Anyone setup an enterprise quality fax server?

[Brad De Vries]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:34:12 +1100, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> I have an issue with windows trying to fax documents to many clients that I want to send email to... It has this insufferable delay and some dialog boxes asking me if I really want to send a fax because windows has been so hacked that It can't trust it's own applications to send faxes...
> 
> anywho I was wondering if anyone has any experience with creating a linux fax server of the enterprise grade variety and getting it to work in a homogenous network.
> 
> any insights would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> James
> 
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James, I starting using HylaFax many years ago for a friends business
and it seemed as though all the necessary pieces were there.

 - The server ran on Linux and there was a client for Windows which
integrated as a printer, IIRC.
 - They had a "corporate" address book for fax numbers, although I
never saw the need for that.
 - There was a local address book for fax numbers but I never got it to work.
 - It had the ability to receive faxes and route them via e-mail
(never worked on the receiving side.)

The one issue I really didn't like was the Windows client screens
seemed to be very ... childish.  For example, the tab key didn't
always get to every field on the screen and certainly didn't go in any
particular order (at least none that I could discern,) some of the
labels were misspelled, the buttons didn't line up perfectly, etc. 
Nothing significant but it still made the product look bad.

I didn't get to use it except for testing but the employees thought
they'd use it all day/every day.  It turned out that they used it a
lot for about a week and hardly ever after that.  I never upgraded it
and when we migrated to new servers and new clients, the product was
never re-installed.  All this took place about 5 yrs ago so I'm sure
things have changed significantly.

HTH,
Brad.