Topic: fax through email?

[matthew]

Hi every-one

i was wondering if anyone here knows of a way to send a fax with an email client like outlook express or outlook.

i have come across a site (TPC) where you can do this, but there is currently no supported servers in south africa (western province)

the only way i can send faxes via email, is by setting up a TPC server myself, for the western cape.
but before i do this i wanted to know if anybody knows any other way to do this.
the whole point of this is to cut down phone expenses for clients.
and also the clients that have an ADSL line.

the TPC web site is: http://www.tpc.int/
if anyone is interested.

thanks

[matthew]

umm if somebody could tell me if the software there will work with sme, pls let me know

[Jan]

Maby searching for hylafax will help you.

/Jan

[matthew]

yes i thought of that, see the thing is that, the fax mustn't go through a phone line but over the internet.
with the TPC it binds hylafax and sendmail, to work together.

[Joao Bento]

Try here:
http://home.efax.com/s/r/eFaxHomepage

[guestHH]

This one is verified to work:

http://www.vangee.nl/sme/hylafax/

[matthew]

ok kewl, that site is just what im looking for thanks...

the next this i needed to ask is about vpn with adsl,
is it possible with the static ip address, and how would i get the server to sme boxes to find each other with the dynamically assigned ip address'? my external ip changes like every 24 hour or so.

[Luismor]

I dont Know if e-smith can make an Ipsec Tunnel with a dynamic IP, but ipcop does (www.ipcop.org, ipcop.hopto.org).
For e-smith try contribs.org

You have to set up an account at no-ip.org, dyndns.org or some similar. They have dynamic DNS: You have a name "you.no-ip.org" associated with your IP "X.X.X.X". You download a software that everytime your IP changes, this soft changes the A register in the DNS so everyone can find you always. While you are configuring your VPN you can fill the dns names "you.no-ip.org" and "othe.no-ip.org" in stead the IP´s. (not quite clear, sorry)
IPcop has included a client for many dynamic dns services.

Luismor
Pd: those DNS services are free!

[Joao Bento]

How to configure the faxmail script to be able to send a FAX from outside ? recipient would be in the format

user@host_nb.fax.mydomain