OT: Fax via PC

[no-one]

Hi,

Anyone know of a fax programme that will automatically forward a copy of a received fax by email?

TIA

[Usenet Nutter]

Dunno about "automatically" but anything here take your fancy?

[no-one]

is called "automailer". Just need something to cover a period that a fax machine proper cannot be attended.

Regards.

[Steve Walker]

It's worth a check with your ISP to see if they offer anything - mine issues an individual fax number, that delivers an email to me, with the fax as a tiff attachment.

SteveW

[Lobster]

I use

which will do the job; but you need to use a new (free-to-obtain expensive-to-use 0871) number - not sure if you mean you want to use an existing fax number?

David

[no-one]

[snip}

Thanks for the suggestions. Situation is I have a fax machine but wanted, if possible, to swop it out for a PC+fax software while I was away. Hopefully, the software would then email any incoming faxes to a colleague elsewhere in the interim. (Fax number for receive has to stay the same)

Regards.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not sure S-fax on Linux doesn't do that.

[Lobster]

Could you temporarily divert the existing fax number to the Faxtastic one? I presume you can seamlessly divert fax calls in the same way you can with voice calls?

It would mean that you'd be paying for forwarding calls to 0871 xxx, so it would depend if this was a quick'n dirty solution just to trap the odd incoming fax, or whether it's intended to forward a large number of them over a reasonable period.

David