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Product Description:
Send & Receive Fax
- Send & receive fax with modems, which support fax-class 2 or 2.0
- Send fax, with modems which support only fax-class 1(e.g. miniVigor, new internal modems, ...)
- PDF-, PICT- and FaxSTF-files can be load and send
- Internal editor with text-attributes and placeholders for serial-faxes
- Text can be mixed with graphic-logos and signatures
- Pages are displayed exactly as there are send
- Incoming pages are displayed during fax-reception !!
- Fax-polling (send poll-request only with class 2.0 and some class 2-modems)
- Serial fax
- Network-able Fax-Job-management (Client-Server-operation)
- Support for the Elsa MicroLink Office & USR 56k (Pro)Message(Plus) modem Self-Mode(read fax and voice & configuration)
- for voice-modems with IS-101-, Rockwell-, ZyXEL- and USR-command-set (e.g.. ZyXEL, Zoom, Elsa/TKR, USR, Dr. Neuhaus, Lasat and others)
- Time-, Weekday-, MSN- and situation-dependend voice-messages
- Personal voice-message for each caller, when caller-ID is transfered
- Audio-monitoring while recording with Mac-Soundsystem (except USR-Modems)
- Time dependent redicrection of incoming calls
- 4 different situations setable (e.g. normal, lunch, vacation, ...)
- Remote control / recall of new received faxes
- Recording of AIFFs via Mac-microphone
- Automatic convertion of AIFF-Sounds to modem-format (except USR-modems)
- Converting recorded messages in AIFF
- Unlimited Voice-messages/faxes can be recalled by DTMF-tones
- Statistic of recalls
- Voice-messages can be put together from multiple voice-files
- Fax-transmission via polling request (DTMF-code is not needed - only for class 2.0 modems)
- Permanent poll-sender possible (caller gets fax pages even without sending a poll-request)
- Which messages/faxes are send is dependend from time, MSN and situation-setting
- Connection-typ (fax, voice or fax&voice) could be set individual for each of 10 MSNs
- Display of the calling-number or name, if number is in list and caller-ID is transfered
- Display of call units with ISDN-Modems
- Dialing for analog-telephones
- Zone- & and time-dependent selection of telephone-company (Least-Cost-Router)
- Management of incoming fax/messages in a calls-list
- Calls can be grouped and filtered
- Numbers-list with addresses, groups and salutations for serial-faxes
- Terminal with internal z-modem & x-modem for firmware-upload
- AppleScriptable
What's new in this version:
- Date & time of a call is displayed before 'Answer at x rings' in the main dialogue
- '+' at the beginning of a number is replaced by '00' when dialing
- Bug-Fix: Possible "rattling" of the announcement with internal modem SM56 eliminated
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Editor's Notes:
The Download Now link is for Mac OS X 10.2 or higher. Alternate Download Link 1 is for Mac OS X 10.1 only.Screenshots:
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| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Featured Reviews
Rename it! - Version: 7.3.2, 3/7/2006 12:37PM PST
(2 of 5 users found this comment useful)
binosama
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- Rename it!
May be good for some, consistent crash for me - Version: 7.3.1, 2/19/2006 08:26PM PST
(2 of 3 users found this comment useful)
Joe Wheeler
...after installation, I began to attempt to set up the program in demo mode. It crashed. I rebooted the program, again it crashed. Sometimes it would take a menu access first, but always it would crash; crash log would start:
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x72656464
I don't know what this means. I do know the software is unusable for me.
Other issues: English manual and online help are written by a German speaking person whose translation skills leave much to be desired; to get both fax and ans. machine capability going, cost rises from $49 to $99, and to $149 if one wants to also provide faxback/fax retrieval function.
I had all of the above features in OS 9 with Smith Micro's HotFax Messenger Pro (with the included FaxSTF 5 upgraded [free] to 6.0) which for the most part worked quite well. That software cost me $69 5 years ago.
If it could be made to work, it has many desirable features (hence the 5 stars under features, and supports Class 2.0 fax protocol. Bottom line is, for what one gets it is too expensive, as well as, at least on some machines, buggy.
This is doubly too bad, as this is the only software for OS X that makes use of voice-capable modems for a virtual answering machine.
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x72656464
I don't know what this means. I do know the software is unusable for me.
Other issues: English manual and online help are written by a German speaking person whose translation skills leave much to be desired; to get both fax and ans. machine capability going, cost rises from $49 to $99, and to $149 if one wants to also provide faxback/fax retrieval function.
I had all of the above features in OS 9 with Smith Micro's HotFax Messenger Pro (with the included FaxSTF 5 upgraded [free] to 6.0) which for the most part worked quite well. That software cost me $69 5 years ago.
If it could be made to work, it has many desirable features (hence the 5 stars under features, and supports Class 2.0 fax protocol. Bottom line is, for what one gets it is too expensive, as well as, at least on some machines, buggy.
This is doubly too bad, as this is the only software for OS X that makes use of voice-capable modems for a virtual answering machine.
Ignore the idiots here, this software fills a need - Version: 7.3, 12/31/2005 11:32AM PST
(4 of 4 users found this comment useful)
MacUser-4-ever
Wow, what a bunch of idiots. What do you people do, search VT for apps you have no use for and then give them bad reviews?
First of all, CoMa is more than just a fax app, it also is an answering machine. The price is pretty fair, though I prefer the more expensive Phone Valet for my needs. Still CoMa fills the need for one of my offices where I inevitably get people who try to send a fax to my voice line.
Also in regards to DSL, WiFi, etc...
You can't send or receive a fax using these, meaning you can connect straight from a DSL connection to a fax machine. Net services like Send2Fax are email to fax gateways.
Net faxing services of course can seem silly as compared to simply emailing the document directly to the recipient.
However, there are many instances where a person doesn't have a scanner, can't receive attachments, or whatever. In these cases, as well as being able to receive faxes sent to your voice line, software like this comes in handy...and avoids the spam and costs associated with net faxing services.
First of all, CoMa is more than just a fax app, it also is an answering machine. The price is pretty fair, though I prefer the more expensive Phone Valet for my needs. Still CoMa fills the need for one of my offices where I inevitably get people who try to send a fax to my voice line.
Also in regards to DSL, WiFi, etc...
You can't send or receive a fax using these, meaning you can connect straight from a DSL connection to a fax machine. Net services like Send2Fax are email to fax gateways.
Net faxing services of course can seem silly as compared to simply emailing the document directly to the recipient.
However, there are many instances where a person doesn't have a scanner, can't receive attachments, or whatever. In these cases, as well as being able to receive faxes sent to your voice line, software like this comes in handy...and avoids the spam and costs associated with net faxing services.
It might be better to rename and describe this app it as "Crash Producer" (for developer [or masochistic] purpose).
Still the same as ever. Crashes over crashes, hang ups and no function.
@ MacUser-4-ever pricky
> CoMa is more than just a fax app
Yes, we know. We know that since good old Atari times. And we also know that it doesn't work for the same time, even if the develpper seems to be a nice guy.