Sending Faxes
Using Outlook Direct to send a fax message requires that you address your email to the recipient's fax number, rather than the email address. You may either address your fax messages using the Business Fax entries from your Contacts list, or you may address faxes by manually entering the recipient's fax number.
Receiving Faxes
The FaxPress Outlook Direct transport periodically polls the FaxPress queues for incoming faxes and will notify the user of faxes received on the FaxPress. If your telephone system employs an automatic DTMF, DID or assigned line routing that provides each user with a personal fax number, the transport will send an email notice to the user when a new fax is found in their fax mailbox. The fax can either be converted to DCX format and attached to the email notice, or viewed from Faxmain. Your FaxPress transport's Incoming Faxes dialog box allows you to configure the email notices to be received with or without the fax attached, specify the number of notices the transport can send in a specified amount of time, and allow you to print or forward incoming faxes. If your network does not employ automatic DTMF, DID or assigned line routing, all incoming faxes will be stored in the FaxPress Unaddressed Mailbox. The administrator then assigns a router, operator, or user with supervisor privileges to route the unaddressed faxes to the appropriate client mailbox.
Advantages
Outlook Direct unifies fax and email environments, allowing faxes to be sent and received directly from the Outlook client. Users can attach multiple files to a single fax message, or send one fax message to both email and fax recipients simultaneously. With Outlook Direct, faxing is as simple as sending and receiving email.
Outlook Direct vs. Exchange Connector and Native Attachment Gateway
The client based Outlook Direct offers ideal fax and email integration for small office environments. Able to operate independently of an Exchange server, Outlook Direct requires only simple workstation installations of the FaxPress client software in order to use the FaxPress server.
The server based FaxPress Exchange Connector and Native Attachment Gateway also offers email integration, but requires an Exchange server to operate. With no client side installation required, the Exchange Connector and Native Attachment Gateway is ideal for larger offices with an Exchange server and a large number of users.
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