It gives users instant access to email-to-fax and fax-to-email functionality, allowing users to send, receive, and manage faxes from their desktops, in the programs they are already familiar with, meaning they can spend more time on high value tasks and less time in line at the fax machine.

With the email gateways, familiar email commands are used to create, address, and send faxes, making fax messaging as simple as emailing. Attachments are rendered into fax file format for most applications, allowing attached files to be sent to fax and email recipients simultaneously. The email gateways' fax features are available to both local and offsite FaxPress users and all email gateways can be configured for automatic inbound fax routing or fax notification via email.

Integrating Fax Appliance with Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010 

The Exchange Connector allows you to use your Exchange global address book for faxing and to use Exchange administrative tools without needing to install the Express client software. Your company's administrative staff gains the benefit of centralized user management and your users the efficiency of a unified fax and email environment. The Exchange Connector works with your Exchange and Express servers to enable:  

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• Inbound and outbound faxing through Exchange
• Synchronizing of the Fax Appliance and Exchange user databases        
• Quick deployment of network faxing with no client software to install      
• Centralized email and fax administration with Exchange Administration utility   
• Exchange and Express user synchronization allows inbound fax routing  
• Quick deployment of fax functionality to an Exchange environment (No new software required on client platform) 
• Clients are presented with a familiar client interface allowing faxes to be created and sent as easily as sending an email   
• Exchange Phonebook and contact list integration         
• Fax Appliance address template for easy one-off faxing         
• Fax success and failure alert notification         
• Ability to delay fax option by fax scheduling 
• Bill-back code option

Integrating with SMTP Email Systems

The Express SMTP Gateway enables users of virtually any email system to send and receive faxes. It runs as a service on a Windows workstation or server and appears as an SMTP email server on the network, e.g.,  "fax.company.com". When a user wants to send a fax via email, they address the email as:  faxnumber@fax.company.com.

The Fax Appliance SMTP Gateway has been tested in Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, and Novell GroupWise environments.  It has proven to be a very reliable alternative to dedicated email connectors, especially since it does not run on the email server. Attachments are rendered into fax documents using the Express native attachment rendering mechanism.