Most Fax server software allows you to send/receive faxes through email. While looking at the alternatives, I could not find any free, Windows based solution that suited my needs. Most of the software I looked at requires you to have a dedicated smtp server or DNS settings in your local network. I developed Email-to-Fax Server to work with an already established SMTP and POP server (it requires an email account) and decided to make it open sourced at CodePlex.
Email-to-Fax Server’s foundation is the excellent Fax .NET library. The program is developed in C# and uses the internal Windows's Fax services as its foundation.
Email-to-Fax Server is a windows application that does the following:
- Sends email attachments as faxes.
- Sends faxes received as email attachments to a specified address or addresses.
It obtains emails from a POP email account and sends the emails' attachments as faxes to the fax number specified in the subject line. It uses a SMTP account to send faxes received in the windows machine as email attachments. The user can configure the server using a standard Spring.NET xml configuration file.
If you are looking for an application that allows you to send or receive faxes through email, go to Email-to-Fax’s site here and download a copy of it.
Comments
What you have done is amazing and many thanks for this effort and making this work as open source. One thing that I'm confused about, Do I need to install a POP server to enable your integration?
Many thanks,
I apologize for commenting on such an old post, but I would be very glad if you could have a look at the following:
http://emailtofax.codeplex.com/discussions/354210
Seems like your software is the only one I could find (both free and paid) to do this simple task.
Thanks in advance, Adam.