How-to Send a Fax Using Email

Information

How-to send faxes using email using the @fax.modulis.ca service.

Your organisation must have a fax number linked to the fax.modulis.ca service and you may not be able to use the fax to send and/or receive faxes, you may have to contact support to enable this feature.

Intended Audience

User

Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Create a new email message

  2. Enter the fax number in the TO field followed by @fax.modulis.ca

    About fax numbers

    “Country code + Area code + Phone Number”@fax.modulis.ca

    Examples:
    Fax number: 1-413-283-8709
    Email to line: 14132838709@fax.modulis.ca

    NOTE: Using this format, you can add to up to 50 fax numbers to the same email – messages sent to multiple destinations will not generate a cover page.

  3. Put the content of your fax together
    • Fax Message Body: Attachment(s) or email’s HTML body

      About fax attachments

      Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Snapshot, PDF, Text files and HTML (there are other undocumented file formats that are accepted).

    • Cover Page information in the email body and Subject line (parameters) – Those are completely optional

      Cover pages

      Add one or more of these parameters to the Subject line to include them on the cover page, or override your organisation’s default cover pages values – if there is no information on the Subject line default organisational values will be displayed.

      To=NameOfPerson
      Co=CompanyName
      FR=From Name ( or From=From Name)
      CP=B,S,C,P,Blank or N (Basic, Standard, Company, Personal, Blank Page or Force No Cover Page)
      AC=Account or Billing Code
      Retries=Number of times we are to retry sending the fax – 0 – 6 times (default is 6)
      Pass=YourPassword
      cpl=fr To use French titles on cover page
      Sub=SubjectOfYourFax

      NOTE: The cover page parameter fields MUST be separated by a forward slash “/” Specify only the parameters you need.

      Examples:

      Send a fax to 1-413-283-8709 with the subject field of the cover page and no password filled.
      Send Email To: 14132838709@fax.modulis.ca
      Subject Line: Information as requested

      Send a fax to John Smith at 1-413-283-8709 with no password.
      Send Email To: 14132838709@fax.modulis.ca
      Subject Line: To=John Smith / sub=Information as requested

      Send a fax to John Smith of ABC Inc, at 1-413-283-8709 with a billing code and a password
      Send Email To: 14132838709@fax.modulis.ca
      Subject Line: Co=ABC Inc. / Pass=123456 / To=John Smith / ac=1234 / sub=Information as requested

      Send a fax to John Smith of ABC Inc, at 1-413-283-8709 using the Company cover page.
      Send Email To: 14132838709@fax.modulis.ca
      Subject Line: Co=ABC Inc. / To=John Smith / cp=c / sub=Information as requested

      NOTE: All cover page related parameters will be ignored on broadcast fax messages – messages sent to multiple destinations will not include a cover page.

      Message body format

      Plain text: Will be displayed on the comment section of the cover page.

      HTML: HTML email body will be rendered on the fax as separate pages (like attachments).

  4. Send the message

When the fax is sent

You will receive an Email with the final status of the fax. To check on the status of the fax, go to the Faxes Queued folder.

The fax service will only accept Email messages from authorized users specified in the settings for Sending Faxes in the admin panel.

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