fax to email / email to fax - recommendations?

hanrahan398@yahoo.co.uk

Hi, can someone recommend a reliable fax-to-email service, preferably
with a UK number, that works from anywhere in the world?

I recently left Demon as my ISP, because generally speaking they have
become total crap. But their fax to email service always worked fine,
so I am looking for something at least as good as that. (That the
number was 0870 caused no difficulty). If you have used a fax-to-email
service for several years, including for receiving faxes from around
the world, and it's never been problematic, please let me know!

Also I'd be interested in people's experience of email-to-fax, which I
haven't used before.

Cheers,

Michael

hanrahan398@yahoo.co.uk

On Nov 13, 6:51 pm, hanrahan...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hi, can someone recommend a reliable fax-to-email service, preferably
> with a UK number, that works from anywhere in the world?
>
> I recently left Demon as my ISP, because generally speaking they have
> become total crap. But their fax to email service always worked fine,
> so I am looking for something at least as good as that. (That the
> number was 0870 caused no difficulty). If you have used a fax-to-email
> service for several years, including for receiving faxes from around
> the world, and it's never been problematic, please let me know!
>
> Also I'd be interested in people's experience of email-to-fax, which I
> haven't used before.

I should have added - I need a company which does not insist on direct
debit, and which does not automatically take renewal payments at the
end of each year, without having specifically been instructed to do
so.

Having to pay a year's rental for fax-to-email up front, and having to
make card payments to keep my balance topped up, so as to cover the
costs of any faxes I need to send, would be fine.

Michael

simonclark123@hotmail.com

On 13 Nov, 18:51, hanrahan...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hi, can someone recommend a reliable fax-to-email service, preferably
> with a UK number, that works from anywhere in the world?
>
> I recently left Demon as my ISP, because generally speaking they have
> become total crap. But their fax to email service always worked fine,
> so I am looking for something at least as good as that. (That the
> number was 0870 caused no difficulty). If you have used a fax-to-email
> service for several years, including for receiving faxes from around
> the world, and it's never been problematic, please let me know!
>
> Also I'd be interested in people's experience of email-to-fax, which I
> haven't used before.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael

I have one from efax (USA based) which I would not recommend - they
double billed me one year and cut me off (I got three months free as
an apology).
They also set up a Continuing Credit Card Authority without my
authority - their 'have-a-nice-day' call centre in didn't see the
problem with that.

Anyway, I now use, and would highly recommend www.inweb.co.uk (based
in Egham) - I have an 0870 and an 0800 fax-to-email with them, both
terminating to the same number - I could also have a geographic number
if I wished.

I think you can choose between .pdf format or .tif

Regards

Simon
Business Telecoms

J B

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> Hi, can someone recommend a reliable fax-to-email service, preferably
> with a UK number, that works from anywhere in the world?

Following recommendations on here, I've used inweb for the last 2.5 years
http://www.inweb.co.uk/ip_fax2email.html

0870 number has worked from Cyprus, Italy and USA


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> I should have added - I need a company which does not insist on direct
> debit, and which does not automatically take renewal payments

I should have added that inweb costs *me* nothing.
IIRC you have to use it every few (?) months.


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hanrahan398@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hi, can someone recommend a reliable fax-to-email service, preferably
> with a UK number, that works from anywhere in the world?
>
> I recently left Demon as my ISP, because generally speaking they have
> become total crap. But their fax to email service always worked fine,
> so I am looking for something at least as good as that. (That the
> number was 0870 caused no difficulty). If you have used a fax-to-email
> service for several years, including for receiving faxes from around
> the world, and it's never been problematic, please let me know!
>
> Also I'd be interested in people's experience of email-to-fax, which I
> haven't used before.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael


http://customers.aceinternet.co.uk/telco/default1.php

They do 0844, 0845 and 0871. They used to offer 0870, but seems that's
stopped.

0844 and 0871 probably won't work from outside the UK.

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Theo Markettos

hanrahan398@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hi, can someone recommend a reliable fax-to-email service, preferably
> with a UK number, that works from anywhere in the world?

I'm using http://www.popfax.com - you have to pay a little upfront for 3 or
12 months (19EUR or 50EUR respectively) - you used to be able to buy by the
week but now there's a free trial.

I've got an 020 number to receive faxes on - not had any problems receiving
even from Sudan. You can choose to receive as PDF or TIFF in your email,
and you can also see faxes on their website.

> Also I'd be interested in people's experience of email-to-fax, which I
> haven't used before.

I don't think they have email-to-fax (it's a bit of a pain to do the
authentication) but you can send faxes from their website. They take all
sorts of formats (PDF, PS, Word, Excel, OpenOffice, JPEG etc) - you get to
preview the fax before you send it. From EUR0.05 (to UK) to EUR1.00 (to
Cuba) per page depending on destination (costs seem to roughly follow costs
of VOIP calls to that destination).

Again sending to Sudan has been fairly reliable, in fact more reliable than
my decrepit paper fax machine.

I've been using the service since (checks records) exactly a year ago today!
Don't tend to use it very much, maybe once a month or average, but to me
it's definitely worth it.

(Note I quote prices in Euro just because they're round figures - they'll
bill in whatever currency you want)

Theo

Theo Markettos

Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm using http://www.popfax.com - you have to pay a little upfront for 3 or
> 12 months (19EUR or 50EUR respectively) - you used to be able to buy by the
> week but now there's a free trial.

I should add that it's a upfront payment system - you pay XX EUR for N
months subscription, or you buy credits for YYY outgoing faxes. You can
topup by credit card with no surcharge, or Paypal or (French?) bank transfer
for a small additional handling fee. There's no continuous credit/direct
debit payment method.

Theo

Bob Goulden

use a company from the SimplyFone group called contact numbers...
see: http://www.contactnumbers.com/fax_to_email.php

they advertise 0844 fax2email but they;'ll do 0800/0845/0870 etc.. No
set up chge, no min usage, no commitment

& reliable