[thelist] open source fax suite?

[Simon Perry]

brian cummiskey wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> My office is currently running an ancient version of Faxfacts on a 300 
> mhz NT 4.1 box.  It's a dog, and our ever increasing faxing from a 
> mail-merge (word doc) is making the process twice as long.
>
> Basically, the software installs as a printer.  The word/fax doc is 
> made and then is mail merged with XXXX records from the DB file.  
> Then, we merge to printer, and select the "Copia" driver, that is our 
> fax box.
>
> We called, and our service contract went up last year, and they want 
> about $1000 to simply upgrade us to a 2k box with more ram/cpu power.
>
> I offered to look for an open source solution.  With nothing looking 
> like it does the same thing with a search on sourceforge or google, 
> i've come here.
>
> Platform is not too picky, as we have both linux and windows servers 
> here-  but the front end/driver must be a win 32 client.
>
> any suggestions, please link me :)
>
>
Hylafax http://www.hylafax.org/ or the commercial offering based on it 
from http://www.ifax.com should be able to be made to do what you want. 
There are various different clients that will offer the fax as a printer 
driver see;
http://wiki.ifax.com/tiki-index.php?page=ClientSoftware

Simon