Technical information
INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION GUIDE
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Outbound fax The outbound fax log maintains a detailed record of each sent fax request.
Functional overview
This section briefly describes how VSI-FAX sends, receives, and routes faxes and how it send email messages.
Sending faxes
One of the primary design goals of VSI-FAX is to provide as many reliable ways as possible to send a fax. You can
send a fax by logging on to the fax server and entering information in a command shell, by sending an email
message to the fax server, by placing a file in the autosend directory, or via one of our graphical fax clients. This
figure shows the various ways you can send faxes with VSI-FAX:
Email
VSI-FAX provides an Email-to-Fax Gateway feature that allows you send faxes via email to the fax server, following
these steps:
1. Create a new email user account on your corporate mail server (we recommend that you use autofax for this
user account).
2. Enter the fax recipient information in a specific format (i.e., <fax_number> or <fax_number>[subject]) in
your email message subject line.
3. Send your fax email messages to autofax@my_company.com.
LanFax Windows Client