[Wylug-help] Faxing suggestions

[James Holden]

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 11:03 +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> For the first time in ages I'm setting up a network fax facility.
> 
> Last time I did this I used hylafax, but doing a yum search doesn't show this 
> any more.

...and good luck finding a proper hardware modem too :-)

> Before I start looking any deeper, are there (better) alternatives out there?

You could try efax.co.uk, or a software fax implementation using a PSTN
line card rather than a fax modem, although the latter can be a bit of a
PITA to get working reliably.

> The plan is to the PBX's at each site to redirect all incoming faxes to a 
> single PC on that site, which will then receive these incoming faxes and then 
> forward them, probably using SMTP to a central web server for archiving and 
> user retrieval.

Efax will deliver them by email, you can pick them up and do whatever
you wish with them.

> At the moment I'm not looking at sending faxes, but may do in future.

Sending is far trickier than receiving because people will inevitably
want to send things like Word docs.

I've a fair bit of background knowledge in this area so feel free to
mail me off list if you like.

james
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