Brother I-FAX MFC-8460N User Manual

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I-Fax (Internet Fax)
Last Updated: 16
Author: James Evans (BIE P&S Product Planning)
Machines included:
HL-4040CN
HL-4050CDN
HL-4070CDW
DCP-9040CN
DCP-9045CDN
MFC-9440CN
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 receive faxes over the Internet.
2: Benefits to the customer
I-Fax
th
May 2007
Its allows you to use another medium to transport faxes other than over conventional a
phone line
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DCP-8060
DCP-8065DN
MFC-8460N
MFC-8860DN
MFC-8870DW
Copyright 2007 Brother International Europe

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  • Page 1 I-Fax enables you to send and receive faxes over the Internet. 2: Benefits to the customer • Its allows you to use another medium to transport faxes other than over conventional a phone line I-Fax DCP-8060 DCP-8065DN MFC-8460N MFC-8860DN MFC-8870DW Copyright 2007 Brother International Europe...
  • Page 2: How To Configure

    3. Click on ‘Configure Protocol’ and ensure that POP3/SMTP is enabled then click on ‘Advanced Settings’ 4. Here you will need to configure the Brother machine with information about your email server (Please refer to next page for a detailed explanation of how to do this)
  • Page 3 9. When you are happy with your email settings, please click on ‘Network Configuration’ in the list above, which will take you back to the main screen. Once at the main screen, please click on ‘I-Fax’ at the bottom right corner. I-Fax Copyright 2007 Brother International Europe...
  • Page 4: Email Send

    This field is named “MDN”.MDN (Mail Disposition Notification): This field requests the status of the I-Fax/E-mail message after delivery through the SMTP (Send Mail Transfer Protocol) transport system. Copyright 2007 Brother International Europe...
  • Page 5: Relay Function

    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 which you have changed. Copyright 2007 Brother International Europe Specify if you want a relay broadcast report...
  • Page 6: Manually Entering Text

    Press Mono Start or Colour Start to send the document. After the document is scanned, it is transmitted to the recipient Internet fax machine automatically via your SMTP server. You can cancel the send operation by pressing the Stop/Exit button during scanning. After the transmission is finished, the machine will return to standby mode.
  • Page 7: Forwarding Received E-Mail And Fax Messages

    4.5 - Relay broadcasting This function allows the Brother machine to receive a document over the Internet, and then relay it to other fax machines through conventional telephone lines. If you wish to use your machine as a relay broadcast device, you must specify the domain name that you trust at the machine, in other words, the portion of the domain after the “@”...
  • Page 8 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.

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