On Saturday 26 August 2006 17:31, James Knott wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 10:49 AM 8/26/2006 -0400, Paul Abrahams wrote:
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What software do folks recommend for sending faxes? I don't need to receive them. I'm running KDE and SuSE 10.0. I actually have two modems: an external USR one, which I'd prefer not to use if I don't have to, and an internal PCTel one, which I have yet to get working properly (see my other thread).
And on the same subject: what do I need to do to set up the modem for this function? The Yast facility for configuring a modem seems to assume that
the
modem is being used to contact an ISP, which is not the case in my situation.
Paul
On a similar note, and perhaps to solve the problem above, is there any way to send a FAX thru the Internet? If so, how?
--doug
Well, you could alway email a PDF. I rarely use fax these days, as PDFs are so much easier.
I thought I answered the OP's exact question rather well. Sendfax has been deprecated for sometime in favor of hylafax. hylafax just does faxes, period. It can be trivial to setup, especially about the third time you do it after you've learned it all. And if I'm not mistaken, which I may be in this case because IANAL, faxes are a legal instrument in a court of law whereas emails or PDFs don't carry the same weight in court. I refer to US Law. The fax protocol verifies an exact duplicate of the graphic sent, date and time stamps, sender and receiver, etc and more important, has been established in case law in the US. For example, stock trades can't be left on voice mail, they have to have a way to verify a signature and fax fits that. Not sure about a PDF within an email for stock trades. So far, I didn't think any protocol had been established via email/PDF/etc that had the same weight as a fax - in court. I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong! :) Stan