Are asterisk-app-fax's rxfax and txfax applications supposed to work?

[Andrew Pollock]

Hi,

I've installed the asterisk-app-fax packaged to get the rxfax and txfax
applications, and setup an extension thusly:

exten => fax,1,Set(FAXFILE=/var/spool/asterisk/fax/${UNIQUEID:0:${LEN(UNIQUEID)}}.tiff)
exten => fax,n,Set(LOCALSTATIONID="XXXXXXXXXXX")
exten => fax,n,rxfax(${FAXFILE},debug)

Yet when a fax call comes in, it hits this extension correctly (I've set
faxdetect=incoming in my zapata.conf), but after passing through the rxfax
application, I've got nothing to show for it. I see no errors on the
console, just no output.

I found this configuration at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+fax and
I realise it's completely nothing like what the documentation that ships
with asterisk-app-fax says, but it seems to make more sense. It just doesn't
work.

My versions are below. Any suggestions appreciated.

regards

Andrew

$ grep-status -F Status "install ok installed" -s Package,Version | grep-dctrl -P asterisk
Package: asterisk-doc
Version: 1:1.2.1.dfsg-3

Package: asterisk-sounds-main
Version: 1:1.2.10.dfsg-2

Package: asterisk-sounds-extra
Version: 1.2.1-1

Package: asterisk
Version: 1:1.2.10.dfsg-2

Package: asterisk-app-fax
Version: 0.0.20060218-1

Package: asterisk-classic
Version: 1:1.2.10.dfsg-2

Package: asterisk-config
Version: 1:1.2.10.dfsg-2


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