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After furious head scratching, Ian Jenkins, MCSD asked:
| I understand it takes a lot of man hours to create the backend
| application. However, what I am most interested in is the coding
| involved on the client side, specifically, with Microsoft Office 2003.
| I want to know what needs to be done to windows specifically to take
| advantage of the Send To > Internet Fax... menu option.
|
| Thanks
|
|
| Fax Buddy wrote:
|| Mr. Jenkins, if I understand correctly you want to offer an Internet
|| based fax service to your clients.
||
|| At Global Access, Inc. we developed and are continously improving our
|| OnLine Fax(tm) software and service since 1996. The Internet Fax
|| application you describe would need to be programmed using .net or
|| some other software development language. Let me describe how our
|| service works so you'll be better equipped as you plan your project.
||
|| There are two parts to our fax service, the server and the client
|| software, each has thousands of man hours invested in its
|| development. Most such services work with one or multiple servers
|| located in a central datacenter which receives traditional fax
|| documents turning them into digital files, in our case Adobe PDFs,
|| then delivering to the user/clients email inbox. Likewise, when a
|| user/client sends a fax, the digital document and routing
|| information is transmitted from the desktop computer via the
|| Internet to the server(s), which immediately converts it to a
|| traditional fax, dials the recipients number and sends the document
|| to their fax machine. The concept works just like having a fax
|| server in a business, but instead of connecting desktop computers to
|| the server by a LAN, they're connected by the Internet. Using the
|| Internet for connectivity gives us the ability to have users
|| anywhere in the world that has Internet access. For the user, all
|| that's necessary to begin OnLine Faxing is our software installed on
|| their computer(s) and an email address. Presto! They're faxing in a
|| few minutes.
||
|| I would be glad to answer any additional questions you have. Our web
|| site may also help
www.onlinefax.com.
||
|| Regards,
|| Walter
||
|| Ian Jenkins, MCSD wrote:
||| Our company is looking at becoming a fax services provider. We want
||| clients to be able to send faxes through outlook and the rest of
||| Microsoft Office. I notice if you go to New > Internet Fax in
||| outlook it brings up a list of providers that offer this ability.
||| What is needed to be able to code an application like this? I
||| cannot find anything online about it.
|||
||| Thanks
