User`s guide

Receiving Faxes

HotFax MessageCenter lets you receive faxes via two methods:

• Automatically, or

• Manually

USING AUTOMATIC FAX RECEPTION

HotFax MessageCenter automatically detects and begins receiving faxes

unless:

• The Tray program is NOT running, or

• You have not changed your Answer mode options in the

Preferences dialog box (e.g., the Ignore Ring or Receive Data

Only options are selected), or

• You have changed your Answer mode options in the

Preferences dialog box to either Ignore Ring or Receive Data

Only.

To receive faxes automatically HotFax MessageCenter must be running

either in the background via the HotFax Tray program or in the

foreground via the HotFax MessageCenter command console. Note that

when HotFax MessageCenter is set to automatically receive faxes, it will

answer "all" incoming calls through the modem; not just those calls that

happen to be faxes.

If the Tray program is running, a pop-up status message displays above

the Windows System Tray when an incoming fax is detected. See

Viewing and Printing Faxes for further details.

You can customize fax options via the Answer Preferences and the Fax

Setup Options Receive dialog boxes. See online help for details.

USING MANUAL FAX RECEPTION

To receive faxes manually, you may wish to do one or either of the

following in preparation:

• Arrange with the remote fax caller to have the fax sent at a

particular time.

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