[Wylug-help] Faxing suggestions

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 27 November 2009 11:27:36 James Holden wrote:
> 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.
> 
I suppose it depends how scalable it needs to be.  If it's a small office, why 
not try the simple way?  I use an HP PhotoSmart all-in-one, networked 
(actually wireless-networked).  It can be set up for both send and receive.  
The hplip package provides the guts, and a simple fax header sheet, which can 
be used or omitted.  Documents can be added - I sent one with an OpenOffice 
document last week.

Anne
-- 
KDE Community Working Group
New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wylug-help/attachments/20091127/95f9d9af/attachment.pgp