Sending and receiving free fax

FAX is one of the arcane tools that we still have to use at times like a old floppy drive. Unsurprisingly it costs quite a bit to send and receive a fax. For sometime, I used to use faxzero.net for my outgoing fax; but recently switched over to Callcentric.com for my VOIP needs and they handle outgoing fax very well through an ATA adaptor. However receiving fax is not very easy in Callcentric with only one dedicated number (yes, you can purchase another number for fax receiving only for about $3.50). So I use nifty eFax for my incoming fax needs. Unfortunately, free account with eFax does not offer a local number, but that is not a big deal. Efax however loves to install junkware in order to view your fax (they email you a file with .efx extension which must be opened with eFax messenger, and I hate that program). But I found a very old copy of efax messenger that does not happen to install crapware and you can view your .efx files just fine; you can also export your fax to a more common tiff or jpeg format with this program. best of all, this one works absolutely well in 32 bit versions of Vista and Windows XP.