Windows Fax Server/Client Application

Question

I'm currently looking for a fax solution for a small business. Basically we need users to be able to send/receive faxes from their desktop. Ideally users could have their own numbers and receive faxes directed at them right at their desktops. Does anyone have any recommendations for this? I know there is the ever-popular Hylafax, but I don't have much time to implement this. I have been looking at Snappy Fax, but I'm not sure if it supports receiving directly to the user's clients (waiting for sales to get back to me.

Answer 1

There's always eFax.

http://www.efax.com/products/internet-fax

Answer 2

https://serverfault.com/questions/1995/free-fax-client-recommendation

Everybody loves free. But then again, you don't get as much support...

Answer 3

If you're in the market for a new server, then Windows Small Server Business has a pretty decent fax server built in. In the SBS 2003 R2 version (which is what we run), incoming faxes can be routed to a single email address, a SharePoint library, a file folder and/or directly to a printer.

Recently, I've been evaluating GFI FAXMaker and it seems like a good choice if you're needing more features and customization out of your fax server. I think its most useful features are its extensive routing capabilities, saving fax attachments as either TIF or PDF (SBS only does TIF), half decent Fax OCR (text is saved as email text body but not embedded in PDFs. grrr...), and better fax archiving. If you don't have SBS, the a single line, single user license of FAXMaker is a painless $109.