TC-C-FAX :
Telecos Crappy Fax
Very wip... lol
So you want a Fax Gateway ? No ? Do you even know what that is ? Also no? well let me explain.
This project contains all files needed for setting up TC-C-FAX
A fax server that is highly integrated with E-Mail!
What it does ?
It listens for new E-Mails on an E-Mail defined by you. Once one arrives it gives the sender (if unknown) an ID and gives the E-Mail an ID too.
Prints the E-Mail including sender ID and E-Mail ID on your actual Fax machine (can be any fax no matter if Virtual or Real aslong as its a dialable Asterisk Extension)
Now thats all nice and stuff but how do you reply on your fax machine to an E-Mail ? Ah you see thats where the ID system comes in handy!
On you actual fax dial its extension with the E-Mail or Sender ID appended to the extension number and evoila your Fax is sent either as a new E-Mail to the Sender ID you gave or as a reply to E-Mail ID.
Now as of now this is just the concept of how it is supposed to work, this is not actually done yet. Once that all somewhat works there should be a release available.
- An Asterisk Server with an IAX extension set up for the Fax Gateway
- Some way of testing your Fax Gateway (can be a virtual fax or a real one aslong as you can dial it from the IAX extension)
- An E-Mail account without 2FA
- Some Virtualization Platform for the Debian 11 VM needed for this.
You will need Debian 11! Anything newer I was not able to get running and even Debian 11 is a stretch as to how recent it can be. I also don't recommend doing this in a container as of now. If you want to do so your on your own.
As to the Debian VM its nothing special just default no desktop just SSH and standard system utils.
Make sure to have a valid FQDN and preferably have a static IP
- SSH into your VM
- Sign in to root account
- Set Static IP (Optional if fine with DHCP)
Change your primary interface to have static IP
nano /etc/network/interfaces
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug ens18
auto ens18
iface ens18 inet static
address 10.2.1.123
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.2.1.1
CTRL+S to save CTRL+X to exit
- Set Nameservers (Optional if fine with DHCP)
Check on your nameservers and set them
nano /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 10.2.1.1
nameserver 9.9.9.9
CTRL+S to save CTRL+X to exit
-
Restart networking to apply your stuff and sign in on new IP via SSH and sign in to root again
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Setting up the basics (biased) (replace user with your actual user account username)
apt update && apt upgrade && apt install -y sudo fish unzip htop screen tmux
/sbin/usermod -s /usr/bin/fish root
/sbin/usermod -s /usr/bin/fish user
/sbin/usermod -aG sudo user
set -U fish_user_paths /sbin /usr/sbin $fish_user_paths
su user
set -U fish_user_paths /sbin /usr/sbin $fish_user_paths
exit
exit
exit
Sign in as root
1. Install IAX Modem
- Configure IAX Modem
nano /etc/iaxmodem/iaxmodem-cfg.ttyIAX0
Paste the following, making sure to fill in example values with your own
device /dev/ttyIAX0
owner uucp:uucp
mode 660
port 4577
server AsteriskServerIP
refresh 300
peername 157
secret Password123
cidname FaxingFaxingFaxingdaCID
cidnumber 157
codec ulaw
answer yes
CTRL+S to Save CTRL+X to exit
1. Make a service for it
Yes there exists sysv files for it, do we want to use those probably not.
nano /etc/systemd/system/iaxmodem-fax@.service
Paste the following
(yes were running it as root, yes this is stupid)
[Unit]
Description=IAXModem instance %i
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/iaxmodem --configfile /etc/iaxmodem/iaxmodem-cfg.%i
Restart=always
User=root
Group=root
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
CTRL+S to save CTRL+X to exit
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now iaxmodem-fax@ttyIAX0
systemctl status iaxmodem-fax@ttyIAX0
You should now be able to dial the extension and nolonger get Service Unavailable but just the Ring Tone (we have nothing that responds to an incoming call yet but you could pick up using at commands and screen on /dev/ttyAIX0)
- If installing IAX modem didnt create UUCP group and user for some reason run the following but should exist
groupadd --system uucp
useradd --system --no-create-home --gid uucp --shell /usr/sbin/nologin uucp
Again use Debian 11, I've had no luck on Debian 12 for some reason... (5 hours wasted troubleshooting)
Sign in as root
1. Add Contrib to Debian APT Sources
sudo sed -i '/^deb /s/main/main contrib non-free/' /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt update
- Install dependencies and stuff
apt install -y build-essential libtiff-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libpam0g-dev ghostscript gsfonts libgs-dev flex bison libncurses5-dev texinfo libssl-dev libc-client-dev uuid-dev libtool automake autoconf tcl8.6-dev libtiff-tools libjpeg-progs iaxmodem ghostscript gsfonts gsfonts-other gsfonts-x11 imagemagick ttf-mscorefonts-installer wget sendmail
- Download and Extract HylaFax Plus sources
If that download for whatever reason disapears theres a copy in this repo too.
