PageSender Fax Center4.6

I have been a registered user from January 2003. One of the things that has always stood out with the company is their superb customer support before, during, and after a purchase or an upgrade. I use Page Sender in my distance education courses in order to receive proctored exams back for grading. The software has been an indispensable tool in this respect. Just a few minutes ago, I upgraded to v4.x. And, once again the customer support has been second to none. When you must use fax software for work and truly appreciate timely response for help requests from the developer, I wholeheartedly recommend Page Sender.

For those Mac users running current MacOS that do not want to downgrade their OS or have to reboot from another OS version, I have found that by running Windows in emulation mode with VMWare's Fusion, including Windows 10, I can attach my fax modem to the emulator and directly fax documents from using Windows without any charges per page, that is typical with current Mac solutions. Something not often considered when using remote fax technology is that your document is generally being sent unencrypted over the internet to a server, which could be a real security issue as it can expose your document to hackers. This defeats the intent of many institutions using fax for security reasons, as it is a technology that currently prevents such attacks by its hardware based transmission technology.

Psychiatry is only partially correct when he states that "it is sad that [PageSender] is no longer being updated or sold." While developer Smile abandoned further development and support of PageSender at Snow Leopard, you can fortunately still buy PageSender 4.6 and run a licensed copy under Snow Leopard. Through intense (and fortuitous) Google searching, I managed to come across a site that still sells PageSender 4.6. Here are the links that took me to the page where I could buy PageSender: http://sandbox.smileonmymac.net/PageSender/index.html Clicking on the “Buy Now $39.95” PageSender button takes you to: http://sites.fastspring.com/smile/product/pagesender?_ga=1.145680308.1802394830.1394719529 After completing the order, I got an email directly from Smile Support (support@smilesoftware.com) which included a serial number, along with a link to download the software. The download link turned out to be invalid, so I contacted Smile Support by email to ask them to either update the link in their confirmatory email, or to send me a direct link to download the program itself. Fortunately, MacUpdate still maintains a valid link with which to down PageSender, so I am covered in regards to obtaining a disk image of the application with which to install it. But it might be helpful to MacUpdate members if MacUpdate administrators also include the links where the program can still be purchased, instead of mentioning only that the program has been discontinued, with the implication that it can no be bought. My buying experience proves that one can still buy PageSender, although neither the developer nor MacUpdate (yet) makes it easy to do so. Let's hope that both websites do so from this point on. I told Smile that there is still a market for this software, since nothing better has come along to replace it, nor is anything likely ever to be develop to replace it, now that faxing has been so deprecated as a viable communications medium on Mac computers. Yet, there is a need for faxing, and that need is not likely to disappear in the immediate future, so there will always be a need to use fax in certain situations, provided one is willing to use legacy software, legacy hardware, and legacy techniques to get the job done. I could always put my Global Village Teleport Gold and Teleport Gold II modems into service with my Mac II si or my PowerTowerPro clones, but I'd prefer to let those pre-Mac OS X collectibles rest in the attic, while I employ some variant of the Mac OS X to do my faxing. Thanks to PageSender, which I have yet to test out but have purchased based on universally positive recommendations here and elsewhere, I hope to be able to implement broadcast faxing merely by booting up into a previous Mac OS X version, namely Snow Leopard. Sounds good to me!

Crashes on launch under 10.7.3. Deleting the preferences files does not solve the problem. Console log is as follows: PageSender Fax Center[9329]: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value (key: TB Item Identifiers)'

Incompatible with 10.7.3: crashes on launch and cannot be reopened even after deleting the plist. Here is the error: PageSender Fax Center[9329]: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value (key: TB Item Identifiers)'

'Used to be great but since it is lagging in updates with each OS X release the app ran into problems that needed to be " corrected" with reinstalls. Now, it does no longer sends faxes on a brand new iMac Intel i5 running 10.6.6 and brand new Zoom USB fax modem (both a week old). The support team hang in there for a while but I have not heard from them in a several days so I began to use the barebones OS X built in fax support. Since some components of the software were not rewritten from Power PC code when Lion comes without Rosetta that will be the end for PageSender.

