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You are limited to creating fax envelopes with tag files, batch files or XML-F.

This is a "blind send." Therefore:

Fax status and notifications are not available

If errors occur, your fax won't be sent and you will not receive any notification whatsoever that this occurred

Ways to create fax envelopes

Tag files Create an ASCII text file containing tag statements, then copy or move this "tag file" to the fax server

autosend directory ($VSIFAX/autosend).

Batch files Batch files are similar to tag files, but only appropriate when you want to send multiple personalized

faxes to multiple recipients.

Batch files are divided into sections. A common section contains information sent to all recipients;

recipient sections contain personalized information for that fax recipient.

XML-F

documents

Create a file according to the XML-F Fax Submit DTD, then move this XML-F document to the fax

server autosend directory ($VSIFAX/autosend).

See also

If you will be creating your fax envelopes via tags, tag files, batch files, embedded tags or print-to-fax, see Using vfx

Tags.

Email-to-fax

When a fax server is networked to a mail server, you can configure a dedicated email account (typically "autofax") for

the express purpose of sending faxes. Then you can configure the fax server to periodically poll this email account.

When the fax server receives email messages at the "autofax" account, it assumes that they are faxes waiting to be

sent and processes the email messages accordingly.

Advantages

Excellent choice for situations where you do not have a network connection to the fax server or have access to the

fax server file system but do have an email connection to the fax server via a POP3 mail gateway.

Disadvantages

Your application must be able to send an email message.

You must have an incoming (POP3) Internet mail server, and it must be networked to the fax server.

Ways to create fax envelopes

message

If you include a valid fax number or email address on the subject line, the fax server assumes that the

remainder of the email message (including any file attachments) is the fax content.

The syntax for including a fax number in the email subject line is:

<fax_number>[<subject_text>]

Where <fax_number> is a valid fax number of Internet email address and <subject_text> is

optional subject line text.

Tag and

batch files

If you do not include a valid fax number or email address on the subject line, the fax server assumes

that the remainder of the email message is a tag or batch file.