From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 18:15:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C721065675 for ; Fri, 6 May 2011 18:15:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gull@gull.us) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61A8C8FC0A for ; Fri, 6 May 2011 18:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg7 with SMTP id 7so1342700eyg.13 for ; Fri, 06 May 2011 11:15:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.7.1 with SMTP id 1mr1993783eeo.245.1304705725041; Fri, 06 May 2011 11:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.47.11 with HTTP; Fri, 6 May 2011 11:15:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [173.250.142.186] In-Reply-To: <20110506195047.621c5d13.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <723BE905-95AC-4B07-AD31-3D149F06527E@lafn.org> <462351.71539.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20110506195047.621c5d13.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 11:15:24 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Brodbeck To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: Re: Sending a Fax X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 18:15:26 -0000 On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Polytropon wrote: > In the past, I've also used the hylafax port with a > regular external serial modem, and it worked perfectly. > I think the moden was an... Elsa? MicroLink something? > Looked like a green toy, but worked very well. I've used it with US Robotics modems, the cheap "Sportster" consumer ones. I imagine you can pick these up for a pittance now on the used market. What I found was the sending compatibility of the US Robotics modem was really good, but the receive compatibility wasn't quite as good as our Multitech; a few machines had trouble sending to the US Robotics modem. I used it as a send-only modem in our Hylafax system in order to avoid tying up the Multitech. We were a small manufacturing company and when we got a project started it wasn't unusual for our purchasing department to send off three dozen faxes in rapid succession and get faxed replies back for each one. We had incoming DID with each number routed to a different email address. Hylafax handled it really well.