Re: [hylafax-users] calling card use with hylafax

[Bob Gamble <kiksadiweb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the response Lee.  I'll explain it like this.  When I use a brother fax machine or similar for long distance, I start by dialing my calling card's 1-800-xxx-xxxx number.  I can listen to the prompts, which ask for my card number, then for the fax number.

Once the remote fax answers, I push the "Start" button on the fax machine and it happily sends my fax.  I thought there might be a way to send this 1-800 number using dial rules.  I am very new to hylafax so I can only tell you I assumed there was a way.

So basically, looking at the documentation, dial rules can do things based on numbers at the start of a given dial string.  So, in my case, if the fax number given starts with a 1, treat it as a long distance number and prefix 1-800-xxx-xxxx with my calling card number, then the fax number.

If I can't do that with hylafax natively, I have found that hylafsp's client can do it; for a price.  I don't mind paying for useful software, but I heard it may not be too difficult to develop my own.  Or maybe hylafax does this in some way.

Thanks for the response and interest in my question.

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would like to be able to answer this question meaningfully, but since I've never used a calling card I'm not really sure how it's supposed to work.  So if you could explain what's supposed to happen maybe I could be of some use.

There is clearly some deliberate effort by the server and sendfax client to support calling card numbers by use of the % character (i.e. 'sendfax -d faxnumber%callingcardnumber'), but since I don't understand how calling card works I don't really know what's expected.

Thanks,

Lee.

Bob Gamble wrote:

Hello,

I have done much searching trying to figure out how to send my calling card info with a long distance number.  I see many posts showing how to strip the calling card info, but I cannot figure out how to even use calling card info.

I am assuming when I start a number with "1" it will know this is long distance.  I'm pretty sure I will edit the dialrules file for this.  And from what I've read, the line would start with:

^[1]${Country}${AreaCode}&...

but after that is what I am unsure of how to complete.   And I can be completely off track with the above.

Thanks for any help.  I will keep on searching in the meantime.