Re: Fax4Outlook vs MSFax?

From: Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] (russval_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:45:54 -0500

I'm not following your question. 

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:e10701c411aa$34acd130$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Yes windows XP Fax and office xp.
>
> In addition to maintaining all faxes in the fax console I
> have configured XP Fax to store a copy in my own Fax
> Archive folder.
>
> Here's an interesting question, when I open a fax from
> the fax console the windows picture and fax viewer
> displays the image. When I click on the next image
> button, or the previous image button the windows picture
> and fax viewer does not display the previous for next
> fax? I can't figure out why windows picture and fax
> viewer displays the images that it does with their
> seemingly random dates.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I assume you mean Windows XP Fax, not Microsoft Fax. If
> you have emailed
> >the faxes to yourself, they are in your PST file, but
> Outlook will not
> >preview TIF files. Plus, you should still have a backup
> of your faxes in the
> >Fax Console, right?
> >--
> >Russ Valentine
> >[MVP-Outlook]
> ><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:dca201c41155$211da5e0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I was shocked to learn that Fax4Outlook only
> >> created "pointers" in the outlook inbox & sent items
> >> folders pointing to the faxes in the fax console!
> >>
> >> Because of the instability of the "pointers" I was
> >> constantly loosing my faxes and all of their customized
> >> properties. Their tech support claimed that this was by
> >> design!? I have now lost all of my faxes from the last
> 8
> >> months! Move on.
> >>
> >> The good news is that I have learned how to use MSFax
> and
> >> I have developed a process of dealing with its faxes so
> >> that, with a little more work than an email, they
> appear
> >> in my outlook inbox and sent items folder.
> >>
> >> When I send a fax through outlook, it appears in the
> sent
> >> items folder as well as the fax console.
> >>
> >> When I receive a fax in the fax console, I email it to
> >> myself and it appears in the inbox. If I use
> categories,
> >> subjects & contacts appropriately, all of the faxes are
> >> searchable as easily as all other outlook items.
> >> Unfortunately I have not found a way to make the fax
> >> attachments appear in the preview window.
> >>
> >> The question that I have is this, are the faxes in the
> >> inbox and sent items folders really in the PST file or
> >> are they only "pointers" to the fax console? My concern
> >> is for the long term stability of my communications
> data.
> >
> >
> >.
> >