GFI FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP Manual GFI FAXmaker - an overview • 3
Then it will mail back a delivery report to the user. The same principle
is applied to SMS messages.
Installing GFI FAXmaker on a separate machine leaves Microsoft
Exchange Server completely standard – no changes to active
directory are made and no custom software will be running on your
Exchange server.
How it works from the client
All faxes sent by users from the FAXmaker Fax Message form or the
New Message form of Microsoft Outlook are sent via Microsoft
Outlook using the MAPI format [FAX:<number>]. The standard SMTP
connector (which is created by FAXmaker during set-up and is a
completely standard Exchange connector) forwards the faxes via
SMTP to the GFI FAXmaker Fax server.
How GFI FAXmaker works with Exchange 5.5
Figure 3 - GFI FAXmaker installed on a separate machine if using Exchange Server 5.5
If you have Microsoft Exchange 5.5, you must install GFI FAXmaker
on a separate machine. This separate machine must be running
Windows 2000 or higher and the IIS SMTP service. Afterwards you
must create a routing rule to forward all mail sent to the domains
faxmaker.com and smsmaker.com to the GFI FAXmaker Fax server.
How to create this rule is described in detail in the chapter
‘Configuring Exchange Server 5.5 for faxing’
The GFI FAXmaker fax server receives the faxes via SMTP and using
a sink captures the fax and converts it to fax format and faxes it out.
Then it will mail back a delivery report to the user. The same principle
is applied to SMS messages.
If using Active Directory, you must ensure that the e-mail address of
each GFI FAXmaker user has been entered in Active Directory. This is
not done automatically by Exchange 5.5. If you don’t use Active
Directory you have to configure the name and email address of the
GFI FAXmaker users.
