[Gllug] Fax server software

[Alain Williams]

Hi,

I spent a frustrating day trying to get a fax server working for a customer.
Someone had selected GFI Faxmaker ( http://www.gfi.com/faxmaker/ ) on Win2K
because it integrated nicely with MS Exchange. Many hours on the help desk
(they really were helpful) and many BSODs and it still isn't working.

I have convinced them to look at the options again. There are Linux boxes
that this could run on.

What would you suggest ? The requirements are:

* Users should send the fax by email, eg: 02012345678 at fax.machine, Exchange
  can be set up to route such mail to the fax server.

* The mail will be sent as a fax, if there are attachments (.doc/.xls/.html/.pdf)
  they will be rendered and sent as part of the fax.

* Success/failure reports to be sent back to the fax sending user.

* Incoming faxes delivered by email as an attached png/gif/pdf/.... Scanning (OCR)
  of a fax to ascii/... would be a bonus.

* Automatic routing of incoming faxes where possible, if a fax destination
  cannot be determined it should be sent to a mailbox for manual/human routing.
  GFI fax claims some interesting auto routing abilities:
	http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID001349

* POTS telephone lines, eventually: 2 incoming, 2 outgoing.

* Doesn't really matter if the fax server runs on Linux or Windows, although
  I would, naturally, prefer Linux. It is not a problem if we need to pay for
  the software.

Any goodies extra to the above would be great.

Recommendation on decent fax card/... to work with the fax s/ware as well please.

I would like recommendations from people who have actually done this in a medium sized
organisation.

Many thanks.

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Alain Williams

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