James Freer jrjfreer@googlemail.com wrote:
I read your post with interest - i'd also like to know the best way of faxing with Linux. [...]
I have incoming faxes to an 08 number service which emails me a PDF. There are several such providers - I think mine is inweb.net.uk. Using an 08 number doesn't cost real senders much (I prefer email anyway), but seems to deter junk spammers.
I use efax on the rare occasions that I send faxes. It's a simple command-line file sender which copes with class I and II fax modems (I think hylafax only like class II). There's also efax-gtk, which I've not tried. You should find efax packages in most distributions. The debian one has quite a few patches by now, but I've seen some strange errors reported from 64-bit systems recently.
Hope that helps,