Developing a fax server

Dear all,
I am told to develop a fay server and have read that some protocol named T.30 is used for this implementation. But I couldnt get enough information about this protocol to keep going with my work on this. It would be really helpful if u could give me some links about faxing, protocols etc..etc.. Thanks for your time and help..
regards Stallon

Use www.google.com and search for "T.30" and
"Procedures for document facsimile transmission in the general switched telephone network"
And presumably you already know that getting that document might require money, perhaps significant amounts of money, as telecom standards often do.
Presumably you are building a fax machine or creating a driver interface for it (which I wouldn't suggest java for.)
If on the other hand you are creating code to access a fax machine/system from vendor then the system interface would be more helpful.

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I have been scouring these discussion boards for some time now looking for a suitable substitute to PageSender, an awesome fax solution for the Mac from SmileOnMyMac LLC, which for some inexplicable reason stopped development and updates after OS 10.6.8. The result is that many small business office users who still rely on fax (and yes...no matter what they tell you, most of the business world DOES still use fax because it's legally binding and more secure than email for the transmission of legal documents or healthcare records, and does not rely on database integration accross different systems, which is sadly but very realistically still a long ways off), and no longer have a way to integrate faxes into a paperless or digital workflow office system.
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Even if you have a USB modem or multifunction printer that allows you to recieve a Fax to your desktop (Apple's internal fax via printer preferences, and some HP models like the HP MFP 127fw) for example will allow you to recieve a Fax to a desktop folder or forward to a single email address. But the former is of limited functionaliy and the later only lets you send to an email address out over the internet with a registered public domain, which means you give up all control of privacy and means you can't process it through a private mail server to create a digital workflow for your office...
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I am happy to report that I have finally discovered a very easy and useable feature that will save a lot of time, money, and headaches for those looking to create a digital workflow and fax server system for a small office system. (I don't think there is any limit to scale here, but I suspect offices with more than 10 employees probably have a BizHub, or HP MFP/digital sender that can create the same process directly from the printer, but of course these come with a price tag of $2000 and up...).
To accomplish this however, you will need some basic requirements which are as follows:
1) A USB modem from either US Robotics or Zoom Modem. These are readily available from Amazon, MacMall or any number of other online vendors and work very well and seemlessly with all Macs running OSX right up through Mavericks
OR
A Multifunction printer that is capable of receiving faxes to a desktop Mac like the HP 127 fw. Other models exist from other manufacturers as well, but you will have to do a bit of research and probably check with the vendor or user manual directly to confirm that Fax to desktop is supported for Mac and OS 10.9.
2) A dedicated Mail Server (MSFT Exchange, Kerio, MacOSX server with mail server enabled, or PostFix enalber or MailServe from Cutedge Systems)
You will need to set up an email account on your server that is the parent for all incoming faxes from which the faxes will be sent out as part of your digital workflow. This is beyond the scope of this discussion but if you've come this far and you're still reading, you probably know how to do this already. I recommend setting this up as a POP account, not IMAP. This way, the attatchments (your faxes) will always remain on your server as a back up, until you delete them from the server.
3) Now simply go to System preferences and select "Printers and Scanners". Select either the Fax printer for your multifunction printer, or add a fax printer/reviever using the + button and select "Fax" if you are using a USB modem. You must have the USB modem attatched to the computer in order to use the built-in Apple Fax feature for the latter option.
4) Now click on the receive options. Select "Recieve faxes to this computer" and set your ring answer settings. Check "Save to" and select the designated folder (either Faxes or Shared Faxes on your computer) or create a new folder. Depending on the volume of faxes, and your back up systems, you may want to designate a separate folder on a separate drive, exclusively for your Faxes. This is where all your faxes will be stored.
5) Now launch "Automator" in your applications folder and create a new workflow. You will be presented with several options. Select "Folder Action".
6) At the top right of the window space you will see "Folder Action receives files and folders added to" . Select the Fax folder you created in step 4.
7)On the left hand side of the "Actions" menu select "Mail"
8) From the list of actions select "New Mail Message" this will take the latest Fax added to your Fax folder and attach it as a PDF to a new outgoing mail. In the "TO" address put the email address that belongs to the parent account your created for the Faxes on your mail server eg. [email protected]. In the subject field you can put "Fax Workflow" or any other generic subject that will identify to all reciptients that this is an email that contains a Fax/PDF attatchment.
Under "account" use the SMTP account you set up on your mail server to handle the routing of internal emails. In most cases, this will be the same as the parent account created above. (Effectively, this account is sending and receiving emails to itself).
9) From the list of actions, select "Send outgoing messages".
10) Save the Automator workflow with a name like "FaxDistribution" or "FaxFlow".
11) Go back to the Fax folder you created in step 4. Right click or option click on the folder and scroll down the options menu and select "Folder Actions Setup". You will see a list of scripts including the Automator workflow you just created. Choose it.
That's it!! From now on, when you get a fax, it will get dumped into the designated fax folder, and this will automatically trigger the workflow to atttach and send it as an email to anyone in your office that is set up to receive emails with the "faxserver" address. You now have a paperless fax digital workflow server system for distributing your faxes digitally to anyone in your office who needs to review your faxes. Good luck!

