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Fax Server Solutions for 2005?
Glove d'OJ asks: "For a recent project at work, we are investigating enterprise-wide fax server solutions. Ideally, it would have a rich API for custom development, as well as all of the standard 'fax as a printer' and 'email out a fax' capabilities. Throughout all of my research, however, most of the decent reviewing sites all appear to have last reviewed this technology sometime last century, i.e., 1999 (or in 2000 for the purists.) I cannot find a single somewhat-recent review. Timeliness is definitely important in looking for the API. if the latest documentation refers to 'that new fangled C++' and was written in the pre-C# era, I could have some rough choices ahead. Is this an old technology that is no longer in vogue, or is there a single clear choice with no competition (thus not even requiring a recent review)?"
Hylafax is pretty good, plus it's open source. I too would have implemented it before, but the higher ups decided to go with j2, simply because they have the infrastructure already in place. j2 should allow the submitter to do everything they need, plus more.
The company that I recently joined is/has been using RightFax, and it seems like a quality product, I spoke with our local helpdesk and there are a very low occurance of problems with it.
A link to RightFax
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Email!
OK well you can sign a peice of paper then fax it, which becomes a contract, I don't think you can do this with email but thats' the only downside.
Windows SBS 2003 has a fax server built in? Might be a little light for your needs, but we use it at work quite happily...