I had thought of something like that. Then he would have to get call forwarding and he lives in Los Angeles. I'm trying FaxMail for Windows. They have a new version that should be available in a couple of days that would allow you to change the mail ports from 25/110 to something else, such as what googlemail uses and this friend uses.

Currently he's using XP professional with a modem and then I have him set up with remote desktop, but it's just a bit too complicated for him and having the fax in email form would enable him to send it on. If it's in PDF, then he could edit it with Adobe Acrobat full version.