[LUNI] Inbound Fax server

[Ramkrishna Mehendale]

Just my two cents.

Ditto on Hylafax - lots of features.

Time to setup:
I recently setup a Hylafax server primarily for incoming faxes to be 
emailed (pdf) to a reception type who hand sorts them. I would 
categorize myself as a somewhere between a newbie and a poweruser. It 
was relatively easy to setup a fax server (incoming) as compared to 
compiling kernel/modules/samba etc.
Email me if you need details: basically -I used Ubuntu Breezy - server 
install + hylafax
You can also have it simultaneously print to a printer - our setup.

Inward Routing:
You can also sort faxes by calling number.

Outbound / old machine (the paper jammer that prompted hylafax):
We use it on a shared low use voice line.
You can use SalsaFax for 'print to fax' with samba, will also take bunch 
of documents to fax number or one print job to one or more fax numbers.

I have not had to 'admin' for several weeks. Reception type very happy 
receiving pdf emails! and log reports.
-Raam

Jay Strauss wrote:
> On 4/26/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 4/26/06, Samir Faci <samir at esamir.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> If you're sorting by fax number... Hylafax can do that.. that's exactly my
>>> setup.
>>>
>>> It can get pricey if you're ordering a line for each user.. but it does work.
>>>       
>> I'd strongly recommend, if you plan order a line for each user, that
>> you get a handful of DID trunks and use a modem and software that can
>> receive the DID inpulse data from the PSTN.
>>     
>
> I got sorta lost with all the telco acronyms.  So I'd buy a T1 or
> ISDN, plug that into my (not yet determined) phone system, and take a
> couple of lines into my hydrafax fax server ??
>
> Jay
>
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