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What is eFax and what does it do?  
 
eFax is constantly monitoring in a specific directory for documents to send. Within the directory, each document must have a property file for example a document file name '100001.txt', must have the properties in a file name '100001_prop'.  
 
The _prop file contains the information, required to direct the document to the following devices; email, fax or SMS.  
 
Once the document has been received into the system, a history of items is available for viewing. The status of all methods includes; Sending, Sent and Failed items. If a document fails it is possible to re-send the document after a defined number of retries.  
 
The time between monitoring cycles can be adjusted. This can enable fax and email consolidation to be incorporated. This could have a significant cost saving implication for some businesses.  
 
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What are Templates used for?  
 
Templates in OSMOSiS eFax are used to send complete document with logo's and any other graphics you want. If, for example you want to send an invoice via this method, you would scan in the invoice template which you use to print on and allocate a specific document to the invoice template. This will "overprint" the text onto the scanned "picture" document and send the resulting image.  

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