Symantec Fax program that comes with Win2k? If Win2k comes with Fax
software that can send and receive faxes like a stripped down version of
WinFax, that would be great. The modem is hooked up to a server, it is
not hooked up to the client.
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Ely
Sent: Thu 11/15/2001 1:20 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Cc:
Subject: RE: Fax
For a whoppin 7 faxes a year, I wouldn't do anything beyond
WinFax. I might
even be inclined to use the Symantec Fax program that comes with
W2K...
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:22 AM
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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