The best solution is a hardware faxserver. Castelle makes a SBE for small offices that runs on a TCP/IP or Netware network. It has addons for Exchange server so that the faxes can be routed as emails. There is an SDK that is applicable to VFP. You can also access it as a printer driver. It has phone books, auditing, archiveing all native. Without addons I believe that it runs about $1500. It has been a rock solid solution for me for several years.

>Hi there,
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>I'm in the process of automatizing an office and I need for my app to send and receive faxes. These are my questions:
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>FAXING
>1) I would like to implement a fax server. Basically my app creates fax records and I throw those records over to a fax server. I would like to receive back from the server a status(success, failed,etc) for each fax that is sent so I can record it in the database.
> - What tools/software do you guys recommend to do this?
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>2) Incoming faxes. This gets more tricky. Basically there will be about 6 people receiving faxes and some faxes are just faxes that they need to look at and others are faxes that need to be stored in a database. I guess I can have a central repository of faxes that get routed to each user as a fax image or maybe each machine gets the fax directly?
> - What type of setup/software do you guys recommend to do this?
> - Is it better to store the image in the database or store the directory where the image is located?
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>Thanks!