RE: [WinMac] NT Fax Server for Mac & PC clients?


Cesar Morales(camorales[at]popmail.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:25:18 -0700 (PDT)


This sounds good, I wonder if you can use Eudora email instead of Exchange?

>We use Biscom's Faxcom for NT. It integrates with Exchange server, which
>lets you send faxes as emails. The viewer works pretty well, and it has
>both mac and pc clients. the server end of it runs on an nt box.
>
>one drawback is that someone (often me) has to go into the mailbox for
>faxcom, open the faxes, see who they are for, and forward them to the
>appropriate recipient.
>
>To send faxes, you just put [Fax:99xxx-xxx] on the address line in outlook
>and it gets faxed. There was some setup required to make faxcom image
>attachments like word documents and such; it costs extra but is easy to set
>up.
>
>Another annoying thing is that as of a few months ago, their software is on
>floppies, which is annoying to install.
>
>For our Big Kahuna, it routes faxes from his personal fax line to his email
>inbox, which is kinda cool.
>
>All in all it works, though the faxes are multipart TIFFs and if you don't
>have the client software you can typically only see the first page of the
>fax.
>
>Caveat: I've never faxed someone from the outlook client on a mac but I'll
>try if you would like.
>
>ian
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Cesar Morales [mailto:camorales@popmail.ucsd.edu]
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 12:30 PM
>>To: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu; managers@ucsd.edu
>>Subject: [WinMac] NT Fax Server for Mac & PC clients?
>>
>>
>>Hello Everyone,
>>
>>We have an NT server, 15 mac clients, and 3 win98/95 clients.
>>
>>I would like to get NT Fax server software so that all the clients can
>>submit fax documents to the server for processing.
>>
>>Can you please recommend, if you know any good software
>>package that will
>>do this effectively/efficiently?
>>
>>What alternative can you suggest?
>>
>>Thank you!
>>
>>Cesar
>>
>>
>>
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