Looking for Fax Server

[F1lby]

Hi,

I'm trying to do a relatively simple task - source, purchase and build a dedicated fax server.

If only it were that easy.

I've tried GFI Faxmaker 12, ActiveFax 3.81 and Zetafax 9.

My requirements are Email to fax and print to fax.

Email to fax is for all European office staff so they can fax via a central fax gateway. So for example a remote pop3 user would send an email to FAX@OURDOMAIN.COM .

Print to fax is for anyone in head office, so a document can be faxed as a virtual printer from Word, etc.

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Faxmaker seems to only accept faxes via email with some odd config on the mail server - i.e. it says that you send a fax to DIALNUMBER@domain.com . This I can't arrange so I'm stuffed here. I don't have a whole domain to use for this purpose!

ActiveFax didn't appear to support email very well either.

My Demo of ZetaFax wouldn't even start (ZETAFAX service wouldn't start) :-(

So after a day of downloading and installing I've all but given up.

Does anyone have any idea of a Fax server solution that worked as simply as clunky old Microsoft Fax 1.0 (found in SBS4.5). MS fax server wasn't very clever but it integrated very well indeed.

Many Thanks In Advance.

Phil Blythe

 

[NetIntruder]

well, Omtoole offers Genifax, which has it's share of issues, but it does what you are looking to do...

~Intruder~
CEH, MCSA/MCSE 2000/2003

"The Less You Do, The Less Can Go Wrong"

 

[nsanto17]

look at castelle - Faxpress

We use an old version that still runs on our Novell Server.

 

[anawrocki]

Captaris Rightfax along with the appropriate Brooktrout boards have been working wonders for our company. We have used for over 7 years and we are very happy.

 

[Dante808]

Should probaly try to read a little more into the GFI product. Its IMO the best out there. We have absolutely no problems with it, and don't have the problems that you have.