In a message dated 9/3/2006 4:50:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, Ema609@aol.com writes: hi . So far i only have aol mail. a lot of people seem to have outlook and i believe you need it if you want to fax . can somebody give me advice about it .ty ev Hi, Ev- If you are using AOL mail you can't use Outlook with AOL mail although you may have it installed if you use MS Office. Are you on a phone connection or cable? You can't fax on a cable line--you have to be on a phone line and you would need to have fax capability installed on your computer. Joan