For receiving faxes, consider jfax (http://www.j2.com/index.asp).
Receiving is free, you get your own fax number, faxes get emailed to
you. They do sending, too, for a minor fee--something like $4.95 a
month, plus per minute charges. The free fax receive works great--I've
used it for the last year or two, no problem. I haven't used their send
fax service, so I can't tell you about that.
It's not integrated with Exchange, but you do get faxes via email, and
it really really works! Doesn't sound like you really need integration,
anyway.
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:22 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Fax
I am not looking for anything fancy. I just want the ability to fax out
of Outlook and receive faxes. I get about 2 per year and I send about 5
per year.
I was hoping to not spend any money if I dont have to. I may have to
look to something like WinFax.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dupler, Craig
Sent: Thu 11/15/2001 12:54 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Cc:
Subject: RE: Fax
Oh, one other thing. If someone on the outside of your company
is
sophisticated enough to be able to handle supplemental DTMF
addressing to
cause an inbound fax arriving at your Exchange Server to be
properly routed,
then that person will have access to a digital route, which
basically means
that inbound automatic routing can work, but no one is ever
going to use it.
You can buy the technology, but that does not make it
worthwhile. Inbound
will have to be manually forwarded.
Fax really is an obsolete technology that is probably less
useful than an
Underwood.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dupler, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:37 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Fax
I agree with both EG's (Exchange goddesses)
Can Exchange act as a fax server? Not exactly. Fax's can be
transported by
SMTP as a registered MIME type. This of course makes the server
blind to
the content, and means that it can be a client issue. However,
Exchange
Server can also have a FAX service or connector installed. This
enables the
server itself to drive a modem or high grade telephony board to
either
directly send or receive faxes. Outbound, MAPI clients (i.e.
Outlook) or
OWA clients can send to a fax recipient using ad hoc addressing,
once the
FAX address type has been created by adding such a service. Of
course,
permanent fax addressees can be stored in the AD/GAL or the
PAB/CL.
Inbound, is a little trickier. If the inbound fax has some DTMF
supplemental addressing that maps (insert magic box here) to an
AD/GAL
addressee, then the MTA can deliver it. Alternately, they can
be routed to
a specific printer, or a specific secretarial addressee for
manual
forwarding.
Several vendors make one of these combination fax connector and
magic box
servers for Exchange.
Microsoft Fax is a client tool. It is not Exchange Server
aware. It's been
awhile since I looked at it, but if it can save a document as a
fax file,
then presumably this could be attached to a mail message and the
proper MIME
type would get applied. But as the EG's said, this would be lame
beyond
belief or any human comprehension. Usually people are
interested in
transmitting digital data and getting non-digital data into some
sort of
intelligible format. To take a perfectly good digital document,
then store
it as a useless piece of raster junk, and then send it as an
SMTP attachment
to someone that has some sort of a junky raster-only printer,
well, that
would be sad. So it is hard to imagine a scenario in which
someone would
want to spend money integrating MS Fax to an e-mail service.
The right way to leverage MS Fax is in a scenario in which you
have a
requirement for a small number of users to send or receive
Faxes, but can't
cost justify the incremental cost of something like OmTool for
Exchange over
the cost of some personal modems.
Some organizations are going to be in a bind with this. Most
good
enterprise security policies prohibit using a personal modem to
link to an
external connection while at the same time being connected to
the enterprise
network. Obviously, something like OmTool solves this problem,
but that
does not make the cost story any prettier.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:58 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Fax
Can Exchange act as a Fax Server? Does it integrate with MS Fax?
I want
to be able to Fax out of Outlook, but I want to avoid buying
something
like winfax.
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