Thank you for this interesting posting.

Re: Fax Server connect to SAP

Hi,
I want to connect the SAP to our fax server. The objective is that
when the PO is completely release, it will generate a PO in PDF and sent it to the supplier by mean of our fax server.
Is this feasible?, if yes, any help how this can be achieve. Thanks in advance
She

Hi,
We just implemented a Fax solution for automatic delivery of PO via Fax. You need to implement a fax server and integrate it to SAP. We used third party solution with Biscom Fax Servers for solution and Aventx software (STR Software ) company provides a software that talks to SAP and FAX Server. Once the AventX software is installed, you need an RFC connection.
You also might need a development team to work on the Format the PO comes out when you use Fax as an Output Type. It might just comeout using SAP standard form, and if you got a custom form then you will also need a Z output type created, a new custom form which is a mimic to the output that comes as a printout.
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We can use 10.5 Server as a FAX server. Since I got this working a while ago, it has run reliably.
This is how we are doing it. Hopefully this will help others get it working too.
Our server: 10.5.2, Pro Intel 2x2.8 quad with a USB Apple faxmodem attached to the front USB port plugged into a standard phone line. Print service is set up and running and happens to be serving printers for us. Once the FAX seemed to get confused and not receive or send. I unplugged the USB fax, plugged it back in and it was fine again.
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In 10.4 and once in 10.5 I had to delete the fax manually from System Preferences and recreate it as above when everything seemed to stop working and unplugging the modem and rebooting the server did not fix the stall. As long as everything is named exactly the same when you recreate the fax, no other changes or repeat of what is described below was needed.
For each of the users in our OD:
Tell them each to do the following: Open Applications > Applescript > Folder actions setup. Check off "enable folder actions," hit the + under the left box and select the folder in the share where the faxes are being received. Now select the fax folder in the left and hit the + under the right box and choose "add - new item alert." Save as necessary. The users who do this will now get notification when a new fax arrives and is deposited by the server in the Fax folder.
Now to get the fax to the clients to fax out on. The following will also get all of your shared printers onto any off server's subnet clients. For us the fax did not even show up in local subnet clients as printers usually do. So I kept working and eventually came up with the following:
Our network:
Main location 192.168.1.* server is here.
Remote locations connected via Verizon T1 and routers with no firewalling
192.168.2.*
192.168.3.*
Our client machines :
Intel white iMacs all running 10.5.2 with no special software for faxing. Our clients are bound to and controlled by our server.
I have been trying to get our server to serve the FAX across our 2 remote subnets since 10.3. With the newer CUPS coming with 10.5 and Apple now owning it I hoped that there would be an easy solution to get non local subnet computers the ability to see shared faxes and printers. Sent a forum question and got the following which was great news
Erich Wetzel wrote:
Can anyone advise, now that Apple owns CUPS, how to allow my other
two subnets to BrowsePoll our server for its printers?
The simplest way is to change the "Allow from @LOCAL" lines to be
"Allow from all". You can also use the web interface and check the
"Allow printing from the Internet", which does the same. If you
don't want to open up that much, just add "Allow from" lines for
each subnet.
Once you make this change, *do not* toggle the printer sharing box,
or you'll have to make the changes all over again.
Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com
Michael,
Thanks for the reply, sounds like you have my solution. Small problem, upon selecting "allow printing from internet" in the web interface and committing the changes, the server restarts and the check box is empty again. In quick tests, the other options can be turned on and off as you would expect. Is there something particular to the Apple 10.5.1 install that would not permit internet printing or not permit this change?
I think the check box state in the web interface is a known bug in
CUPS 1.3.4.
