System information

import sys
import os
import email
import base64
import shutil
import socket
AMI_HOST = "localhost"
AMI_PORT = 5038
AMI_USER = "hello"
AMI_PASS = "world"
# This script will pull a TIFF out of an email and save it off to disk to allow
# the SendFax() application in Asterisk to send it. This is the location on
# disk where the TIFF will be stored.
TIFF_LOCATION = "/tmp/loremipsum.tif"
# Read an email from stdin and parse it.
msg = email.message_from_file(sys.stdin)
# For testing purposes, if you wanted to read an email from a file, you could
# do this, instead.
#try:
# f = open("email.txt", "r")
# msg = email.message_from_file(f)
# f.close()
#except IOError:
# print "Failed to open email input file."
# sys.exit(1)
# This next part pulls out a TIFF file attachment from the email and saves it
# off to disk in a format that can be used by the SendFax() application. This
# part of the script is incredibly non-flexible. It assumes that the TIFF file
# will be in a specific location in the structure of the message (the second
# part of the payload, after the main body). Further, it assumes that the
# encoding of the TIFF attachment is base64. This was the case for the test
# email that we were using that we generated with mutt. Emails sent by users'
# desktop email clients will vary in _many_ ways. To be used with user-
# generated emails, this section would have to be much more flexible.
try:
f2 = open(TIFF_LOCATION, "w")
f2.write(base64.b64decode(msg.get_payload()[1].get_payload().replace("\n", "")))
f2.close()
except IOError:
print "Failed to open file for saving off TIFF attachment."
sys.exit(1)
# Now that we have a TIFF file to fax, connect to the Asterisk Manager Interface
# to originate a call.
ami_commands = """Action: Login\r
Username: %s\r
Secret: %s\r
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