Mar 22, 2021

E-Fax Capability Now At SSA

      From Emergency Message EM-21023: 

Any SSA employee that has access to Microsoft Outlook has the ability to send and receive faxes electronically via their Outlook email client. Sending an outbound fax by email is similar to sending a normal email. The only difference is that the fax will go to the recipient’s fax machine instead of an email address. ...    

This enables SSA employees to fax digital files easily from their email client instead of using a fax machine/multifunction device. In addition, incoming faxes can be delivered to a shared mailbox as a PDF file, enabling users to receive faxes by email. ...


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a great development. Now if they could just issue laptops that weren't outdated bricks that are so slow they are next to useless, we'd really be getting somewhere.

Anonymous said...

This has been around for months. Desktop faxing. Really great, and we actually have our office's main fax line routed to an Outlook inbox, so a few folks in the office monitor it electronically and route everything to the file etc.

Just another thing cut out of the loop for in-office requirements.

Anonymous said...

yeah not really news here unless the FOs/DOs in Operationsland only recently got this...OHO got this and was trained on it...gosh, maybe two years ago? Maybe more? Before COVID, definitely.