I used the web interface for cups on the server and manually added the networks as described by Michael above. I don't know if it is required but I restarted the server. Open > Safari > browse to localhost:631 and you will get the CUPS web interface. The CUPS web interface is available on servers and clients. You can also browse to an IP or FDQN:631 to get the web interface from a receptive other machine.
The server was now supposedly ready to accept "browsepoll" requests from clients. I had played with this before so I was somewhat familiar with what to do next. Essentially each client needs to be told to contact the server and ask it for its printers. That is what browsepoll does in CUPS.
At the client, be logged in as an admin user OF THE CLIENT. Using Terminal and a text editor, edit as root /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
A few lines down look for:
# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
After that we added :
#*added by Erich*
BrowseProtocols all
BrowseRemoteProtocols all
BrowsePoll yourserver:631
BrowsePort 631
#*added by Erich*
where "yourserver" is either the IP address or FDQN of your server as seen by the client machine.
Save the file. Reboot the client. The CUPS system on the client will now ask your server CUPS system for its printers directly and repeatedly until it gets them. If it does not get any you will not be notified in anyway other than log messages on the client, see Console > /var/log > cups to review them, and the fact that you don't get your server's printers being available on the client.
This last piece came from a discussion started by Alessandro Dellavedova : check the starting post
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5702731&#5702731
If you go to Safari > Localhost:631 on the client, CUPS should now see both the printers and the fax which are being hosted by your server.
Here's the fun part for me, with no additional playing I was now able to see the fax we created long ago in the print dialog printer list. You do not have to go to Print > PDF > Fax PDF, you can but do not have to. Just select the fax from the printer list and the dialog changes to fax appropriate options. Now we were able to print any document to the fax directly.
Odd behavior I have yet to figure out. I do not see the fax in the System Preferences > print and fax pane on the client machines. However, I can now fax through our server from all of our clients no matter what subnet they are on.
Making the same additions to the cupsd.conf file on remote machines which VPN via the internet to your network will get them the printers and fax in the same way. I do this with a powerbook and Imac from home so i can print at and fax from work.
This is what I did to get it working for us. Hope this helps.
-Erich

This is Great! Thanks a lot, this was exactly what I was looking for!

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Thanks.

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I have an old Blue & White that I have upgraded to a G4 processor.
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My intention is to use the built-in modem and a single telephone line and number.
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Inbound faxes would always be images.
My objective is to have a single device that anyone on the local network that will be able to remote login and be able to send and receive faxes.
My concerns are:
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2. Outbound faxing via remote login.
3. Remotely administering and monitoring the machine.
4. Sending the incoming faxes to the proper user/home directory
Inbound and outbound faxes would be handled by the machine using a single telephone line. I have used the OS X faxing software on a single user basis, but have never tried it with multiple user accounts on a single machine.
I believe that I can accomplish:
1. using auto-login to the guest account at bootup.
2. using remote login for users.
3. using remote login for admin.
I would like health and status reporting to be handled via some sort of feed instead of remote login.
I am unsure how to accomplish #4 as I have a single phone # provided by the cable company that provides my internet access and they do not offer additional numbers with distinctive ringing.
Additionally, I would use the same machine for additional file storage.
Any input would be greatly appreciated. --- Zee

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I am try to export Outbox and Send status in windown 2012 Fax server. I don't need actual
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a lot.

Hi,
Thank you for posting your issue in the forum.
I am trying to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue. There might be some time delay. Appreciate your patience.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
Best Regards,
Justin Gu

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