[Asterisk-biz] alternative to efax needed

[Paul]

Free email/fax/voicemail services are okay for playing around and great 
for testing, but I would never use them for production needs.

Rehan Ahmed AllahWala - Super Technologies I wrote:

>You can use www.k7.net
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>we will have superfax.com doing efax, but it will be a few months
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>Rehan
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>>The only good thing I can possibly say about efax support is that it
>>is so kind of them to hire so many mentally challenged folks.
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>>I have had a $12.95/month number with them for a few years. I get less
>>than 25 faxes per month and about half of them are junk faxes. I used
>>the send feature a few times but a few months ago it stopped working
>>with firefox/linux so I just went ahead and plugged my hp all-in-one
>>into a phone line for sending.
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>>Anyway, I recently logged into the account and changed the credit card
>>on file. Because the outgoing prepay balance was below $2 they
>>attempted to charge the card $10. I kindly asked them if they could
>>just credit my usage balance 60 cents to make it $2.10 since I have no
>>intention of ever using them for sending again. The result of this is
>>a few emails explaining what I already know about the $2 threshhold
>>triggering a $10 charge. My messages to them have simply stated that
>>if they won't credit me 60 cents I will cancel the service entirely.
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>>Anybody here offering good alternatives to efax/j2? Note that local
>>DID is no longer much of a feature since nobody in US48 should be
>>paying nore than 4c these days. Security is important. The simplest
>>implementation I can think of is to only send notification email and
>>let the subscriber pick up the file via https. I actually think that
>>approach is best for SOHO voip-ers. I have seen call quality degrade
>>while emails with large attachments are arriving.
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>>There are several other things I can suggest if anybody here is
>>serious about getting into this market. I setup hylafax without
>>problems over 4 years ago. I had no problem getting it so email the
>>faxes as a pdf attachment. The only reason I did not use it for
>>production is that even with my centrex contract it did not make sense
>>to dedicate a line for a dozen faxes per month. I believe the market
>>for this type of service improves as fax usage declines.
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