Hi

For a short time I need to use a UK email-to-fax service. Googling
brings up loads and I have nothing on which to base a choice between
them. Free is very good, cheap is acceptable, and reliable is v.
important - I need to be confident that anything sent via the service
does actually get delivered.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks ihn advance.

Pete Fotheringham

Pete Fotheringham wrote:
> Hi
> 
> For a short time I need to use a UK email-to-fax service. Googling
> brings up loads and I have nothing on which to base a choice between
> them. Free is very good, cheap is acceptable, and reliable is v.
> important - I need to be confident that anything sent via the service
> does actually get delivered.
> 
> Does anyone have any recommendations?
> 
> Thanks ihn advance.
> 
> Pete Fotheringham

Dear Pete

The aql e-mail to fax service will send you an e-mail with a delivery 
report for the fax you sent and there is a log for incoming faxes. Its 
£2 per number per month (ex-vat).

See here for Email To Fax: https://www.aql.com/telecoms/site/email2fax.php

and here for Fax to Email:
https://www.aql.com/telecoms/site/fax2email.php

Interesting thing is the geographic numbers will also accept incoming 
SMS and send it to you in an e-mail or HTTP POST.

HTH

Regards
Stephen

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:00:47 -0700 (PDT), Pete Fotheringham wrote:
> For a short time I need to use a UK email-to-fax service. Googling
[...]
> Does anyone have any recommendations?

InterFAX (http://www.interfax.net) works fine for me.


Christof

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"Pete Fotheringham"  wrote in message 
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> Hi
>
> For a short time I need to use a UK email-to-fax service. Googling
> brings up loads and I have nothing on which to base a choice between
> them. Free is very good, cheap is acceptable, and reliable is v.
> important - I need to be confident that anything sent via the service
> does actually get delivered.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations?
>
> Thanks ihn advance.
>
> Pete Fotheringham

Do you mean email to fax - it would be cheaper just to buy an old modem.

Fax to email on the other hand...

On 6 Jun, 19:57, "R. Mark Clayton" 
wrote:
>
> Do you mean email to fax - it would be cheaper just to buy an old modem.
>
I do mean email to fax. One of the people I am dealing with (who works
for a major high street bank) does not have an email address but does
have a fax number. At the moment I am printing emails and then posting
them which IMHO is a ridiculous way to operate in the 21st century.

Thanks for the replies.

I've found a service called FaxBox http://www.faxbox.com/en/home.aspx,
run by RTE which gives a free trial account allowing 30 sheets in 30
days - which is enough for my needs.

However I'm having problems getting it to work at present so I'm still
in the market for more recommendations

Regards

Pete

In news:bd54bfa7-9091-46a4-8b1c-e6fad422ed87@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com,
Pete Fotheringham  typed, for some strange, 
unexplained reason:
: On 6 Jun, 19:57, "R. Mark Clayton" 
: wrote:
: >
: > Do you mean email to fax - it would be cheaper just to buy an old
: > modem.
: >
: I do mean email to fax. One of the people I am dealing with (who works
: for a major high street bank) does not have an email address but does
: have a fax number. At the moment I am printing emails and then posting
: them which IMHO is a ridiculous way to operate in the 21st century.

Why..? I write letters by hand sometimes. It's nice to receive these as 
well, makes you aware there's a human in there somewhere.

Ivor

Pete Fotheringham  wrote:
> On 6 Jun, 19:57, "R. Mark Clayton" 
> wrote:
> >
> > Do you mean email to fax - it would be cheaper just to buy an old modem.
> >
> I do mean email to fax. One of the people I am dealing with (who works
> for a major high street bank) does not have an email address but does
> have a fax number. At the moment I am printing emails and then posting
> them which IMHO is a ridiculous way to operate in the 21st century.

I used a service called efax a few years ago which enables you to both send and
receive faxes via your PC, it worked OK but I could not justify the monthly cost
for occasional use.

My trusty inkjet printer has a fax function and is connected to the POTS line as
well as the PC, so to send a fax I just dial the number then when I hear the fax
tone I press start/copy on the printer.  

To receive faxes I use the fax to email service provided by Mistral which costs
me nothing but charges the sender a few pence.  No doubt I will get flamed by
others on this group and be accused of ripping off the sender - but hey, the
sender can either put a photocopy in an envelope and stick a postage stamp and
snailmail it to me at greater cost, or email to me direct.

In message 
, 
Pete Fotheringham  writes
>Hi
>
>For a short time I need to use a UK email-to-fax service. Googling
>brings up loads and I have nothing on which to base a choice between
>them. Free is very good, cheap is acceptable, and reliable is v.
>important - I need to be confident that anything sent via the service
>does actually get delivered.
>
>Does anyone have any recommendations?
>
http://www.tpc.int

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"Ivor Jones" <ivor@thisaddressis.invalid> wrote in message 
news:6auqvrF39hie7U1@mid.individual.net...
> In news:bd54bfa7-9091-46a4-8b1c-e6fad422ed87@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com,
> Pete Fotheringham  typed, for some strange,
> unexplained reason:
> : On 6 Jun, 19:57, "R. Mark Clayton" 
> : wrote:
> : >
> : > Do you mean email to fax - it would be cheaper just to buy an old
> : > modem.
> : >
> : I do mean email to fax. One of the people I am dealing with (who works
> : for a major high street bank) does not have an email address but does
> : have a fax number. At the moment I am printing emails and then posting
> : them which IMHO is a ridiculous way to operate in the 21st century.
>
> Why..? I write letters by hand sometimes. It's nice to receive these as
> well, makes you aware there's a human in there somewhere.
>
> Ivor
>

Well buy a modem - dirt cheap, minimal call charges unless they are on 
Inmarsat.

Thanks for the responses

tpc.int (http://www.tpc.int) does the job for me - it has the benefit
of being free and not asking for payment card details.

Oh and I've tried it and it works.

Regards

Pete

On 7 Jun, 08:17, "Ivor Jones" <i...@thisaddressis.invalid> wrote:
> Why..? I write letters by hand sometimes. It's nice to receive these as
> well, makes you aware there's a human in there somewhere.
> Ivor
I know what you mean, but in this case I am actually trying to deliver
emails where only one recipient does not have (or will not give me) an
email address. The text of the email is on my computer so I don't want
to write or print it out. I would also like him to receive the
communication in a similar time frame to the other recipients and not
have to wait for me to take a trip to the post box.

Regards

Pete