motley me said:
I had my fax machine die last week and i am trying to decide if i should
bite the bullet and buy another or go to an internet fax service.
Any of you guys using one? Any good ones to try or bad ones to avoid?
I use myfax.com with a toll free number. I had my old landline number
forwarded to it and canceled the copper line. $10 a month. (plus what the
phone company charges me for my old fax number). If I just used the toll
free number for incoming, and gave up my old fax number of a decade it would
just cost me $10 a month. Works great for the number of faxes I send or
receive, and its cheap. Incoming faxes are e-mailed to me as pdf
attachments. To send a fax I just attach the file to an e-mail and send it
to (their number)@myfax.com from the e-mail address I have associated with
my account. I can actually associate multiple e-mail addresses, but
realistically I only need one for that. I can send faxes from anywhere I
can get on the internet as I use an address with web as well as client
interface capability.
Most popular file formats are supported as attachments for sending. I still
have a mechanical fax machine that get use once in a while, but most times I
just don't need it. I might find it more convenient to use the machine
maybe once or twice a month now. I just have it on my voice line and set it
not to answer incoming calls at all. Delivery confirmation and delivery
failure notices are e-mailed back to me, and I set up that account to sort
all files (sent/received/confirmations/etc into different folders.) Makes
it easy to delete spam faxes to.