cd /usr/local/src
wget -O hylafax-7.0.10.tar.gz "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hylafax/hylafax-7.0.10.tar.gz?download"
tar -xvzf hylafax-7.0.10.tar.gz
cd hylafax-7.0.10
- Configure it (my example output), build it and install it. (and pray alot)
./configure
make
make install
(I have changed default page size to A4 as thats the norm here)
- Preconfiguring Hylafax and making systemd files.
nano /etc/systemd/system/hylafax-faxq.service
[Unit]
Description=HylaFAX fax queue manager
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/faxq
Restart=always
User=root
Group=root
Type=forking
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
nano /etc/systemd/system/hylafax-hfaxd.service
[Unit]
Description=HylaFAX hfaxd server
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/hfaxd -i hylafax
Restart=always
User=root
Group=root
Type=forking
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
nano /etc/systemd/system/hylafax-faxgetty@.service
[Unit]
Description=HylaFAX faxgetty on %I
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/%I
Restart=always
User=root
Group=root
Type=simple
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now hylafax-faxq
systemctl enable --now hylafax-hfaxd
systemctl enable --now hylafax-faxgetty@ttyIAX0
systemctl status hylafax-faxq
systemctl status hylafax-hfaxd
systemctl status hylafax-faxgetty@ttyIAX0
/usr/local/sbin/faxstat -s
- Install build and hyla deps :
apt update && apt install -y build-essential libtiff-dev libjpeg-dev \
zlib1g-dev libpam0g-dev ghostscript gsfonts libgs-dev flex bison \
libncurses5-dev texinfo libssl-dev libc-client-dev uuid-dev libtool \
automake autoconf tcl8.6-dev libtiff-tools libjpeg-progs iaxmodem ghostscript gsfonts gsfonts-other gsfonts-x11 imagemagick
apt update && apt install -y ttf-mscorefonts-installer
- Download and Extract HylaFax Plus (7) sources
cd /usr/local/src
wget -O hylafax-7.0.10.tar.gz "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/hylafax/hylafax-7.0.10.tar.gz?download"
tar -xvzf hylafax-7.0.10.tar.gz
cd hylafax-7.0.10
- Configure it and Build it (pray)
./configure
make
make install
- Configure IAX Modem (unless you have a physical modem)
nano kill youself or some shit idk figure it out
paste this shit and adjust for ur stuff
device /dev/ttyIAX0
owner uucp:uucp
mode 660
port 4577
server AsteriskServer
refresh 300
peername 157
secret YourPassowrd
cidname Fax
cidnumber 157
codec ulaw
answer yes
enable iaxmodem and see if it works on ur stupid asterisk you dumbass
systemctl enable --now iaxmodem
- configure hylaficknig
nano /etc/systemd/system/hylafax-faxq.service
[Unit]
Description=HylaFAX fax queue manager
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/faxq
Restart=always
User=root
Group=root
Type=forking
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
nano /etc/systemd/system/hylafax-hfaxd.service
[Unit]
Description=HylaFAX hfaxd server
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/hfaxd -i hylafax
Restart=always
User=root
Group=root
Type=forking
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
nano /etc/systemd/system/hylafax-faxgetty@.service
[Unit]
Description=HylaFAX faxgetty on %I
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty /dev/%I
Restart=always
User=root
Group=root
Type=simple
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now hylafax-faxq
systemctl enable --now hylafax-hfaxd
systemctl enable --now hylafax-faxgetty@ttyIAX0
systemctl status hylafax-faxq
systemctl status hylafax-hfaxd
systemctl status hylafax-faxgetty@ttyIAX0
/usr/local/sbin/faxstat -s
rape your modem
/var/spool/hylafax/etc/config.ttyIAX0
CountryCode: 41
AreaCode: 044
FAXNumber: +41445457486
LongDistancePrefix: 0
InternationalPrefix: 00
DialStringRules: etc/dialrules
ServerTracing: 1
SessionTracing: 0xFFF
RecvFileMode: 0600
LogFileMode: 0600
DeviceMode: 0666
RingsBeforeAnswer: 1
SpeakerVolume: off
GettyArgs: "-h %l dx_%s"
LocalIdentifier: "Teleco Group"
TagLineFont: etc/LiberationSans-25.pcf
TagLineFormat: "From Teleco Group Switzerland | %c | Page %%P of %%T""
MaxRecvPages: 25
ModemType: Class1 # use this to supply a hint
ModemResetDelay: 0 # DTR isn't handled, anyway
ModemSoftResetCmdDelay: 0 # modem reset is complete at "OK"
ModemResetCmds: AT+VCID=1 # enables CallID display
PagerTTYParity: none
Class1AdaptRecvCmd: AT+FAR=1
Class1TMConnectDelay: 400 # counteract quick CONNECT response
CallIDPattern: "NMBR="
CallIDPattern: "NAME="
CallIDPattern: "ANID="
CallIDPattern: "NDID="
/usr/local/sbin/faxsetup
