I have a client who wants to do automated faxes, meaning without a wizard coming up for each fax. I've been looking into the available tools, and I'm not liking anything so far. Does anybody have a fax program/driver they like with decent automation support?

BTW, I am willing to look at online fax services, but Client is in South Africa.

You should also check out the various product options at http://www.electrasoft.com/ .Thus was a product that was selected for use for one of my clients some years ago. 

Look at these four programs, they differ depending on your specific needs.

32bit InternetFax - Options include: Send faxes by fax modem, send faxes by email, send fax over the Internet, and the ability to forward all incoming fax to an email address. Single computer/modem/Network  Optionally Send fax via the Internet using our built in fax API. If your fax recipient has an email address, this fax software program will fax email it to them by attaching the fax to an email and do an email fax to them.

FaxMail for Windows - Options include: Send faxes by fax modem, send faxes by email, send fax over the Internet, and the ability to forward all incoming fax to an email address. Single computer/modem/Network

32bit Fax - Options include: Send faxes by fax modem, send faxes by email, send fax over the Internet, and the ability to forward all incoming fax to an email address. Single computer/modem

32bit Email Broadcaster - emailing your newsletters and messages to thousands of groups and organizations in a few minutes from now with this full featured email newsletter system.

I think pricing is about $60, lifetime upgrades and support, a Top Pick from Cnet downloads which now carries Sesame.
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Another product, now free, but no longer being developed is 42BEEE, an email scheduler/broadcaster that I think can be sent to phone numbers as faxes: http://www.iopus.com/freeware/beee/. ; I have not used this for over five years, but was effective and cost is right.

Hello Robert,

We ended up using a Windows Script file to call the Windows Fax driver. The script accepts a filename of the document to be faxed and  the phone number to fax it to. The Windows Fax Driver uses the file associations for that file type to launch the program associated with the Print property and uses that program to print the document.

Sbasic creates a temporary TXT file and then shells out to the Script file passing it the name of the Temp file and the Fax number, then deletes the Temp file.

When you use a TXT file you can set what font size it prints in by changing your font size in notepad.

So in that particular application the same report can be Printed, Faxed, E-Mailed, and Previewed all from the click of a button. What's even cooler is that it's the exact same report no need in this case at least to create a different one to be faxed then the one that is e-mailed.

I'm sure Erika would have loved to answer you but she's stuck at the airport due to a flight being canceled. and another flight. and another flight.

-Ray