Hi .. me again .. I have an update on my comment about dialing .. sorry if I led any astray .. I live in Canada. For local faxes I have set Smart Dialing on ... have entered my area code .. and checked "dial area code for local calls" .... Then when I want to send a local fax ... I enter my area code and the 7 digit number. This works for me .. I hope it works for others as well ..... my apologies for the previous misinfo .

I have been a registered user from January 2003. One of the things that has always stood out with the company is their superb customer support before, during, and after a purchase or an upgrade. I use Page Sender in my distance education courses in order to receive proctored exams back for grading. The software has been an indispensable tool in this respect. Just a few minutes ago, I upgraded to v4.x. And, once again the customer support has been second to none. When you must use fax software for work and truly appreciate timely response for help requests from the developer, I wholeheartedly recommend Page Sender.

Great for sending occasional faxes! Keeps a log, and uses Mac Address book. We send about 10 faxes a day via another Mac running PageSender with Printer Sharing on (and a fax phone line) to make a network fax server. It works, but gets jammed up several times a week. Sometimes requires a delete & remaking of the printer spooler (both ends), or Mac OS restart... Not consistent in that regard. Not great as a fax server. Works great for individual, occasional use, even works great for occasional network use.

No go for me. PageSender has a lot of features I would like to use but limited setup options are completely unacceptable. I use eFax Plus for ougoing faxes and I have Gmail address registered with eFax - PageSender allows me to select eFax as fax service for outgoing faxes, but doesn't have Gmail among email clients. If I select Mail as as my email client (which BTW has my Gmail address among many others) PageSender automatically uses the first (alphabetically) email address of mine from Mail to send fax to eFax service. Of course this address is not registered with eFax and I don't want it to be registered there. There is no way to tell PageSender to use the Gmail address and/or to use Gmail as email client. Bummer...

Works fine....Sure wish it had fax/call sensing like the old Global Village App. THEN it would be perfect

Outstanding support from the programmers! They are fast, friendly and effective in their answers - even though I had not (yet) even paid the shareware fee! I had really big trouble setting the software up for a Hermstedt Webshuttle II ISDN modem. Somehow they figured out from the logfiles I sent them that the "T^" dialing prefix in pagesender was the problem. Removed it and pagesender works like a charm.

chraches often while typing adresses in the print dialog.

I use PageSender at least a couple of times weekly on my PB w/h 10.3.5 installed w/out any problem. I suggest to reinstall Page Sender after any sys upgrade as I seen that some permission matters don't let the app opens or works after updates. If u don't like to reinstall (why?) u can avoid it repairing the permissions w/h Printer Setup Repair (Disk Ut does not do it).

The features this adds to Panther's fax feature are questionable, at best. Hard to see where this is worth $30.

From previous comments on this app it's clear that faxing software is a challenging and mysterious business. FaxSTF Pro totally refuses to connect to some numbers on my 10.3.3 system. Page Sender is better but it's not perfect. With the ability to send multiple pages it's certainly a better choice at the price. I have not had to dump STF; I use both.

I have used Page Sender for 2 years. Unfortunately I now have to give it up after the recent upgrades. Page Sender freezes on the print command. I have had no response from the company re: my problem. Panther fax works but it's like faxing blindfolded. I hope there is a Page Sender fix on the way ...

After excellent results with Page Sender with my previous Mac systems, after "upgrading" to Panther 10.3.5 I have been unable to print to Page Sender fax; the print center tries to print and then stops printing. I have the latest version of Page Sender (3.2). If anyone has found a solution, please let me know, because Panther fax is not acceptable.

Hello, I am using Panther 10.3.5 and when I tried to install Page Sender it sent my system into kernel panic and I had to do a force reboot of the system. Is the software yet updated to support my current (mentioned above) software and if not, when might it be?

