Internet Fax and FreeBSD

[Lord Raiden]

HI all.  Got a question.  I saw this the other day and I had almost forgot 
all about this since I haven't heard or talked about it in ages with 
anyone.  But what I saw was someone using an internet fax service on their 
computer (namely my hardware supplier) to receive faxed in bids and price 
quotes and in turn to send in orders to the suppliers.

I could set this up using Winfax on one of our 2k server, but I'd rather 
do it on a Freebsd server since I have more of them and I am not a big fan 
of Winfax anyways.  :)  What port or program would I use to setup such a 
thing on one of our systems and what, if any service would we need to 
signup to in order to use this?  Would I be able to receive internet faxes 
from other people who are also setup to send them, or would I again need to 
go through an online fax service?

I'm exploring this as a possibility right now, so I'm just asking to see 
what options are out there.  Plus it gives me something to do when we get 
some freetime.  :)  I'm looking for a new toy to play with.  hehe.

-- The Raiden Knows

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your step, for you are about to fall. - Ancient Proverb

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Re: Internet Fax and FreeBSD

[Wayne Pascoe]

Lord Raiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 
   I could set this up using Winfax on one of our 2k server, but
   I'd rather do it on a Freebsd server since I have more of them
   and I am not a big fan of Winfax anyways.  :)  What port or
   program would I use to setup such a thing on one of our
   systems and what, if any service would we need to signup to in
   order to use this?  Would I be able to receive internet faxes
   from other people who are also setup to send them, or would I
   again need to go through an online fax service?

If you're just trying to do faxing from the desktop, or faxing over a
local network, then Hylafax may work for you. Using this your *nix and
Windows users can all fax through a single fax modem. I've not set it
up on FreeBSD but it was pretty easy to get going on GNU/Linux.

I'm not sure I get what you're saying about Internet Faxes. I use
e-mail for Internet communications ;)

 
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