How to send a fax
With Tigatel’s Email to Fax system, you no longer need to waste time hanging around at the fax machine trying to get that fax delivered; now you can simply email it. Tigatel’s automated service enables you to compose an email; which will be sent to a fax machine.
Steps to follow
- Send an email to faxnumber@fax.tigatel.co.za where faxnumber = the international format of the telephone number of the fax machine. (eg. 27851013715@fax.tigatel.co.za)
- Attach the attachment you wish to send. (Max 3 at a time)
- Subject line must contain the following: u=username p=password
- Where username=email address, and password=your password.
(eg. u=johndoe@company.co.za p=johndoe) - Send the E-mail
Fax success and failures are reported to your email address.
Format of E-mail
The actual email can be composed in two ways:
- Type the body of your Email, the Fax will be the body of the Email and/or,
- Attach a file in one of the following formats to be used as the Fax body:
- Microsoft Word Documents (.doc & docx)
- Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (.xls & xlsx)
- Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations (.ppt)
- Note Pad (.txt) or any Text Editor
- GIF Images (.gif)
- TIFF 3 Images (.tif/.tiff)
- JPEG Images (.jpg/.jpeg)
- BMP Images (.bmp)
- PDF Documents (.pdf)
- HTML Documents (.htm/.h )
Please note: documents created in Microsoft Word and Excel 2007 (.docx and .xlsx file extensions) are compatible with the email to fax system, however, PowerPoint 2007, i.e. .pptx extension is not compatible.
