Lee Marzke on 27 Aug 2010 09:42:19 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Free Inbound Fax Service?


On 08/26/2010 04:01 PM, bergman@merctech.com wrote:
The pithy ruminations from Chris Nehren<c.nehren/plug@shadowcat.co.uk>  on "Re: [PLUG] Free Inbound Fax Service?" were:

=>  On Aug 26, 2010, at 11:18 AM, bergman@merctech.com wrote:
=>
=>  >  The pithy ruminations from Casey Bralla<MailList@nerdworld.org>  on "[PLUG] Free Inbound Fax Service?" were:
=>  >
=>  >  =>  Anybody know of a free inbound fax service?   I see there are tons of paid
=>  >  =>  services, but I was hoping for a free service for inbound use only.
=>  >
=>  >  I assume you're talking about an inbound fax=>email gateway.
=>  >
=>  >  I've been using eFax for about 6~8 years. [...]
=>
=>  Is http://www.efax.com/efax-free the service you've been using? They hid it pretty well on their Web site. That said, it does look to satisfy Casey's requirement--and mine, should I ever need this. Thanks!

Yes, that's it.

From the above site, it appears that this really costs $16.95 per month after the initial 30 day free trial, so this isn't
really free is it ?

I use vitelity.net which provides inbound/outbound virtual fax for $3/month + 3c/min. Which is pretty close to free, they also do asterisk VOIP trunks and generic SIP accounts. I also have gotten no
junk or spam faxes on this account.

I'm getting close to dumping my landline, and I've found that my fax machine a MFC9840CDW can send faxes automatically to vitelity's email/fax gateway , so you still enter the phone number normally and fax the same way as usual, and it goes out via email to the gateway. This is a lot more convenient than scanning in and
manually uploading to a web page.

Lee


=>
=>  >
=>  >  I've got high hopes that google voice will begin to receive inbound faxes.
=>
=>  I would think outbound is far more useful to people. How many times have you needed to send a fax to a government or other organization stuck in the 1970s?
=>


Yeah, I send faxes more frequently than I receive them....but it's easy to find a corner shop/copy center/office where I can send a fax[*], but I wouldn't necessarily want anything personal sent to me at those addresses.


Has anyone used the old tpc.int "sendfax" service recently (yes, there is a TLD named ".int", and yes, the "tpc" stands for "The Phone Company"...and amazingly enough, they've got a Philadelphia connection). Chris' UK email address reminded me of "sendfax". When I was doing more stuff overseas, I had much more frequent need to send faxes...and found the free "sendfax" (email -->  volunteer physically "local" to the fax destination, running gateway software that sends the email via a local fax call) service to be very helpful. I haven't used it in years.

See:
	http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html
	

Thanks,

Mark

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