Skype question

[anewguy]

Currently, my parents fax some documents to the fax machine in my brother inlaws' office in the house. The fax machine in his office is the only thing that the phone line there is used for.

My parents are elderly and I know I won't be able to get them to send documents from their PC - everything they fax is hand written and they won't use the PC for it.

So, is there anyway, using a regular fax machine and phone line, for someone to fax to a PC that has Skype? I would suspect one would need SkypeIn (at least that's what it was called a few years ago) with a phone number for them to call.

I'd like to have some Linux process running in the background that can somehow "answer" a Skype call and act as a virtual fax machine.

Thanks in advance!
Dave ;)

[Rhizoid]

Before you decide to use Skype, have a look at K7 unified messaging. I'm pretty sure it will do what you want it to and it doesn't need a machine running skype left on in case someone faxes you.

http://k7.net/

Cheese!

[anewguy]

Thanks! I'll take a look at it.

Dave ;)

[anewguy]

It looks like that takes anything that can come in on your phone line, traps it, and converts it to an email. The thing is I want to get rid of the phone line on the receiving end and was hoping I could use Skype for that. After doing a lot more research on the web it appears you have to use pay products for that, and the most of them are Windows oriented and are for sending faxes, whereby I want to receive faxes.

I guess I'll just let it go for now, but thanks for the response!

Dave ;)