17. Fax Server

Many attempts have been made to cleanly integrate Asterisk with faxing, with inconsistent results. For a long time, app_rxfax, available at www.soft-switch.org was the accepted convention. Unfortunately it is error prone and unreliable. Faxes often arrive piecemeal, or worse, not at all.

For that reason, we describe a more robust solution using IAXmodem here (see http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net).