Network User's Guide

Internet fax
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How to Internet fax 8
Before using an Internet fax you must configure your Brother machine to communicate with your network and
mail server. You must ensure the following items of your machine. You can configure these items from the
control panel, Web Based Management, Remote Setup or BRAdmin Professional 3. If you are unsure of any
of these items, please contact your systems administrator.
 E-mail address
 SMTP, POP3 server address/port/Authentication method
 mailbox name and password
Sending an Internet fax 8
Before sending an Internet fax 8
To send the Internet fax, you can configure following items from the control panel, Web Based Management
or Remote Setup.
 Sender Subject (if needed)
 Size Limit (if needed)
 Notification (if needed) (For more information, see TX Verification Mail on page 62)
How to send an Internet fax 8
Sending an Internet fax is the same as sending a normal fax. (For more information, see the Basic User’s
Guide.) If you have already programmed the addresses of the destination Internet fax machines as One
Touch or Speed-Dial locations, you can send the Internet fax by loading the document into the machine. If
you want to change the resolution, use the Fax Resolution to set the preferred resolution, choose a
Speed Dial or One Touch number, and press Black Start/Mono Start or Color Start/Colour Start. (S.Fine
is not supported for Internet fax.)
Note
• If you wish to manually enter the Internet fax address, load the document into the machine and press Shift
and 1 simultaneously to change into the “alphabet” dialing mode. For Touchscreen models, press .
Press to choose numbers, characters or special characters. Enter the address and press OK or OK,
and then press Black Start/Mono Start or Color Start/Colour Start.
For more information how to enter text, see the Quick Setup Guide.
• You can register the E-mail address information from Web Based Management or Remote Setup.
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 key during scanning. After the
transmission is finished, the machine will return to standby mode.
Note
Some E-mail servers do not allow you to send large E-mail documents (the System Administrator will often
place a limit on the maximum E-mail size). With this function enabled, the machine will display
Out of Memory when trying to send E-mail documents over 1 Mbyte in size. The document will not be
sent and an error report will be printed. The document you are sending should be separated into smaller