending a fax from Elastix's WebGUI


Elastix comes with a WebGUI that is very helpful for sending faxes in cases where users do not have a fax machine. This WebGUI helps us to load a document and send it by using the IP protocol.

How to do it…

  1. To send a fax through the WebGUI, go to the Fax | Send Fax menu.

  2. On this web page, enter the parameters according to the following description:

    • Fax Device to use: This is the virtual fax to use for this operation.

    • Destination fax numbers: Here, we enter the numbers to dial to send them fax. Remember to include the desired dialing prefix. The numbers are separated by commas.

    • Text Information or File Upload: If we select Text Information, we can enter the text we would like to send as a fax. The following image shows this procedure:

  3. If we select File Upload, the screen will change in order to upload a file in either pdf, tiff, or txt format. The size limit of this file is 10 MB. Please notice that the destination fax number is the same as that used when dialing...