[conspire] receive faxes via email

[Eric De Mund]

All,

Well, my free efax.com fax number that I set up in 2008 expired, and so
I needed set up a new one. I rarely get faxes, but seeing as I'm con-
ducting a job hunt and don't own a fax machine, nor a landline, I want
to be able to receive them should I need to.

It turns out that that is still possible with efax.com:

    eFax Free Account (hidden web page)
    http://www.efax.com/efax-free

Messages are emailed to you in the proprietary .efx format, but:

1.  One can also view them in one's (graphical) browser at the efax.com
    "Message Center":

    eFax Message Center
    https://www.efax.com/en/efax/emf/getStorageMessagesFr

and:

2.  One can find an old but still perfectly functional version of
    efaxviewer.exe at:

    What's an EFX file and how do I open one?
    http://freewarewiki.com/EfaxViewer
    http://freewarewiki.com/f/efaxviewer.exe

    Which works perfectly well under wine-1.0.1-174-gc4039bd under
    Debian 5.0 testing. This is an installer which installs eFaxView.exe
    [eFax Messenger Version 2.0 (Build 7)] under
    $HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/, or your equivalent.

To test this fax->email setup, one can use the free email->fax service
at faxZERO:

    faxZERO - Send a fax for free
    http://faxzero.com/

, which I learned of from Kevin Savetz's still extant FAQ:

    FAQ: How can I send a fax from the Internet?
    http://www.savetz.com/fax/

I would have used TPC's venerable remote printing service:

    The Phone Company's Remote Printing Service
    http://www.tpc.int/

, but my new efax.com fax number wasn't in their coverage area.

Info forwarded FYI. If anyone has any cleaner or better solutions to
this problem, I'm all ears.

Eric
--
"It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance." --Charles Darwin

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