Email Fax Service

Five of the best email fax services, which allow you to send and receive faxes via special fax software, or send and receive via online fax services, or send a fax via a physical fax machine and have that fax forwarded to your recipient’s e-mail address. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page.

1. MetroFax - Send and receive faxes from anywhere an Internet connection is available; no fax software required. Offers individual, small business and corporate services. (www.metrohispeed.com)

2. eFax - Offers you a unique fax phone number, but all faxes are sent and received from your computer, allowing you to have a fax number without the physical fax machine. Offers both free and paid versions, and both email to fax service and fax to email service. (www.efax.com)

3. MyFax - Pay $10 per month to send up to 100 fax pages and receive up to 200 faxed pages (extra pages 10 cents per), with messages sent and received via your computer. (www.myfax.com)

4. Faxsv - Free Fax2Mail fax to email service allows you to input your fax number (the fax you’re sending from) and the e-mail address you want to send to. You are then given an alternate fax number to send to, which will take your fax message and convert it into a form that can be forwarded to the email address of your recipient. Available in the United States and Israel. (www.faxsv.com)

5. TPC: Send a Fax By Email - If you’ve got your recipient’s fax number, this service lets you send free faxes via any e-mail software, including international fax numbers. Go there to see how it’s done. (www.tpc.int)