fax.conf - configuration of the CapiSuite fax services

This file holds all available config options for the fax services provided by the default scripts distributed with CapiSuite. It is read from /etc/capisuite/fax.conf or/usr/local/etc/capisuite/fax.conf (depending on the installation).

It is divided into one or more sections. A section begins with the section name in square brackets like [section] while the options are key="value" lines.

A special section called [GLOBAL] and one section for each user called [<username>] are required.The <username> must be a valid system user.

The [GLOBAL]-section defines some global options like pathnames and default settings for options that can be overridden in the user-sections. The user-sections hold all the options which belong to a particular user.

spool_dir="/path/to/spooldir/"

This directory is used to archive sent (or failed) jobs. It must exist and the user CapiSuite runs as must have write permission to its subdirectories. Two subdirectories are used:

spooldir/done/

Jobs finished successfully are moved to this directory.

spooldir/failed/

Job which have failed finally end up here.

This option is mandatory.

fax_user_dir="/path/to/userdir/"

This directory is used to store fax jobs and received documents to. It must exist and the user CapiSuite runs as must have write permission to it. It will contain one subdirectory for each configured user (named like his userid). The following subdirectories are used below the user-specific dir:

user_dir/username/received/

Received faxes are saved here.

user_dir/username/sendq/

Fax files to be sent are queued here by capisuitefax.

This option is mandatory.

send_tries="10"

When a fax can't be sent to the destination for any reason, it's tried for several times. This setting limits the number of tries. If all tries failed, the job will be moved to the failed dir (see fax_spool_dir) and the user will get a mail.

This option is optional. If not given, it defaults to 10 tries.

send_delays="60,60,60,300,300,3600,3600,18000,36000"

When a fax can't be sent to the destination for any reason, it's tried again. This setting specifies the delays in seconds between subsequent tries. The different values are separated with commas and no blanks. The list should have send_tries-1 (see fax_send_tries) values - if not, surplus entries are ignored and missing entries are filled up with the last value. The default should just be ok giving you increasing delays for up to 10 tries.

This option is optional. If not given, it defaults to the list shown above.

send_controller="1"

If you have more than one ISDN controller installed (some active cards for more than one basic rate interface like the AVM C2 or C4 are also represented as multiple controllers for CAPI applications like CapiSuite), you can decide which controller (and therefore which basic rate interface) should be used for sending your faxes. All controllers are numbered starting with 1. If you're not sure which controller has which number, increase the log level to at least 2 in CapiSuite (see [xref to sect2]), restart it and have a look in the log file where all controllers will be listed then. Unfortunately, CapiSuite isn't able to use more than one controller for sending faxes at the moment, so no list is allowed here. If you have only one controller, just leave it at 1

This option is optional. If not given, it defaults controller 1.

outgoing_MSN="<your MSN>"

This number is used as our own number for outgoing calls. If it's not given, the first number of fax_numbers is used (see user sections). If this one is also empty, the user can't send faxes. Please replace with one valid MSN of your ISDN interface or leave empty. This value can be overwritten in the user sections individually.

This option is optional. If not given, it defaults to empty.

outgoing_timeout="60"

Default setting which defines how many seconds we will wait for a successful connection after dialing the number. This value can be overwritten in the user sections individually.

This option is optional. If not given, it defaults to 60 seconds.

dial_prefix=""

If anything is entered here, it will be used as a prefix which is added to any number given to capisuitefax as prefix. This is e.g. very helpful if your ISDN adapter is connected to a PBX which needs "0" for external calls. It's also possible to disable its usage later for a certain fax document, so setting this will certainly not prevent you from placing internal calls without prefix.

This option is optional. If not given, it defaults to an empty prefix.

fax_stationID="<your faxID>"

Default fax station ID to use when sending a fax document. The station ID is usually the number of your fax station in international format, so an example would be "+49 89 123456" for a number in Munich, Germany. Station IDs may only consist of the "+"-sign, spaces and the digits 0-9. The maximal length is 20. This value can be overwritten in the user sections individually.

This option is mandatory.

fax_headline="<your faxheadline>"

Default fax headline to use when sending a fax document. Where and if this headline will be presented depends on the implementation of your CAPI driver. The headline should have a reasonable length to fit on the top of a page, but there's no definite limit given.

This option is optional. If not given, it defaults to an empty headline.

fax_email_from="<mailaddress>"

You can set a default originator ("From"-address) for the e-mails CapiSuite sends here.

This option is optional. If you set this to an empty string, the destinator is used as originator (i.e. if "gernot" receives a fax, the mail comes from "gernot" to "gernot").

outgoing_MSN

User specific value for the corresponding global option

outgoing_timeout

User specific value for the corresponding global option

fax_stationID

User specific value for the corresponding global option

fax_headline

User specific value for the corresponding global option

fax_email_from

User specific value for the corresponding global option

fax_numbers="<number1>,<number2>,..."

A list containing the numbers on which this user wants to receive incoming fax calls. These numbers are used to differ between users - so the same number must not appear in more than one user section! The numbers are separated with commas and no blanks are allowed. The first number of the list also serves as our own number for sending a fax if outgoing_MSN is not set (see outgoing_MSN).

If you want to use the same number for receiving fax and voice calls, pleasedo not enter it here. Use the voice_numbers option instead (see answering_machine.conf(5)) - the answering machine has a built in fax detection and can also receive faxes.

When this list is set to *,all incoming calls will be accepted for this user (use with care!). This is only useful for a setup with only one user which wants to receive any call as fax.

If for any reason no destination number is signalled for special MSNs (austrian telecom seems to do this for the main MSN, where it is called "Global Call"), you can use the special sign - which means "no destination number available".

This option is optional. If not given, the user can't receive fax documents.

fax_email=""

If given, this string indicates email-addresses where the received faxes will be sent to. More addresses are separated by commas. If it is empty, they will be sent to the user account on the system CapiSuite is running on. The address is also used to send status reports for sent fax jobs to. If you don't want emails to be sent at all, use the action option (see option fax_action) below.

This option is optional. If not given, the mail is sent to the system account.

fax_action="MailAndSave"

Here you can define what action will be taken when a call is received. Currently, two possible actions are supported:

MailAndSave

The received call will be mailed to the given address (seefax_email above) and saved to the fax_user_dir (see global options)

SaveOnly

The call will be only saved to the fax_user_dir (see global options)

This option is mandatory.

capisuite(8), capisuite.conf(5), answering_machine.conf(5), capisuitefax(1)

Gernot Hillier <gernot@hillier.de>.