Offramp Gateway - Toshiba GD-1200 Operator's Manual

9. Offramp Gateway

Offramp gateway overview
This function is used to convert an E-mail, received at this equipment as a relay station, into a Fax data
and forward it to another Fax machine through a public telephone line.
It is useful when you want to reduce communication cost by using both the Internet and public telephone
lines. For example, when you want to send a document out of your city or overseas, the document can be
sent as an E-mail to this equipment through the Internet, and then it will be forwarded to a target Fax
machine as a Fax data through a public telephone line.
2. The mail server (toshiba.com) retrieves the
E-mail.
NOTE: The mail server should be configured to
retrieve the E-mail with the forwarding
address of "host1.toshiba.com".
1. The E-mail is sent to
"FAX=xxxxxxx@host1.toshiba.com"
from the Internet Fax machine or
client computer.
Internet FAX
machine
Personal Computer
• P.112 "Transmitting data in offramp gateway"
Mail Server
E-mail
Internet
Intranet
E-mail
Mail Server
4. The E-mail is converted to a facsimile and sent to the G3 Fax through the
public switched telephone network.
5. If the username section of the E-mail address designates the fax number and
the subaddress, the facsimile is sent to the subaddress destination.
3. The mail server transfer the E-mail to
the machine in the SMTP transmission.
NOTE: The mail server should be
configured to retrieve the E-mail
with the forwarding address of
"host1.toshiba.com".
e-STUDIO
(host1.toshiba.com)
ifax@host1.toshiba.com
Mail Server
(toshiba.com)
G3 FAX
Subaddress
Destination
ITU-T Mailbox
*1
5
*1
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