Re: [hylafax-users] HyalaFax and AvantFax, confused!

[David Mimms <david.mimms@xxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 26, 2008, at 7:15 PM, Tiago Teixeira wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Maybe this isn't the right and best place to talk abou avantfax, but  
> they're related.
> I simply can't understand, besides AvantFax being a Web interface and
> archive for faxes, the main roles of both. I mean, who is really  
> responsible
> to get the faxes and put them in tiff in the recvq?

> Hylafax only process the received and sent faxes and avantfax uses  
> hylafax's received tiff files to
> display it to the user in pdf and with archived and associated with  
> a phonebook?


HylaFAX is responsible for placing the faxes in the recvq directory  
and for launching the "FaxrcvdCmd" script.  In this case, AvantFAX's  
faxrcvd.php.

Likewise, HylaFAX takes care of processing outbound faxes, and then  
launches the "NotifyCmd" script -- AvantFAX's notify.php.

These scripts create the thumbnail and fax images for viewing online,  
and plug into the AvantFAX MySQL database to store various information  
about the fax job (ie: sender, fax number, #pages, date, etc) and the  
path to the PDF and TIFF files.

Once the faxes have been added to the AvantFAX database, they can be  
safely removed from HylaFAX's recvq directory (typically with faxcron).


> Any links, articles or other things for me to understand this step  
> by step?

These diagrams may help:

http://www.avantfax.com/img/screenshots/faxin.png
http://www.avantfax.com/img/screenshots/faxout.png

Dave


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