The SMTP Fax Gateway enables users and
applications to send and receive faxes via email. The SMTP gateway application works
in conjunction with the Microsoft
SMTP service, which is installed as part of Microsoft’s Internet Information
Services (IIS) running on Windows 2000 and 2003 systems.
The SMTP Fax Gateway enables your users to send and receive
faxes just as easily as they send and receive email messages.
Users can launch a new mail message, attach documents in
their native file format and address the email message
to fax and email recipients. Fax messages can also be initiated
from within an application by printing to the Biscom Fax
Printer. Completion status messages indicating success
or failure of each fax job, with detailed explanations,
are returned to your users as mail messages. Messages can
be addressed manually using the standard T.37 addressing
syntax, or addresses can be retrieved from Outlook Contacts
using the Outlook client extensions' component.
Received faxes are delivered to users as email messages.
Users can receive the fax as a TIFF or PDF attachment,
or they can receive an email message alerting them of a
received fax and providing them with a UNC location where
they can retrieve the fax.
Features:
- Enables users to perform fax functions from their familiar
email client
- No other client software required
- Provides centralized administration via the Microsoft
Management Console (MMC)
- Enabled you to take advantage of the integration with Active Directory
- without being required to extend the schema
- No separate fax user list required
- Applications can submit faxes programmatically via
SMTP
Directory Integration
The SMTP Fax Gateway is a component of the FAXCOM Suite
for Windows application. FAXCOM Suite for Windows works
with any LDAP-compatible directory service - without requiring
any extensions to your schema - including, Active Directory (AD),
Exchange 5.5, Domino, Netscape, and NDS. Because it is
fully integrated with Active Directory, any user for
whom an account exists in AD can send and receive faxes
without the requirement that you maintain a separate fax
service user list. You can then create policies that further
refine fax service user behavior.
MMC Snap-In
Administrators can use the familiar Microsoft administration
tool to configure all aspects of the SMTP Fax Gateway.
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