OpenText Fax CE 25.4: What’s New in RightFax (and What Matters Most)

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Paperless Productivity

Posted on: March 17, 2026

OpenText Fax CE 25.4 focuses on three areas: AI-assisted workflows, stronger admin control, and tighter integrations. The release doesn’t change how fax fits into your business—but it removes a lot of the friction around it.

Here’s what stands out and where it impacts daily operations.

AI Enters The Fax Workflow (Fax Aviator)

The headline feature is Fax Aviator AI, a set of assistants built into the platform:

  • Assist – guides users through sending and handling faxes
  • Route – sends inbound faxes to the right destination automatically
  • Summary – condenses long documents into a short overview
  • Extract – pulls key data (IDs, names, fields) from fax content

These tools reduce manual review and routing work.

Where this shows up:

  • Healthcare: summarize multi-page referrals before review
  • Insurance: extract claim data without rekeying
  • Finance: route sensitive documents without manual sorting

This is most relevant in high-volume environments where staff spend time reading, sorting, and re-entering information. The value is speed and fewer handling errors within existing core workfows.

Web Apps: Simpler & Easier To Use

The web interface gets a visual refresh and small usability fixes.

  • Cleaner layout
  • Option to reveal passwords during entry

These are minor changes, but they reduce friction for new users and cut down on basic support issues.

Admin Updates: More Control, Fewer Workarounds

Administrative tools continue to improve, especially in Enterprise Fax Manager (EFM) and Web Admin.

  • Longer field lengths for configuration
  • Ability to create and edit destination tables directly in Web Admin
  • Linked accounts and improved user selection tools
  • Added debugging options

These updates reduce the need for workarounds in complex environments. Teams managing large user bases or detailed routing logic will notice the difference.

FaxUtil & Tracking: Better Visibility

Fax history and user interaction tracking are more detailed.

  • Tracks who resent or forwarded a fax
  • Improved scrolling and usability
  • Access archived faxes via Web Delivery URL
  • Duplicate handling safeguards
  • Search for users when routing or forwarding

Granular logging has always been one of RightFax’s strengths, and this further improves auditability for regulated customers.

Integration Updates: Meet Users Where They Work

Two notable additions:

  • Outlook Add-in now supports both Microsoft 365 and on-prem Exchange
  • Salesforce integration allows faxing directly within CRM workflows

This reduces context switching. Users can send and receive faxes without leaving core systems.

Improvements for EU Customers

OpenText expands connectivity and usability customers in the EU:

  • New EU-based Cloud Connect server for data residency requirements
  • Support for EU time formats

MFP, Gateway, And Delivery Reliability

Several updates target fax reliability and delivery integrity:

  • Sentinel files verify attachments are complete before sending
  • HTTPS support for secure transfers
  • VPN-free connectors for SAP and AWS environments
  • Extended timeouts for MFP connector registration
  • Email Gateway supports file drop or POP3 for outbound faxing

These changes reduce partial transmissions and failed jobs—common pain points in scan-to-fax workflows.

Security Enhancements

Security is further strengthened across the platform to better align with current expectations and best practices:

  • Stronger default TLS settings
  • AWS Secrets Manager support (Private Cloud)
  • 12-character minimum passwords
  • AS-SIP support

Deprecated & Removed Components

OpenText continues to phase out legacy elements, helping to simplify long-term maintenance and reduce exposure to outdated components:

  • Older runtimes removed
  • Strong passwords can no longer be disabled
  • Notes Module is being retired (SMTP Gateway is the path forward)

Planning Your Upgrade

RightFax 25.4 doesn’t introduce a new architecture or force a workflow redesign. Rather, it improves how fax works inside the systems you already rely on.

  • AI reduces manual handling
  • Admin tools reduce system friction
  • Integrations reduce context switching
  • Reliability updates reduce failed transmissions

Customers running OpenText Fax in a cloud model will see the most impact—especially from Fax Aviator.

If you want help evaluating 25.4, migrating to the cloud, or enabling AI-assisted workflows, then contact Paperless Productivity® to schedule a review.

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