Re: unable to fax due to Fax board hardware problem? time for a new fax card?

Eric,

I've been out of the Faxing for Fun & Profit game for a long time now, but
the more important question will be if Right Fax can handle a different fax
card and/or one installed in your iSeries.

Some proprietary fax systems are written & designed for a very few kinds of
fax boards.

For example, the Fax/400 by Support Net system only used a dongle type fax
boards that connected to the AS/400 via a serial port.

Fax Server/401 also by Support Net used a "smart" fax card that is no
longer available, the model & make I can't remember, installed the PC
Server.

Unifier, from Cornerstone Communications, used most of the entire line of
Brooktrout cards.

Why do I know all of this? Because I wrote all of those products (except
Fax/400). And since I'm well out of my non-compete, non-comment, keep my
mouth shut contract clauses, I'll fess up <g>

Bob Crothers
www.BJsBariatrics.Com
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Roger Harman <roger_harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I assume you're talking outbound only, correct?

Why not use a service like fax.com??


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Lehti
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: unable to fax due to Fax board hardware problem? time for a new
fax
card?

In the past few minutes our network faxing went down, possibly due to the
fax board having a hardware problem.



We are engaging RightFax tech support to analyze the situation.

The fax board is on our Windows server that hosts our MS Exchange email.



If our fax board actually is unusable and we have to purchase a new fax
board, are there any fax cards that attach to a Power 720 Express model
8202-E4C instead of to a Windows server? I wonder if there would be an
advantage to faxing from our IBM i?





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