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Asked: 2010-09-13 08:31:14 +0800 CST

What is the best way to setup faxing in a local network?

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Is there a way to setup simple faxing, as simple as emailing a document?. Also to multiple contacts at once and to predefined mailing lists.

Please let me know a good client / server.

Free / Opensource, preferred.

Thanks

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  1. Best Answer

    The Asterisk open-source telephony server could do it, with some plugins. Or Hylafax, which appears to be quite popular too.

    I've no experience with either solution, but both are open-source, free and well-known. You'll still need a modem to actually send and receive the faxes.

    Other options are web services that provide fax2email and email2fax. Hundreds of those around, but none-free for obvious reasons.

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  2. For a Fax Server you could use HylaFax, with a web interface like AvantFax, you could also use un the client side JHylaFAX that is an open source and platform independent client for HylaFAX.

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  3. Depending on your volume and users you may find it easier to just outsource it to a service such as myfax,efax, etc. They can do number porting in some situations and offer a lot of features that you may find helpful.

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