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AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 6 Months ago Karma: 104
Have you seen how the guys of Avantfax are improvig it??
They have released many versions in some months. I think that now it has less issues on the install process.
You should really consider to give it a try for 0.9.1.
Don't try to integrate it with the elastix inteface an the moment, as it would take more time, just force the link to open in other tab/page.
I'm going to try to install it myself, but I'm not too good, though I'm getting better.
If I have any success I will give you a guideline.
It has lots of really great features!!
Look here:
www.avantfax.com/screenshots.php
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Re:AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 6 Months ago Karma: 0
I agree with this. I'm using Elastix for the IAX2 faxing capabilities. The only thing that Hylafax/Elastix lacks is the web faxing that Avantfax has included. For example, I can send a fax on a web GUI where it does all of the post-scripting for you. Alternatively you can configure Elastix-Hylafax on your own for the Print-to-fax app, or email-to-fax setup. Although one problem I've seen with print-to-fax is that you cannot specify the "from-fax number/DID" so it picks them at random and the recipient doesn't get your true fax number on the header.

I've also had to develop IP TABLES firewall for Elastix/CentOS because I do not want to put a firewall in front of it. The problem with Hylafax and IP TABLES is the FTP-PASSIVE. I've gotten around that by loading the proper IP tables modules. I am willing to share my code with the Elastix developers upon request.

Adminsparadise includes Avantfax. However it is far from reliable which is why I am sticking to Elastix.
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Re:AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 6 Months ago  
We're going to analyze the possibility of incluiding a Web based fax application for sending faxes in Elastix.
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Re:AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 6 Months ago Karma: 0
Eham, what is "far from unreliable" is it just the webfax feature or Adminsparadise in general?

I am unable to test it since I cannot even install it because it is based on hardware-selective CentOS4 and the LiveCD does not show any GUI either.<br><br>Post edited by: techieg, at: 2007/11/18 21:32
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Re:AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 6 Months ago Karma: 0
techieg wrote:
Eham, what is &quot;far from unreliable&quot; is it just the webfax feature or Adminsparadise in general? .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Post edited by: techieg, at: 2007/11/18 21:32


Adminsparadise's Avantfax implementation seems to be incomplete and out of date. Avantfax's latest version is a few trains ahead of Adminsparadises'. They need to keep up on stuff which of course depends on how much time the developers have to maintain the code.

I'm using a Dell Power Edge 1650. I have not had driver problems with the OEM system using CentOS4 or 5.
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Re:AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 6 Months ago Karma: 0
Its obvious that the Adminsparadise guys are not moving on with that stuff. I mean, look at their forums, nothing gets answered and the application itself is based on CentOS 4 when CentOS 5 has been out for ages. I know Elastix's Avantfax integration will be much better anyway.

When I said CentOS 4 is picky on hardware, I did not mean the full blown OS itself. Its weird because the CentOS 4 itself would install on the same machines I have but when I try to install a PBX that is based on CentOS 4 it never installed. It happened to everyone with Trixbox, which the Trixbox guys even acknowledged and finally released one based on CentOS 5.
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Re:AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 6 Months ago Karma: 5
Has anyone else looked at this or installed it? One of the first things that I noted while looking at the pre-requisite was that it supposedly required ghostscript and I seem to recall that ghostscript seemed to cause a lot of problems. The other item was the amount of supporting libraries that were called upon when I did a yum install of ImageMagick.

So, again am I feel obliged to ask, has anyone really installed this and got it working? And did you run into any problems?

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Re:AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 5 Months ago Karma: 0
I have it working.
I followed this post with some minor changes:
www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/sh...-iaxmodem-hylafax-an
The downside is the lack of document type support.
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Re:AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 5 Months ago Karma: 104
Lots of thanks, FuneralMan.
Finally I got Avantfax working fine with Elastix!!!
I have made a script to install it:
Code:

yum install -y ImageMagick ghostscript libtiff netpbm-progs libungif sudo a2ps psutils expect php-pecl-Fileinfo php-devel
pear upgrade-all
pear install db mail mail_mime
pear channel-update pear.php.net
chown -R asterisk:asterisk /var/lib/php/session
cd /usr/src
wget http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/avantfax/avantfax-2.3.0.tgz
tar xfvz avantfax-2.3.0.tgz
cd avantfax-2.3.0
chown -R asterisk:asterisk avantfax
mv avantfax /var/www/html/
mysql -uroot -peLaStIx.2oo7 &lt; create_user.sql
mysql -uavantfax -pd58fe49 avantfax &lt; create_tables.sql
cd /var/www/html/avantfax/includes/
cp -a local_config-example.php local_config.php
# change manually &quot;$dft_config_lang = &quot;en&quot;;&quot; to your language (&quot;it&quot; in my case)
chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/avantfax/tmp
chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/avantfax/faxes
cd /var/spool/hylafax/bin
mv faxrcvd faxrcvd.old
mv notify notify.old
ln -s /var/www/html/avantfax/includes/faxrcvd.php /var/spool/hylafax/bin/faxrcvd
ln -s /var/www/html/avantfax/includes/notify.php /var/spool/hylafax/bin/notify
mv /usr/bin/faxcover /usr/bin/faxcover.old
ln -s /var/www/html/avantfax/includes/faxcover.php /usr/bin/faxcover
/usr/sbin/faxadduser -a pwd asterisk
/usr/sbin/faxdeluser localhost
/usr/sbin/faxdeluser 127.0.0.1
echo 127.0.0.1 &gt;&gt; /var/spool/hylafax/etc/hosts.hfaxd
echo &quot;asterisk ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot, /sbin/halt, /usr/sbin/faxdeluser, /usr/sbin/faxadduser -u * -p * *&quot; &gt;&gt; /etc/sudoers
echo &quot;0 * * * * /var/www/html/avantfax/includes/phb.php&quot; &gt;&gt; /etc/crontab
echo &quot;0 0 * * * /var/www/html/avantfax/includes/remold.php&quot; &gt;&gt; /etc/crontab
reboot



#server/avantfax/admin
#username: afadmin
#password: password
#and configure a user for AVANTFAX
#server/avantfax/
#to login with the user you just created.
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Re:AVANTFAX is a MUST!!!! 4 Years, 5 Months ago Karma: 0
Great work, question though. is it a script or cut and past each line? Again thanks for the hard work. Larry
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