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Sending/Receiving Faxes as Emails in Windows

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

Anonymous said…
Hi there,

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,
2:33 PM
Juan Pablo said…
You will need a POP server, either a local one or an external one. I tested the code with my old ISP POP mail account, so it was an external server.
6:04 PM
Adam Dagan said…
Hello,
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.
4:55 AM
Juan Pablo said…
Sorry about not getting back to you earlier, I will do my best to reproduce and fix the issue this week. Thank you.
6:36 PM
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