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I-Fax (Internet Fax)
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Last Updated: 16 May 2007
Author: James Evans (BIE P&S Product Planning)
Machines included:
HL-4040CN
HL-4050CDN
DCP-8060
HL-4070CDW
DCP-8065DN
DCP-9040CN
MFC-8460N
DCP-9045CDN
MFC-8860DN
MFC-9440CN
MFC-8870DW
MFC-9840CDW
Contents
1) Overview
2) Benefits to the customer
3) How to Configure I-Fax
4) How to send an I-Fax
5) Technical Information
1: Basic Overview
I-Fax enables you to send and receiv
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2: How to configure Before sending or receiving an Internet fax you must configure your Brother machine to communicate with your network and mail server. You must ensure the following: a correctly configured IP address for your machine, an E-mail address for your machine, the mail servers IP address, mailbox name and password for your Brother machine. To do this, simply follow the following instructions. 1. Log onto the printer remotely through a web browser 2. Click on ‘Network Con
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5. When you have filled in the necessary information, click on ‘Submit’ 6. After a short while you will be asked if you want to send a test email to ensure a connection had been established with your email server. Please enter an email address and click ‘Submit’. 7. After a few moments you will be shown a screen showing if the connections to the email server were successful. If they were not, please go back and check your settings. If they were, you should receive a confirmation e
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10. You are now ready to configure the more advanced settings for ‘I-Fax’. These advanced settings give you access to the email send and receive details, relay function and fax to server. The following instructions guide you through how to configure them. This is the main menu where you can select either one of the four settings: • E-mail Send • E-mail Receive • Relay Function • Fax to Server Email Send Here you can configure the subject of you email as well as limiting t
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Relay Function Use this if you want to configure a email broadcast (this will send the ‘I-Faxed’ document to everybody within a specified domain Here you can specify the domains. Specify if you want a relay broadcast report Clicking on ‘Submit’ will return you to the main ‘I-Fax Settings’ menu. Clicking on ‘Cancel’ will do the same but will disregard any settings Fax to Server which you have changed. Here you can relay a fax to a server and have that perform ot
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4: How to send an I-fax Sending an Internet fax is the same as sending a normal fax. If you have already programmed the addresses of the destination Internet fax machines as One Touch or Speed-Dial locations, you can send the Internet fax by loading the document into the machine, use the Fax Resolution key to set the preferred resolution and select a Speed-Dial number and pressing Mono/Colour Start. If you wish to manually enter the Internet fax address load the document into the machine
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4.4 - Forwarding received E-mail and fax messages 13 You can forward received E-mail or standard fax messages to another E-mail address or fax machine. Received messages can be forwarded via E-mail to a computer or Internet fax. They can also be forwarded via standard phone lines to another machine. The setting can be enabled using the web browsers or through the machine front panel. 4.5 - Relay broadcasting 13 This function allows the Brother machine to receive a document over the I
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Relay broadcast from a computer You can also send E-mail from your computer and have it relayed to a conventional fax machine. The method of entering the phone number of the conventional fax machine that will receive the relayed E-mail will vary depending on the mail application you are using. The following are some examples of different mail applications: Some E-mail applications do not support sending to multiple phone numbers. If your E- mail application cannot support multi
