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

[Bob Crothers <bob.crothers@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
>
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> We are engaging RightFax tech support to analyze the situation.
>
> The fax board is on our Windows server that hosts our MS Exchange email.
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>
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> 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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