I have now used Page Sender from v 2 through 3.2 with OSX 10.1 through the newest 10.3.5 I have never had a problem, never had a crash. This program has connected with every machine I fax, and I fax a LOT, including overseas. Other programs like FaxSTF failed to connect 20% of the time. So far, this one is 100% Just make sure you follow the installation instructions, and start by purging every other fax program before you install. This one's well worth you time to do so.

I was hoping to improve on Panther faxing, but just cannot get Page Sender to work. Faxes stay "on hold" and never get sent no matter how I check and re-check the settings. Uninstalling leaves files behind that seem to intefere with other fax programmes, so do a manual search if you ever decide to ditch it. Not a happy experience, at least Panther faxing worked albeit crudely.

Excellent software and support, never crashed my Mac like other fax applications. Easy to use and the developer answers within a few minutes !

During the up-date settings from the former version were not tranfered. The registration code I had but not the details on how to modify the settings for the ISDN modem

Excellent sw. Better than faxstf. Why not add voice capability for answering machine function. Keep it up!

Sorry, it doesn't work. The page sender protocol says "ok" while the receiving fax machine reports a "connection lost" error (and the pages are received only half. There is no trouble with my fax machine as it receives any other faxes all right (including those sent using the standard OS X built-in fax feature). This is not acceptable. Sorry, no !

...Page Sender!

It just works

Very easy, handy, fancy. I will buy it.

No equal.

Still the best fax program going for the MAC.

Works GREAT! WAY better than FaxSTF Still looking for fax/call sensing.....

This is the best fax software I have used. It is very easy to set up and to use, and it just works. I love it!

Page Sender works. They respond to e-mail in person, promptly. The other doesn't & don't. Nuff said.

I initially had difficulty with Page Sender and then founf their Tech Support to be very helpful. It turns out that you have to remove all traces of previous FAX software (e.g.FAXstf X) or their will be conflicts with use of the modem. I then had trouble with receiving FAXes from Brother machines which was cleared up after several emails from Tech Support. The software is very easy to use both for receiving and sending and being able to automatically email received FAXes is great. This is very good software but it needs updating for the problems found and installation warnings for modem interference problems.

This doesn't get a good write up from me. Very basic, seemingly simple to us. But one catch. It doesn't work. No faxes were delivered successfully and after several attempts to send one to my Mac, one eventually got through. Sorry, can't recommend this one. Jez

PageSender? Hmmm. I don't think so. After trying several times to send a fax, PageSender connects to the recipient...and then cuts out. After uninstalling PageSender twice and re-installing, I thought that would solve the problem. Several attempts have proved unsuccessful, each time the error message comes up. Yes, it is simple to use...but it doesn't work, even, as it claims, with OS X (Jaguar) If anyone has any comments, please do let me know, my email address is newsdesk@graffiti.net. Thanks Liz

After installing PageSender 2.2, I upgraded to 2.3.1 when the 2.2 refused to send any faxes after the first one, though receiving them didn't seem to be a problem. However, I have never been able to send more than one fax in either the original 2.2 or 2.3.1 FaxStf might have been rather cumbersome to use at times, but at least it worked. This one, I am afraid, gets the thumbs down. There are few features, though it is simple to use. Shame, as I had bought the full and not Demo version also to eradicate the Demo Version Logo from the faxes, thinking it might solve the problem as they claim upgrading to 2.3.1 would. But no, it still does not send any faxes and did not delete the Demo Logo from the one fax I did manage to send one, before the software refused to send any more. Not a good choice I am afraid. Suggestions kindly received= SuzieHoyle@yahoo.co.uk SuzieHoyle

This is a refreshing alternative to FAXstf which has become bloated and awkward to use, still insisting on that blasted cover page option ON by default. PageSender gets my money soon!

This is shareware at its best. I love this clean, useful program! Sending my money was a pleasure.