how to set up a mail to fax gateway?

[the_nerd]

a customer of mine has to react AT ONCE when an email comes in.

His solution: routing the email to a provider who forwards the email to his fax machine. I tried to convince him to simply auto-retrieve his email every other minute and let windows blow a big whistle when something comes in. But he wants the fax. I told him to get a blackberry-type-of-device. But he wants his fax.

What kind of software do I need to forward an email to a fax machine? Some extension to MS Exchange?

[Essex_boy]

There are sites out there that do this.

[the_nerd]

I realised that - but he wants to keep the couple 1000 $ he shells out yearly for himself. That's why I'm trying to find out how to do it.

[Fenceman]

What email client does he use? If Outlook, how about setting up a rule that sends all received emails to the printer?

[vrtlw]

GFI have a product that should do the trick if that is really the route you want to go.

[Raymond]

Try the winfax SDK. You can write your own pop3 client and develop a function to fax out everything, or some preselected mail.

You can easily get a decent C++ programmer to make you one for less than $1000. There are some premade mail clients out there, you just have to fix it up with the SDK.