Venta4Net Plus 2.8.148.415 Retail

Venta4Net™ Plus is an extended network version of the original Venta4Net network software. In addition to all Venta4Net functions, it is capable of receiving tasks from users by email and sending completion reports back to them. Besides, Venta4Net Plus can also work with clients installed on a terminal server.

Venta4Net Plus the only product in the VentaFax/Venta4Net family offering the following functionality:
- Operation in the two-way email-to-fax and email-to-voice gate mode
- Support of networks with a terminal server and thin clients.

Working with email users

As in the regular version of Venta4Net, the server end of Venta4Net Plus can interact with users who have the client end of the program installed (client end users). Besides, the server end of the Plus version can receive tasks from users by email (email users). Installation of the client end on a user’s computer is not necessary in this case. The user only needs an email program installed (for instance, Windows Mail or Outlook Express). The Venta4Net Plus server can work with client end users and email users at the same time.

The way email users interact with the program is somewhat different from the way it’s used by regular client end users. This is caused by the fact that a lot of document files being converted into facsimile messages need to be opened in associated applications and then be sent to the VENTAFAX virtual printer. In a number of cases, however, conversion takes place without sending the document to a virtual printer.

Users of the client end have a virtual printer installed locally, so the conversion process takes place in front of them and they can visually control it in real time. Email users don’t have the client end and don’t have a virtual printer. Therefore, document files send to the fax by email users are converted using a virtual printer installed on the server end of Venta4Net Plus, and the conversion process cannot be visually controlled. An email user will receive diagnostic messages from the Venta4Net Plus server, including file conversion error notifications, by email.

A Venta4Net Plus license covers a certain number of users comprised of regular and email users. You are free to specify the number of users of both types, but their combined total should not exceed the number of users allowed by the license. The trial version only supports up to 3 users.

Interaction of email users with the Venta4Net Plus server

The Venta4Net Plus server includes an SMTP server that receives emails from email users. Further in this text, we will call it an incoming mail server. The system configuration process is described in detail on the “System deployment recommendations” page. Let’s take a look at a situation where a system has a special subdomain (e.g fax.mydomain.com) and the email subsystem is configured to forward all messages sent to mailboxes in this subdomain to the Venta4Net Plus SMTP server and be processed by it.

When the server receives a message, it validates the sender’s address first. If the sender is not on the list of authorized users, no further actions will be taken. The sender will receive a delivery failure report as if he/she sent a message to a non-existing address.

After that, the program checks whether the domain name specified in the server settings matches that in the recipient’s address.

The server then checks if the extension of the attached file is on the list of allowed formats. If it is, all the attachments will be extracted from the message for further processing. If it’s not, the sender will receive an error notification for each of the incorrect files.

Once done, the system checks the validity of the specified recipient’s phone number. If an incorrect phone number has been provided, the user will receive an error notification.

If the message passes all the checks, a new task will be created in the schedule and the user will receive a corresponding email notification. Depending on the program settings, a message can have a file attached – the result of converting an attached file into the facsimile format, as it was scheduled.

An attached file is added to the schedule directly if it doesn’t require conversion. Such files include facsimile files (TIF or PDF extensions, created in VentaFax or Venta4Net), sound files (WAV and MIX), text files (TXT extension), if the program is configured to use these files as sound messages in the TTS mode, and remote control script files (VFA). If an attached file requires conversion, the program will launch an associated application for sending the document to the virtual VENTAFAX printer. In some cases, it will not be necessary, as the program can convert some file types on its own. Depending on the program settings, if there are several attached files, the program will either create a single task with a multipage fax message or a corresponding number of tasks – one per file.

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