How Fax to Email Services Work

2007-03-08 10:33:40

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Fax to email services is a convenient way to receive and send faxes without the aid of a fax machine. Fax to email services eliminates paper jams, receiving cut off messages, or having to refax your message due to a busy tone. Owning a fax machine means that you need to purchase fax paper, ink cartridges and obtain a separate phone line to make your fax machine function. Using fax to email services costs less, because the expense of buying fax machine supplies is eliminated.

To be able to send and receive faxes, you need an email account and access to the Internet. The faxes that you receive or send come in the form of attachments to your email, or appear as a normal fax message. There are certain companies that provide fax to email services for free, while others charge a monthly service fee for the service depending on the type of services you require.

To send a fax message, you need to make use of your email account, and compose a message. You provide the fax number of the sender on the field that says the word to, followed by the symbol @, and then the Internet fax service name after it. The name of the recipient is then placed on the subject field of your compose mail page. Once the message is sent, the recipient either receives the message that you have sent through the traditional fax machine, or through electronic means if registered under an Internet fax service.

A special computer software tool is normally downloaded by fax to email services onto your computer’s toolbox that act as a plug-in inside your email account, so that you can receive faxes. Individuals that send fax messages need to use a toll free number that is supplied to you by the company that provides you fax to email services. Once a fax message is received, the software tool converts the received message into email format, so that you are able to read the messages through email.

If the above information has convinced you to avail of fax to email services, you should use the Internet to look for companies that supply this service, and make a comparison between different companies before committing yourself to a single fax broadcasting service.


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