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Greetings,

In this time of economic difficulties, we wanted to highlight our solutions and the benefits you can realize :

with FAX STARŽ you'll be able to send and receive all your faxes, and most of all, you'll have a return on your invest fast (in less than 3 months in some cases). Using the " Polling " et " Mail " interface you'll be able to develop modern faxing solutions using Web applications;
with LaserNet /AutoForm you can design, send, and archive all your documents. You'll save a lot of money by not having to use the pre-printed forms, by accelerating the sending (PDF, fax, mail, XML, etc.), and by the standardization of all your documents;
with MAX400,if you own an older AS/400 (170, 250, 270, 2xx, 5xx, 6xx, 7xx, 8xx, etc.) you'll get back interactively all the power of your machine. This may help you to delay your next iSeries investment.

ASo do not hesitate to contact us infos@hoctoplus.fr or +33 1 30 92 83 55.

Best regards,

Jean Martel.

Since a few months the FAX STARŽ Advanced Server has a new function named " Poll Directory ". Using this function, you do not need to include your **FAXSTAR commands into your spooled files and print it on the FAX STARŽ Advanced Server. With the "Poll Directory" function, you can simply create a TXT file with the needed **FAXSTAR commands in a dedicated network folder and ask the FAX STARŽ Advanced Server to send the files you want to send.

One of our customers had the idea to use the Poll Directory function with a Web application. This web application is designed to automatically send emails with attached PDF files real time created. When a web client wants to receive a document, the Web application does the following:

it creates a PDF which is the document the Web client wants, and stores it in a network folder.
it creates a mailbody.txt file in a network folder. This file does contain the dynamic mail body they want to include in the email.
and last, it stores a .txt file in the " Poll Directory " containing only the **FAXSTAR commands needed: **(MAILG) recipient@domain.com **(SUBJECT) "Email subject" **(REPLYTO) sender@company.com **(XMAILBODYD) \\network_folder\mailbody.txt **(MXATTACHD) \\network_folder\file.pdf

When the FAX STARŽ Advanced Server receives the .txt file stored in the Poll Directory, an email is automatically generated, including the mailbody.txt text in the mail body, and with the PDF file attached. As soon as the email is sent, the PDF and the Mailbody.txt files are deleted by theFAX STARŽ Advanced Server.

You may have some needs that Poll Directory and the FAX STARŽ Advanced Server can answer, so contact us : +33 1 30 92 83 55 or infos@hoctoplus.fr.

One of our customers who was using FAX STARŽ in an AS/400 environnement has decided to leave the IBM world for SAP. But he also decided to keep its FAX STARŽ Advanced Server. Here is how it works:

SAP sends Emails to Lotus Notes (using SMTP) with attached PDF files. The SAP recipient format of that email is FAX=+33123456789@FAX.
Domino receives those Emails and stores them in a dedicated database.
The FAX STARŽ Mail Gateway analyses this database, converts the emails and attached files into images and sends those images by fax.
Once the fax is sent, the FAX STARŽ Mail Gateway sends an acknowlegment email to the sender.

Of course we had to manage the particular syntax used by SAP, but now it works like a charm and we're proud to announce that we are fully compatible with the SAP standard.

If you want to send faxes from SAP, do not hesitate to contact us +33 1 30 92 83 55 and we'll find a solution.

The MailSysFlags command continues to evolve:

For inbound faxes, received by email, it is now possible to rename the attached file using the MailSysFlags Dword value:

0x00000400 the file will use the date (FAXMMDDYYYY)
0x00000500 the file will use the date and hour (FAXMMDDYYYY_HHMM)
0x00000800 the file will be named "FAXxxxxx" where "xxxxx" corresponds to the internal key (FST number)