Re: [SLE] Recommended software for sending faxes

Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Saturday 26 August 2006 17:31, James Knott wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 10:49 AM 8/26/2006 -0400, Paul Abrahams wrote:
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What software do folks recommend for sending faxes? I don't need to
receive them. I'm running KDE and SuSE 10.0. I actually have two
modems: an external USR one, which I'd prefer not to use if I don't
have to, and an internal PCTel one, which I have yet to get working
properly (see my other thread).

And on the same subject: what do I need to do to set up the modem for
this function? The Yast facility for configuring a modem seems to
assume that
the

modem is being used to contact an ISP, which is not the case in my
situation.

Paul
On a similar note, and perhaps to solve the problem above, is there any
way to send a FAX thru the Internet? If so, how?

--doug
Well, you could alway email a PDF. I rarely use fax these days, as PDFs
are so much easier.

I thought I answered the OP's exact question rather well. Sendfax has been
deprecated for sometime in favor of hylafax. hylafax just does faxes,
period. It can be trivial to setup, especially about the third time you do
it after you've learned it all.

It seems that every time I want to send a fax, I have to reinstall the
software, because I've upgraded distros since the last time I sent a
fax. ;-)


And if I'm not mistaken, which I may be in this case because IANAL, faxes
are a legal instrument in a court of law whereas emails or PDFs don't carry
the same weight in court. I refer to US Law. The fax protocol verifies an
exact duplicate of the graphic sent, date and time stamps, sender and
receiver, etc and more important, has been established in case law in the
US.

For example, stock trades can't be left on voice mail, they have to have a
way to verify a signature and fax fits that. Not sure about a PDF within an
email for stock trades.

So far, I didn't think any protocol had been established via email/PDF/etc
that had the same weight as a fax - in court.

I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong! :)

In Canada, a digitally signed email is also legal document.



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