Anyone setup an enterprise quality fax server?

[James McDonald]

Brad De Vries wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:34:12 +1100, James McDonald
><james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
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>>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...
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>>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.
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>>any insights would be appreciated.
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>>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.
>
5yrs is a long while in Linux software circles it's probably very mature 
now.... I just want to be able to mail merge from word and fax the 
results...
Individual faxes are easy in windows but multiple faxes are hopeless.

Anywho .... I think I'll have to give it a whirl

James