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What Internet Fax Can Do
Direct Internet Fax Transmission (Using Direct SMTP)
Email is normally distributed by an SMTP mail server using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
In common cases, only Internet Email and Web service are permitted into the corporate intranet, and
corporate network administrators are extremely unwilling to open the firewall for other incoming services,
since each opened path represents additional potential security threats.
The Direct Internet Fax feature enables documents to be directly exchanged between Internet Fax stations
without the intervention of the SMTP mail server. This will reduce the workload of the SMTP mail server.
To use the Direct Internet Fax feature, set Fax Parameter No.172 (DIRECT IFAX XMT) to "2:Valid".
For more details on network configuration, contact your network administrator.
SMTP Authentication
The Internet's emergence as a worldwide digital infrastructure has dramatically encouraged a market for
communications-oriented appliances. However, the no object security technique has gained widespread
and dominant use over the Internet due to several reasons.
1. Internet mail is a multi-hop store and forward architecture, and use of channel-based security is generally
difficult.
2. No single technique is recommended by the Internet Fax standard.
To improve and make the system robust, Authentication through encryption based techniques are provided
as a typical solution. The techniques may be associated with the transmission channel, such as by using
Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL).
Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) take advantage of Internet mail service by providing an
Authentication feature.
Your machine provides the following three Authentication options.
1. SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (SMTP AUTH) -- while sending
2. Lightweight challenge-response mechanism POP (APOP) -- while receiving
3. POP before SMTP -- performs POP procedure prior to every SMTP transaction
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