Receiving faxes through Outlook?

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Nocturnal said:
How do you receive faxes through Outlook?
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Get WinFax Pro.

Or subscribe to an online fax service that accepts faxes and sends them to
you as an e-mail (eFax is like this and the receive-only account is still
free).
 
Russ Valentine said:
That would depend on your Outlook version, which you did not mention.
Vanguard is wrong. WinFax Pro is a very poor choice if you want to
integrate with Outlook.
More accurate information is here:
http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/fax.htm
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Nocturnal said:
How do you receive faxes through Outlook?
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WinFax SE was actually included in Outlook (I forget which prior version).
Winfax Pro integrates the same way by linking to the Outlook Address Book.
I think Winfax SE had you add fax@ before the fax number to have Outlook
trigger Winfax SE to handle the fax send. Obviously Winfax SE handled the
fax receive. I thought Winfax SE also let Outlook display the Winfax SE
folders but I don't see that with Winfax Pro.

I have Winfax Pro 10.0 (which is actually 10.01) and there were problems
with their "integration" which required you to get 10.02 but I wasn't about
to fork over more money to Symantec because what they sold in the stores was
defective (and, from what their rep said, was known to have the defect on
its release). I think they are now up to version 11 but faxing is a
once-a-year event that I'm not going to spend much time to setup on my
machine. The Fax Service in Windows XP is usually sufficient for the
occasional 1-page fax along with the Fax Printer to send a multiple-page
document through the Fax Service. Installed WinFax Pro because of its Scan
and Send feature which presents a better looking fax to the recipient than
trying to scan into Word and print to the Fax Printer from there.

According to their help, "From Message Manager, you can send faxes as
self-viewing email attachments, ...". So you can use Outlook to send faxes
and you can use WinFax's Message Manager to send fax attachments in e-mails.
Well, that certainly sounds like a lot of integration: Outlook Address Book
in WinFax, WinFax folders in Outlook, sending faxes from Outlook, sending
self-viewing fax attachments via e-mail from WinFax. What other integration
do you require before Winfax is considered an product that integrates with
Outlook?
 
One that works and is supported.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Vanguard said:
Russ Valentine said:
That would depend on your Outlook version, which you did not mention.
Vanguard is wrong. WinFax Pro is a very poor choice if you want to
integrate with Outlook.
More accurate information is here:
http://home.indy.rr.com/russval/fax.htm
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Nocturnal said:
How do you receive faxes through Outlook?
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WinFax SE was actually included in Outlook (I forget which prior version).
Winfax Pro integrates the same way by linking to the Outlook Address Book.
I think Winfax SE had you add fax@ before the fax number to have Outlook
trigger Winfax SE to handle the fax send. Obviously Winfax SE handled the
fax receive. I thought Winfax SE also let Outlook display the Winfax SE
folders but I don't see that with Winfax Pro.

I have Winfax Pro 10.0 (which is actually 10.01) and there were problems
with their "integration" which required you to get 10.02 but I wasn't
about to fork over more money to Symantec because what they sold in the
stores was defective (and, from what their rep said, was known to have the
defect on its release). I think they are now up to version 11 but faxing
is a once-a-year event that I'm not going to spend much time to setup on
my machine. The Fax Service in Windows XP is usually sufficient for the
occasional 1-page fax along with the Fax Printer to send a multiple-page
document through the Fax Service. Installed WinFax Pro because of its
Scan and Send feature which presents a better looking fax to the recipient
than trying to scan into Word and print to the Fax Printer from there.

According to their help, "From Message Manager, you can send faxes as
self-viewing email attachments, ...". So you can use Outlook to send
faxes and you can use WinFax's Message Manager to send fax attachments in
e-mails. Well, that certainly sounds like a lot of integration: Outlook
Address Book in WinFax, WinFax folders in Outlook, sending faxes from
Outlook, sending self-viewing fax attachments via e-mail from WinFax.
What other integration do you require before Winfax is considered an
product that integrates with Outlook?
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You got that right.
But at least we can help with the Microsoft fax product problems here.
 
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