RE: flexfax: MS-Outlook as HylaFax Client

[Rob Embry <Rob.Embry@emctest.com>]

Phillip Gruenig wrote
> 
> We use Hylafax as a server and there are also some WIn95/NT Users
> with outlook. on all MS-clients we've installed the Ghostscrip/GSview
> Postscripviewer. the faxes will arrive as postscript attachement in an
> email to outlook. The attachement can then be viewed with GSview.
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
> 
> 
> For sending faxes on Win95/NT we use the whfc fax/printerdriver.
>  http://www.transcom.de/whfc 
>  
> 
> Florian Pahl wrote:
> > 
> > I would like to use HylaFax as a Fax Server, but there are several
> > People here that use Windows 95 and would like to see there faxes
> > in the MS-Outlook Programm.
> > As far as I know MS-Outlook is keeping all Mails, Faxes etc. in a
> > special File Format and you need something there called "Service" to
> > import your faxes into Outlook...
> > Does anybody know how this can be done easily, or has 
> anybody already
> > written such a "Service", or am I totally wrong at all about that??

A better way to do this is to leave the inbound fax as a tiff file and
use the mimencode program to add it as a mime attachment to the delivery
notification email.  It arrives in Outlook as an attached tiff file
which the Windows imaging file reads.  The only kludge is that, unless
you have DID or some other mechanism for auto-routing of faxes, you have
to mail it to someone who views the files and manually dispatches them
to their ultimate destination.

Rob Embry
EMC Test Systems
Austin, TX