7.22 Filters
Advanced fax filtering. Filter incoming faxes based on 'remote id' or 'caller
id'.
Fax filtering is especially useful for specific or important faxes. For instance, if a user was waiting for a fax from 'Chris Wiles', and was out of the office, he could set up a fax filter to check for the keywords of 'Chris' and/or 'Wiles' (or even remote id). This, and only this, fax would then be forwarded to a specified fax machine.
To create a new fax filter, simply click 'add' within the fax filter preferences and an 'Edit Fax Filter' window will appear.
- Searh for: - search for a specified number or some text within the
fax document.
You could enter a phone number or remote id and, if STFax finds this number, any
faxes received from this number will be filtered. Note that the number must be
'whole'. If you received a fax from '01325 460117' and you had a filter set for
only '460117', the fax would not be filtered. You must enter the full
number as it would appear within the server window when receiving an incoming call.
STFax also supports the standard AmigaOS wildcards, so you could enter '#?460117'
in the above example. Beware that it will then match every sequence which ends
with those 6 digits (it might not be what you want).
- In: - search for whatever you entered in to 'search for', from the
remote ID or caller ID. Note that sometimes the remote ID can differ from caller
ID. For instance a company may call from '01325 460117' but their fax remote ID
might consist of '+44 1325 460117'. You must enter the correct number (including
the '+'), within the 'search for' box, if you wanted to filter a fax from this remote ID.
- Actions: - fax filtering supports more than one rule. A user can
choose to forward a fax to a remote user as well as moving that same fax to a
specific account.
- Print [to the selected printer]- this option would print to the
default printer, or to the one you selected in the popdown gadget (OS3.5+ required).
- Forward to [remote fax number] - forward/transfer to an
external fax machine. Useful for receiving important fax messages.
- Move to [selected box] - move the fax to a specific account.
For instance, if STFax recognises 'Mark' within the fax, the fax will be
transferred to the 'Mark' account.
- Auto reply - automatically reply to the fax document.
- Process successive filters - carry on to the next fax filter, or stop
at this filter.