Specify Fax Phone Number
$fax_phone phonenum
This command identifies the phone number of the fax machine to call. This is a required command (unless you use $voice_phone or $poll_phone instead to specify a voice or poll call).
•For a fax-on-demand callback operation, CopiaFacts will create this command from the phone number entered by the caller in response to standard voice prompt 21 or standard voice prompt 36; or looked up as specified in $caller_id; or specified as $owner_fax; or assigned to system variable RCVRFAX during the request.
•For fax server and broadcast operations, the phone number will be inserted by the client application, perhaps from a broadcast list or phone book. FFMERGE creates this command from the phone number on the document action line.
The parameter on this command is used as follows:
| phonenum | fax phone number to call. For convenience when files are generated, the phone number on this command need not be enclosed in double quotes if it contains embedded spaces. |
The number may be included on the cover sheet by using the system variable @RCVRFAX in the cover sheet template, or in the fax header line.
Non-numeric codes in dial strings are processed as follows:
•If the phone number contains embedded spaces, parentheses, square brackets, hyphens, tilde or slash characters, they are discarded. The processing of '+' is affected by the $country_prefix configuration command. The number is then processed as specified in the $phone_mask command, if any. Any other non-numeric character causes all following characters to be excluded from phone-mask matching (and then replaced). For example this allows you to specify (for analog phone lines only) a delay and then dialing an extension number (e.g. ",,,34"). It also allows a standard analog dial command prefix (e.g. "TW") to be used to bypass phone-mask processing altogether.
•For Diva, TE-Systems, Brooktrout, and BladeWare fax dial operations, the number may be followed by a vertical bar (|) and digits which are output as in-band DTMF between call connection and starting the fax transmission. The extra digits are ignored for the purposes of phone-mask and do-not-send processing. Immediately following the vertical bar, you may insert additional vertical bars, or commas, each of which adds a delay of one second between connection and starting to send the DTMF tones.
•With digital telephone lines and IP ports, all non-numeric characters, other than the vertical bar and its following characters, are discarded, since special prefix characters are never valid.
•The $ suffix and other special characters, and the vertical-bar separator, can be applied to specific numbers or by using the convert option of the $phone_mask.
•For BladeWare SIP calls, the SIP: prefix and account suffix are normally applied using the contents of variable CFSIP_SIPIP. However for direct T.38 calls the phone number may be specified in the form sip:number@domain, and this overrides the domain in CFSIP_SIPIP. When this is done, the media specifications in OTF_DIRECT_OFFER_MEDIA and OTF_DIRECT_ANSWER_MEDIA are used in place of those in OTF_SEND_OFFER_MEDIA and OTF_SEND_ANSWER_MEDIA.
Default: none (required entry for fax transmission)
Examples:
$fax_phone "6307788848"
$fax_phone 6307788848|,,1234 ; delay two seconds before sending DTMF 1234
$fax_phone sip:6307788848@copiacolo.net ; BladeWare direct T.38 call
