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To RECEIVE with efax:
1. Make sure your efax settings from the efax website sends the fax in .tiff format, not the .efx format.
2. You don't need any additional software - just an email program to receive the email, and Acidimage Pro to view the tiff file. Acidimage Pro is expensive - 49 bucks - but it is the only program I have found which reads .tiff files.
3. When someone faxes you the document, efax sends you an email with the faxed document as an attachment. Just receive the email and view the attachment like you would view a jpg attachment.
To SEND with efax:
1. No efax software needed. You just send an email using your regular email program.
2. Attach whatever file you want to be faxed to the email, such as Word document, excel document, pdf, Corel, tiff, jpg, etc.
3. Send the email with the attached document to be faxed to: [fax number]@efaxsend.com Remember to include the 1 and area code for US faxes.
You can receive faxes for free from the fax number efax assigns you. Or, you pay $0.20 per page for faxes sent to a toll free number.
To send faxes, you need to pay efax's monthly fee, which is $12.95/mo. For that price, you get a local fax number and the ability to send faxes as shown above.
I pay efax's monthly fee for a fax line for several reasons:
a. I can receive my faxes from whatever computer I am at, including on my Treo;
b. I don't have to be in my office to receive a fax;
c. $12.95 is cheaper and more convenient than a dedicated fax line and fax machine;
d. I can send faxes to people who don't use email;
e. I save my faxes on my computer (sorted by client) rather than printing them out. I save on paper and ink, and my faxes are "filed" on my computer for later retreival. I don't worry about people sending me giant faxes;
f. efax has been reliable for the few years I have used it.
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