Operation At The Transfer Station - Gestetner B147 Service Manual

INTERNET MAIL COMMUNICATION

Operation at the Transfer Station

Request by Mail
Transfer
Requester
IFAX
E-mail
LAN
E-mail End
Receivers
Individual E-mail
The IFAX polls the POP3/IMAP4 server at regular intervals. If a transfer request
has come in, it receives the e-mail from the server, then sends the message to the
end receivers by G3 fax or e-mail, depending on the type of end receiver address.
The IFAX sends each G3 fax as an individual transmission. However, for the e-
mail, the IFAX sends the message to the SMTP server once, and the server
broadcasts the message to the e-mail end receivers one at a time.
The Transfer Station sends back a transfer result report to the address in the
"From" field of the received e-mail. If an administrator address is registered, the
result report is also sent to that address. The original may also be attached to the
transfer result report, depending on the G3 settings of the fax machine.
For transmission to e-mail end receivers, the transfer result report only indicates
whether the message was successfully transmitted from the Transfer Station to its
SMTP server. The Transfer Station does not know what happens to the messages
on the way to the end receivers.
If a communication error occurs between the machine and the SMTP server during
result report transmission, the machine prints the result report.
IFAX
SMTP
Server
R
POP/IMAP
R
Transmissions
E-mail (one transmission
for each destination)
R: Router
Transfer
Station
IFAX
Server
E-mail
SMT P
E-mail
Server
(several destinations,
one transmission)
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Individual G3
Transmissions
(PSTN)
LAN
G3 End Receivers
IFAXD605.WMF
SM