Programmatically Controlling Windows Fax Services Using VB.net - Setting Up the Fax Server
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If your test page came through okay, we can now look at some of the settings of the fax service. Most of these can be controlled via your application but it doesn't hurt to know where they are.
Fire up the Fax Services Manager application. This is where most of the configuration is carried out.
As you can see from the screen shot, you can see all the modems that the service is going to use, as well as the incoming and outgoing routing rules and the cover pages available on the server.
Most of the useful options can be set by right clicking on the Fax (local) icon at the top, then clicking on Properties.
There are quite a few options in here. For now just go into the Receipts tab. In this tab we can tell the fax service where the SMTP server is located, and under what email address to send out the fax.
This is used to email information to an address. The email is sent when a job has been processed on the server, and contains things like the job status (sent, failed, canceled, etc.), how long it took to send, how many retries were made and other useful stats.
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