Email to Fax Help?

[Kenny Riley]

I am running on the Master Branch and I have tried my luck in getting email to fax working via this thread:
https://www.pbxforums.com/threads/email-to-fax-under-fax-server.905/page-2

I've performed the following steps..

1.) Ensured that the send_mode queue enabled option is set to false in Default Settings

2.) Create a Gmail account with IMAP enabled

3.) Added a crontab entry as root to run every two minutes:
*/2 * * * * root wget --no-check-certificate --delete-after https://my.fusion.domain.net/app/fax/fax_emails.php

4.) Deleted all of the items in the GUI for the tenant that I am testing with: App > Fax Server > Sent & Log

5.) Everything I am reading says to delete the files above via CLI as well:
/var/lib/freeswitch/storage/fax/sent
/var/lib/freeswitch/storage/fax/temp

But these directories do not exist on my system.. however /var/lib/freeswitch/storage/fax/TENANT/sent and /var/lib/freeswitch/storage/fax/TENANT/temp do exist.. so I've deleted all of the files in these directories for the tenant that I am testing with.

6.) Restarted Freeswitch service

I've attached my fax server settings for the tenant in question to this thread.

I am sending an email to my Gmail address from an email on the approved senders list with the subject [out]PHONE-NUMBER and attached a PDF file to fax and then watched the /var/log/syslog and can see that my cron is running:

Feb 28 21:08:01 vpbx01-nodea CRON[12688]: (root) CMD (root wget --no-check-certificate --delete-after https://my.fusion.domain.net/app/fax/fax_emails.php)

However I'm not seeing any faxes for this tenant being sent when I look in the sent items or the log.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[markjcrane]

I've heard from multiple sources that this is broken and needs to be fixed.

 

[cfikes]

I've heard from multiple sources that this is broken and needs to be fixed.

I actually just rolled this solution out at our school and its working great. With everything there could be improvements but it is working as expected. I did run into some things that could be documented a little different, is there any way I can contribute to the documentation?

Thanks for the awesome work on FusionPBX!

 

[Kenny Riley]

Hi cfikes

Any way that you could point me in the right direction from the steps I’ve taken listed above?

 

[cfikes]

Hi cfikes

Any way that you could point me in the right direction from the steps I’ve taken listed above?

First thing i would do is run the "https://my.fusion.domain.net/app/fax/fax_emails.php" directly in the browser, if you get any output, your cron job is setup incorrectly. As soon as i get to the office I will pull up my config and post it back to you. Feel free to contact me on discord at feekes#0447 can even share my screen with my setup if it can help.

 

[cfikes]

This is how i have my crontab setup.

*/2 * * * *  wget --no-check-certificate -qO- https://localhost/app/fax/fax_emails.php &> /dev/null