Has anyone programmed WinFAX from OI? Symantec has a software development kit for WinFAX but you have to create a dll from it. I want to specify message, fax number, etc. from OI and to use WinFAX's built-in shared modem capability.

There are some fax programs that install as a Printer Driver. I'm not at my office, but I'll try to post a link tomorrow to a couple of sites that work this way. I have a few customers that have used and liked this solution.

Don M.

You can try putting fax: 999999 in the TO: address of an e-mail, Square brackets are required, where 99999=fanumber. If this works then here is the code I use.

subroutine bsbs_send_fax(FullFileName,Company,FaxNo,Subject,TxtBody)

declare subroutine Msg, Get_Status

declare function   MapiSendMail, MAPILogon, MAPILogoff

$insert Mapi_Equates

equ CRLF$ to \0D0A\

equ CR$   to \0D\

equ LF$   to \0A\

equ TAB$  to \09\

Session=0

Status=MAPILogon(Session, @Window, "MS Exchange Settings", "")

FileName=FullFileName-1,'B\'

if Session then

	Flags=MAPI_LOGON_UI$

end else

	Flags=MAPI_LOGON_UI$ + MAPI_DIALOG$

end

if TxtBody=" then TxtBody=.'

Message='

Message=Subject

Message=fax:":FaxNo:""

Message=TxtBody

• Message=MAPI_RECEIPT_REQUESTED$

Message=IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note"

• Message=IPM."

Message=FileName

Message=FullFileName

Message=( len( message) - 2 ) 

if MAPISendMail(Session, 0, Flags, Message) then

  Msg(@window, "Fax sent successfully!":@fm:"T1")

end else

  Get_Status(ErrMsg)

  Msg(@window, ErrMsg)

end

Status=MAPILogoff(Session, @Window)

return

Thanks for the input guys but I am looking for something else. Barry, does that work with WinFAX or just Outlook? Problem with Outlook is that I cannot share the modem. I use this approach to email out of Outlook and it works like a charm.

Sorry, it is M/Soft Shared Fax that it works with (Server), it integrates with Outlook.

Barry

Hi Bob,

Send me an email (splaver@pacifier.com) if you still need to use WinFax for sending faxes in OI. WinFax uses an old OLE Server interface which is only callable via a COM/OLE interface. I created a full featured interface to WinFax (sending faxes, viewing logs, etc.) in OIWAM for another client, and I can send you an eval version if you want to test it out.

Tony Splaver

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