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Faxing From Outlook
Hi,
Not used a fax machine in some years (since I changed employer). A current colleague has a need to send lots of stuff via fax (don't ask why) but everything is in Word and Outlook, and I remembered that with my old employer, I used to be able to compose an email in Outlook and send it to a fax machine. Thing is I have no idea how this worked. I've read through the KB article, Faxing in Windows XP" and whilst enlightening, it expects one to have a fax modem connected to a phone line. I'm just using a "standard" (yes I know they're all different buy you get the idea) corporate PC which connects to the world via ethernet and the corporate network, so I have no fax modem. This was the case at my previous job too, so I know this is entirely possible. I have a large degree of control over how my machine (and my colleague's) is configured so if I need to make changes I most likely can. Unless it sat on the exchange server, I'm unaware of my old employer using any special means to send email to faxes via outlook, Any thoughts on how I can duplicate this functionality (or comments that I'm an idiot and should have noticed this or that KB article!) will be very gratefully received and profuse apologies given if I've missed the very obvious. Many thanks. Tom. |
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Faxing From Outlook
mr-tom wrote:
Hi, Not used a fax machine in some years (since I changed employer). A current colleague has a need to send lots of stuff via fax (don't ask why) but everything is in Word and Outlook, and I remembered that with my old employer, I used to be able to compose an email in Outlook and send it to a fax machine. Thing is I have no idea how this worked. I've read through the KB article, Faxing in Windows XP" and whilst enlightening, it expects one to have a fax modem connected to a phone line. I'm just using a "standard" (yes I know they're all different buy you get the idea) corporate PC which connects to the world via ethernet and the corporate network, so I have no fax modem. This was the case at my previous job too, so I know this is entirely possible. I have a large degree of control over how my machine (and my colleague's) is configured so if I need to make changes I most likely can. Unless it sat on the exchange server, I'm unaware of my old employer using any special means to send email to faxes via outlook, Any thoughts on how I can duplicate this functionality (or comments that I'm an idiot and should have noticed this or that KB article!) will be very gratefully received and profuse apologies given if I've missed the very obvious. Many thanks. Tom. You *can't* fax without a fax modem. You can get from an application on your computer to a fax modem in at least the following 3 ways. 1. Install a fax modem in your computer. This can either be internal (PCI card) or external (USB, or in the old days, serial). In addition to the hardware, you'll have to install Windows XP Fax Services and hope that it decides that the fax modem you bought is acceptable. See http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm (some links on the page are outdated) 2. Use a network fax server. This is undoubtedly what your previous employer used. The last time I looked into this, RightFax was the market leader. It's quite expensive. http://faxsolutions.opentext.com/fax-server.aspx 3. Use one of the many Internet fax solutions. eFax is one such: http://www.efax.com/ -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Faxing From Outlook
Thanks Lem.
Seems astonishing really - it's such an old technology that I naievely expected that pretty much any server or router that talks to the web (which basically is just sending stuff down phone lines) would also talk to faxes. Ah well - thanks for clarifying. Tom. "Lem" wrote: mr-tom wrote: Hi, Not used a fax machine in some years (since I changed employer). A current colleague has a need to send lots of stuff via fax (don't ask why) but everything is in Word and Outlook, and I remembered that with my old employer, I used to be able to compose an email in Outlook and send it to a fax machine. Thing is I have no idea how this worked. I've read through the KB article, Faxing in Windows XP" and whilst enlightening, it expects one to have a fax modem connected to a phone line. I'm just using a "standard" (yes I know they're all different buy you get the idea) corporate PC which connects to the world via ethernet and the corporate network, so I have no fax modem. This was the case at my previous job too, so I know this is entirely possible. I have a large degree of control over how my machine (and my colleague's) is configured so if I need to make changes I most likely can. Unless it sat on the exchange server, I'm unaware of my old employer using any special means to send email to faxes via outlook, Any thoughts on how I can duplicate this functionality (or comments that I'm an idiot and should have noticed this or that KB article!) will be very gratefully received and profuse apologies given if I've missed the very obvious. Many thanks. Tom. You *can't* fax without a fax modem. You can get from an application on your computer to a fax modem in at least the following 3 ways. 1. Install a fax modem in your computer. This can either be internal (PCI card) or external (USB, or in the old days, serial). In addition to the hardware, you'll have to install Windows XP Fax Services and hope that it decides that the fax modem you bought is acceptable. See http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/FAQFAX.htm (some links on the page are outdated) 2. Use a network fax server. This is undoubtedly what your previous employer used. The last time I looked into this, RightFax was the market leader. It's quite expensive. http://faxsolutions.opentext.com/fax-server.aspx 3. Use one of the many Internet fax solutions. eFax is one such: http://www.efax.com/ -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html . |
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