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[*] posted on 11-13-2005 at 05:06 PM
Free faxing w/e-mail


The Vonage thread got me to thinking about how far communication in baja has come in the past 10 years.

Recently I was trying to find a simple way to send fax's and found this.

Many of us have tried different simple free methods to send faxes over our satellie connection or any connection really, for instance e-fax.com the free version of which limits you to 20 faxes per month for example. Which is probably plenty but I have just discovered the coolest way to send a simple fax with your e-mail software to almost any tel# in the world.

It really works and is super simple.

To send a more complicated fax with fonts and graphics there is a little software client you need to load but the method as described below works perfectly fine for a simple quick fax just as is.

To send your fax via e-mail, start your mail software and compose a new e-mail message.

The Address Format:
remote-printer.recipient_name@fax_number.iddd.tpc.int

"recipient_name" Use the name of the recipient you wish to have on the coversheet. The character '_' is converted to a space The character '/' is converted to start a new line.

"fax_number" Do not use long distance and international access codes Begin with country code (1=USA, 44=UK, etc) Strip out punctuation characters Maximum number of digits is 15


An example:
remote-printer.Arlington_Hewes/Room_403@14959682590.iddd.tpc.int

This will send a fax to the number 495-968-2590 (the first '1' at in the fax number is the country code for the USA) The coversheet will look like this:

Please deliver to:
Arlington Hewes
Room 403

The message content of the e-mail follows on separate pages of the fax transmission. An e-mail message will be sent back to you confirming the fax was sent, or information about any problems.

Another example:
remote-printer.Darren_Nickerson/Room_403@441813434622.iddd.tpc.int

Note the use of "44" for the UK Country code. This address will send a fax to +44-1813434622, with the name "Darren Nickerson" and "Room 403"
on the coverpage. If you need assistance with international country codes, this website has a complete country code list; http://www.tpc.int/servers/iddd.html


Tip: this type of e-mail to fax will generate pages aproximatly 80 characters wide using 11 point courier font. Ascii graphics and special characters may or may not look correct when faxed. Keep your text simple.

You can get more info on sending fancy faxes with this free utility;

http://www.tpc.int/clients/index.html

If you want to learn more about this interesting free project that provides almost global coverage check this out:
http://www.tpc.int/faq/history.html

You can check coverage of a particular faxtel# here:
http://www.tpc.int/verify.html




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[*] posted on 11-13-2005 at 05:33 PM


No idea.....probably some naked liberal college professors.:biggrin:



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[*] posted on 11-14-2005 at 12:42 AM
That's some 'cool' info....


I tried to send one to my fax at work, without sucess...seems they don't have all area codes covered in the US, and of course, mine (209) is not covered!

Lots of good info on that website you listed...thanks.




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[*] posted on 11-14-2005 at 06:45 AM


Yes it is unfortunate that not all area codes are covered but considering the service is free and all you need is a way to send e-mail it is quite amazing that it works at all.

It is amazing what you can find on the internet fartin around late at night.




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[*] posted on 11-15-2005 at 06:32 PM


Keep fartin around
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