send a fax from your mac

In some countries, faxes can be legal documents but email attachments are not: so the fax, which some of us thought might be obsolete, will live on for a while yet. This neat app lets you send a fax from your computer attached to the internet to any phone line number with an attached fax machine (or another computer pretending to be one).

Caught with an unexpected and urgent fax to send and our office closed (and who can operate an old steam-powered fax any more?), this app was a godsend. The app is free, but sending a fax (which has to be switched from the internet to the phone lines system) understandably requires a charge as someone has to pay for the phone lines rental. The cost per fax is reasonable if you buy a package. The software works well. You set up the phone number you are faxing to, a note giving the reciptent, some flexible sender info, an optional cover sheet and then attach the PDF you want to fax (it will also send word, excel or tiff files). My urgent fax failed to send the first time, but went through successfuly a few hours later. The system tells you this very neatly, both on a panel in the fax software and by email.

There might be a limit on the size of the PDF attachment: if so, maybe this could be noted in the user guide onscreen).

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