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. -- !!!>> INCLUDE ALL TEXT IN TECHNICAL SUPPORT EMAIL REPLIES!!!!!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Schmidt EMail Karl@xtronics.com Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 If you shake a politician's hand, be sure count your fingers. ----------------------------------------------------------------