How to Receive a Fax in Email

Receiving fax by email is efficient for home-based businesses, small businesses, and large corporations. There is no machines or paper involved and you never have to worry about the fax paper tangling in the machine as it is being received. The email fax is a way to get one step closer to a paperless office.

1. Sign up for an email faxing
   service. If you only plan to receive faxes and never have to send
   any, you can sign up for a completely free account at K7.net.
   This service will give you a fax number, which is what your
   recipient needs in order to send the fax. You can use this service
   as only fax or voicemail and fax. There are other services that
   allow you to send faxes as well for a monthly fee, such as Smartfax.


2. Keep in mind that when receiving an email fax the sender has no idea how you are
   receiving the fax. If they also have email fax, they would place
   your fax number in the “To” of the email and attach the
   documents to be sent. When your fax arrives, it is in the form of an
   email attachment.


3. Open the attached documents and
   then you can choose if these need to be printed or just filed on
   your computer. Many times faxes do not need to be printed at all,
   but you have this option to do so if you need to. Receiving faxes
   via email is the ultimate in convenience and a much better way to do
   faxes than the traditional route because it saves money and time.