RE: flexfax: Automatic routing of incoming fax

[John Ridout <johnridout@ctasystems.co.uk>]

I know of five ways to route incomming faxes:
1 Line / Channel
2 DID
3 DTMF
4 Barcode recognition
5 OCR

-----Original Message-----
From:	Norman Man [SMTP:nhcman@hk.super.net]
Sent:	27 November 1998 01:27
To:	Hylafax; Rainer Krienke
Cc:	Hylafax
Subject:	Re: flexfax: Automatic routing of incoming fax

Hi,

At 10:51 AM 11/26/98 -0800, JÜRGEN ANZER wrote:
>Rainer Krienke wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I´m interested in finding out if there is a way for automatic routing of
>> incoming faxes. I know that this IS possible based on the TSI of the
>> sender. The problem with this solution is, that you can deliver an
>> incoming fax automatically only iff exactly one recipient gets a fax
>> from this sender, simply because the routing is done on the senders
>> adress which is the same for all recipients.
>> 
>> A better solution (if possible) would be to route incoming faxes based
>> on the number the sender has dialed to reach the recipient. So you could
>> give each person interested in reveiving faxes a uniqe faxnumber the
>> sender has to dial in order to reach him. Of course all those numbers
>> would be mapped to the same physical modems actually receiving the fax.
>> This can usually be done by the telefone installation by assigning one
>> physical phone (or modem) several numbers.
>> 
>> Now, if you receive a fax, and if you can get the number the sender has
>> dialed, you can route this fax without problems since each recipient has
>> his own number and the routing is not based on the senders adress.
>> 
>> The only problem is: Is it possible to get the number, the sender has
>> dialed. Is this information perhaps stored somewhere in the faxfile or
>> is it simply unavailable ?
>> 
>
>Interesting idea! But I´m afraid, that the dialed-number of a received
>fax is *not* transmitted ... so it´s not available :(
>
>best regards
>juergen
>
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Not at all, until you have special arrangement with telco when you use co
line. But if you use DID line, actually, telco will send you the DID
numbers before the fax. So, if you cpe(PABX) could echo the same to your
fax server, bingo!

Good luck!

With regards,

Norman