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Email-to-fax
Email-to-fax
Email-to-fax is a delivery mechanism ideally suited to remote fax integration because it does not require a direct
network connection to the fax server, nor access to the fax server file system. A network connection from the fax
server to an incoming (POP3) Internet mail server is necessary, and your application must have emailing capability.
Configuration and setup
The email to fax feature is normally setup during VSI-FAX installation. However, if for some reason you did not do this
when your fax server was installed, you can do it now by performing the following:
1. Verify the integrity of the network connection between the fax server and your incoming (POP3) Internet mail
server.
2. Create a dedicated fax email account on your incoming (POP3) Internet mail server.
Tip
We recommend creating this account with the user name autofax as it is unlikely this name is already in
use.
The remainder of this section will assume that you are using autofax for your POP3 email-to-fax account. If
you decide to use another name, substitute that name in our examples.
Important
This email account must be set aside strictly for faxing. The fax server will assume that any message in
this email inbox is a fax and will process it accordingly. Therefore, ensure that the autofax email address
is not added to any email groups or corporate mailing lists.
3. Configure the fax server to monitor the autofax email account.
You can do this using the VSI-FAX Server Administration snap-in or by manually modifying settings in the
$VSIFAX/lib/vsisrv.ini configuration file.
1. Enter your incoming (POP3) Internet mail server host name, fully qualified Internet domain name or IP
address.
If you are Do this
Using the MMC
snap-in
Go to the Fax Server Email Gateway properties and enter the host name, domain
name, or IP address in the Pop Host name field.