Want to be able to receive faxes directly to my email (I use entourage)

Hi...
I am wondering if there is a software out there that enables me to have people send me faxes which go directly to my email address (set-up in entourage)? I'm not too concerned with sending faxes at the moment - just receiving them. Does anyone know what I need to do this easily and effectively? And how does it work with needing a fax number for folks to dial etc.?
thanks...
J.

Hi, uwpe90. You would need to subscribe to a service. Such a service provides you with a fax number to give to your friends and business associates. When a fax is sent to you, it goes to the service, which converts it into an attachment to an email message, then sends the message to your email address.
To find such a service, Google "Mac fax-to-email" (in quotes).
If you don't also need to be able to send faxes via email, you can use a service that caters chiefly to Windoze users, because no additional software will have to be installed on your computer just to receive email with attachments. If sending faxes from your Mac to your associates' email addresses is important to you, you'll probably need to find a service that offers Mac-based proprietary software for that.
Of course almost anyone who can send you a fax nowadays is probably able to scan an original paper document and email it to you directly, so the value of fax-to-email services is limited. If you have correspondents who, for whatever reason, are unable to scan documents but able to fax them, then a fax-to-email service may have some value to you.

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