HylaFAX?

[Karl Schmidt]

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 June 2004 09:40 am, Rex Deaver wrote:
> 
> 
>>Need some advice on HylaFAX or other network faxing solutions. 
> 
> 
> It does seem to be the accepted solution, although I'm not sure exactly why.  
> Clients don't seem to have kept up.  The latest one for Mac is a beta 
> released in 1996.  What outbound solution do you people who have it use?

The client I have (WHFC http://www.uli-eckhardt.de/whfc/) is dated 2003. 
  If you are running Debian you will probably have to do the server 
setup by hand - a bit of a pain. But once it is up and going it just 
works. There are several folks around that do comercial support for 
hylafax to set it up for you.

If you are running macs, you should be able to compile some linux client 
for it, and there are sevral to pick from. (If not set up some Debian 
desktops).

A couple of notes - there are lots of cards and fax machines around that 
have buggy firmware - using the older protocol avoids a buch of these 
problems.  Also, if your inside wiring is not twisted pair you will 
often end up with modem performance.

You can run several lines with one server if you need to. We have it 
setup to just email the faxes as a tiff attachment. You can also do fax 
blocking based on the identifiyer string.

While Hylafax is a bit of a pain to setup - after tring 3 or 4 M$ fax 
servers that were easy to set up, but never worked reliably I would 
never go back.

I would guess that there is less fax development going on as it is 
yesterdays technology and hopfully will go away some day, but right now 
we see lots of over-seas customerers that for them FAX is high-tek.

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