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Within the FaxChange terminology faxmailing is the distribution of one fax to many addressees. A typical example is the regular weekly distribution of price list updates. FaxChange processes faxmailing differently than common faxes so as to attain a higher processing speed along with lower expenditure.
FaxChange implements the following modifications in the processing of faxmail (as opposed to normal faxes):
Further information:
FaxChange after a routine installation automatically reduces fax priority to 'low' what allows two things:
Automatic change of faxmailing priority in coordination with configuring ADS is described in more detail here.
With normal fax messages FaxChange tests if text of the message can be joined with the cover page so as not to exceed the size A4. If it is possible, FaxChange joins them. With faxmailing (standard FaxChange configuration) message linking with the cover page is suppressed which shortens necessary fax preparation time.
Within the registry, in the key KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/Datasys/faxchange/global/server/ are the following values:
If you are sending one fax to 1000 addressees from conventional fax server, result is a fax queue and also archive containing 1000 complete faxes. Furthermore, if the fax is a four page document (cover page + three pages of content) this equates to 1000 * 4 physical documents and therefore tens of unnecesarily taken MB's. In this case only the cover page content is variable, all fax bodies are exactly the same.
FaxChange processes such faxes differently. In the output queue is present only one fax body which is shared between all fax messages. Each fax has its own cover page and therefore, in the above example there are 1003 pages in the queue just as in the archive - content of the fax is archived only once and every fax has archived its coverpage.
Maximum faxmailing processing speed was paid close attention during FaxChange developing. Example: processing of 500 addressees - the fax for the first addressee in the queue is complete in less than 2 minutes. Preparation of all 500 faxes for transmission is completed in 9 minutes 40 seconds.
Test conditions: FaxChange 3.0, Windows NT4.0 server, PC machine with Intel 133 processor and 64 MB of RAM. MS Exchange server ran simultaneously on the computer. Cover sheet "default.cvs" which is delivered with standard installation of FaxChange was used.
FaxChange up to version 3.0 used cover pages in the RTF format. Newer versions FaxChange along with other changes introduced a new cover page format - CVS. The processing of this format is faster, more effective and the result is exactly as the page designer sees it in the CVS editor.
We recommend to use coverpages in the CVS format. FaxChange still allows use of RTF cover pages, however, faxmailing is optimised for the use of CVS coversheets. By another words: if RTF coversheets are used then fax processing will take longer (considerably longer for faxmailing) than with CVS cover sheets.