RE: flexfax: Clients for Hylafax

["David Griffiths" <dave@techtiks.co.uk>]

I've set up OUTLOOK to do quite a good job of receiving faxes. I'm looking
in to being able to send faxes, but at the moment it looks like code will
have to be written - an alternative is to create an e-mail message in
Outlook and then print the message to WHFC, this will give you a nice cover
page type header to your message.

For receiving, I have created a Faxes Folder, and created a Rule to
automatically place all received faxes from my Linux box into this folder.
On the Linux box I have modified the jobrecv script to include the file as a
TIFF file to the e-mail notification. (You can do this by first using GS to
convert the picture to a TIF or any other format that you may prefer, and
then pipe it through a MIME encoder program).  On the Windows clients, I
have associated TIFF Files with Windows Imaging which comes with Win
95oem2,98 and NT 4, This is a very good program for handling Fax Images.  If
youonly have Win95 version 1, then you can download Windows Imaging from
www.eastmansoftware.com.

When I have some spare time I am going to try to integrate the Windows
Imaging program into Outlook so that Faxes are viewable in a similar way to
HTML e-mails are now. (all the Imaging is done using ActiveX controls so you
can easily include them, even scanning into your own programs).

Hope this helps,

Dave Griffiths.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-flexfax@celestial.com [mailto:owner-flexfax@celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Schütz Susanne Dipl.Ing.
> Sent: 03 February 1999 14:12
> To: flexfax@sgi.com
> Subject: flexfax: Clients for Hylafax
>
>
> We currently use WHFC as windows client.
>
> Is it possible to use widly known Programms (such as Outlook, Lotus
> Notes) as PC-clients for Hylafax? Has anybody tried this?
>
> We would like to use only one programm for mail and fax.
>
> mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Dipl.Ing. Susanne Schütz
> Leiter EDV
> Schenker & Co AG Wien
>