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14th March 2006 AsterFax version 1.0 beta 8 released
by Helen - Mar 22nd 2006 16:36:32
After much ado and just plain hard work beta 8 is finally released.
This released was primarily aimed at improving error handling. Previous
released of AsterFax where unable to retrieve transmission errors and as
such had to assumed that all transmissions failed. With a patch to txfax we
can now get acurate error messages and report them when a transmission
fails.
A lot of clean up work has also been undertaken as well as support for
Rich Text Files and landscape mode.
There is still somework to be done on making the errors human
readable.
Beta 8 is another major milestone in AsterFax's development. All
significant features slated for the version 1.0 release have now been
implemented. The remaining working centres around improving the
installation process, adding additional converters and adding a header to
the fax.
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Noojee IT (http://www.noojeeit.com.au) is pleased to a announce the release of the source for AsterF
by Helen - Feb 27th 2006 17:43:41
Noojee IT (http://www.noojeeit.com.au) is pleased to a announce the release
of the source for AsterFax - Email to fax gateway for Asterisk
(http://asterfax.sourceforge.net)
The code base is still quite raw and is likely to go through a number of
refactoring efforts before AsterFax 1.0
is released.
If you would like to get on board and start contribution to the effort now
is your chance. This is a great project which has a rapidly growing list of
interested users.
Just in case you don't know Asterisk is an Open Source PBX (PABX).
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1 February 2006 AsterFax verision 1.0 beta 7 released
by Helen - Feb 20th 2006 16:33:41
Asterfax provides an Email to Fax gateway for the transmission of faxes
using Asterisk.
Asterisk is an Open Source PBX (or PABX) integrating PSTN telephone lines
and VOIP into a single solution, providing all of the functionality of a
high end PBX; and best of all its free!
AsterFax builds on the services provided by Asterisk to provide a full
fledged email based Fax Gateway.
What that means is that with AsterFax and Asterisk you can send faxes from
your desktop using your standard email client without have to install any
software on your desktop.
AsterFax can translate a normal email message into a fax message. You
simply enter the destination phone number in the 'To' address, compose your
email message and click send. Its that easy.
For more formal correspondence AsterFax also supports a growing number of
file formats such as PDF, Tiff, Postscript, MS-Word and OpenOffice Writer.
You can either attach the file to your email message or for applications
such as MS-Word and OpenOffice you can fax directly from the applications
by using the 'Send Email' option. The resulting email is sent as a fax
message.
Beta 7 was introduced to allows AsterFax to deal with a number of usage
scenarios identified from user feed back.
Only one of the features oringally slated for Beta 7 has been included in
this release (transmission of unsent faxes after a restart) all other
features slated for beta 7 have now been pushed back to beta 8.
The main points of Beta 7 are:
Improved documentation.
Multiple attachments are now handled and all transmitted rather than just
the first attachment.
Fix for NullPointerException when sending an HTML Cover Page.
Automatic setting of execute permissions on all scripts.
Audit Log no includes a page count.
The Page size (Letter, A4 etc) can now be set via AsterFax.xml.
AsterFax can now be successfully run in the background.
A new experimental Web interface for sending faxes.
http://asterfax.sourceforge.net/AsterFax%20News.html
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Re: 1 February 2006 AsterFax verision 1.0 beta 7 released
by Helen - Jun 15th 2006 21:44:34
%'AsterFax'
>
>Press release
>We are pleased to announce the release of AsterFax 1.0 rc2.
>
>AsterFax provides an Email to Fax gateway for the transmission of
faxes
>using Asterisk.
>Asterisk is an Open Source PBX (or PABX) integrating PSTN telephone
lines
>and VoIP into a single solution, providing all of the functionality
of a
>high end PBX; and best of all its free!
>AsterFax builds on the services provided by Asterisk to provide a
full
>fledged email based Fax Gateway.
>With AsterFax you can send and receive faxes directly from your
existing
>email client without installing any desktop software.
>AsterFax can translate a normal email message into a fax message. You
>simply enter the destination phone number in the 'To' address,
compose your
>email message and click send. Its that easy.
>For more formal correspondence AsterFax also supports a growing
number of
>file formats such as PDF, Tiff, Postscript, MS-Word and OpenOffice
Writer.
>You can either attach the file to your email message or for
applications
>such as MS-Word and OpenOffice you can fax directly from the
application by
>using the 'Send Email' option. The resulting email is sent as a fax
>message.
>For incoming faxes AsterFax support routing of emails based on a
Direct In
>Dial (DID) number. Which means that every person in an organization
can
>have their own private fax number. AsterFax DID to email address
mappings
>can be stored in a simple configuration file or be pulled from an
LDAP
>repository or virtually any Database.
>This release includes a number of install process improvements and
minor
>bug fixes. The install process now creates all the working
directories.
>The compression scheme used in creating TIFF images has been changed
to
>group 4 compression improving the ability to preview faxes using
third
>party TIFF viewers.
>The DefaultFaxHandler has been fixed to handle both inbound and
outbound
>faxes.
>Future releases will further improve the install process, provide an
init
>script. We're also looking at providing the RPMs in a public yum
>repository.
>You can download AsterFax from sourceforge at
>http://asterfax.sourceforge.net and click the 'Downloads' link on the
right
>hand side.
>Enjoy!
>The AsterFax Team
>http://www.asteriskit.com.au
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