Our small office would like to be able to fax daily rate sheets to client offices every morning. What would be ideal is to have a computer program automatically fax the hundreds of numbers with the .pdf files that the clients can print if they want.
Anyone know of a suggestion of a program to do this with a database of fax numbers? Thanks.
Sorry, I mean that it would of course be sending right to their fax machine, not to their email.
URRRGGH. I just remembered more. It would be nice if this could happen over the LAN / DSL instead of needing a modem on a regular fax line. Is that asking too much?
I assume they want to get you fax, as it is a crime to send unsolited faxes, and it punishable on the 1st fax - you do not have to be warned or a request to be put on a no-fax list.
It is also a crime to send a fax with out a way of indeitfying yourself.
So if you are doing this legally, you may want to check out efax.com which is a fax to email service. Also I think winfax does fax ‘broadcasting’.
Yeah, I thought there would be services that did this, but I was hoping that there would be something I could run off my own work PC. Is there nothing solid? Thanks.
Before I post a separate thread, I thought I’d ask a similar question here, if I may.
I’m having trouble with my Win2k fax program. I’ve reinstalled, et al, now I’m sick of trying to fix it and I’m looking for another FREE program that will send and receive a few faxes a month with bullet-proof ease and reliability.
Any suggestions?
Thanks verily.
Myself
A DSL connection is a data connection to the internet- a fax is a modulated audio connection transporting images. Your DSL connection has nothing to do with faxing. You also cannot speed up the sending of several hundred faxes - they run at a fixed (slow) rate (not counting retries for busy lines). Your customers may not appreciate daily faxes - they have to pay for the paper at the other end. You will probably pay an increased rate for the line you are tying up at your end - time a single fax, then multiply by the number of customers. Is there enough time in a day?
So your solution is to use a PC with a modem/fax card, a phone line and an expectation that each cycle will take a long time,
or
Use a service that will deliver your faxes to a large group of people on time, faster and possibly cheaper.
or
Use email 
Simon
Do you have any unix/linux based machines in the office?
If so, both Faximum and Del Grande LFax fax servers have command line interfaces. It would be a snap to write a script to send a daily fax to everyone on an opt-in list.
Thanks for the responses. Just to let you know, this is a small mortgage bank, and faxing daily rate sheets is SOP in the industry. It’s hard to imagine any broker complaining about having another price to compare for his loans, so that’s why the high number of faxes, every day.
I’ve talked to Black Ice and Symantec, and they tell me the same things you have. We may have to outsource the faxing to the people who won’t take an email.
Larry Mudd - Even if you had this computer and script, would this still take 15 some hours to send over a thousand pages? I see your point (I think), but this still would be limited to the receiving speed at the other end, right? Or could somehow this computer be sending to many fax machines in parallel, thus speeding up the overall transmission?