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Relay Broadcast from Your Brother Machine

Related Models:MFC‑L2805DW / MFC‑L2806DW / MFC‑L2861DW / MFC‑L2885DW / MFC‑L2886DW
Use the Relay Broadcast Function to send an email from your machine to a conventional fax machine.

Confirm the POP3/IMAP4/SMTP Client and SMTP Server checkboxes are selected in Web Based Management. If the POP3/IMAP4/SMTP Client and SMTP Server checkboxes are not selected, select the POP3/IMAP4/SMTP Client and SMTP Server checkboxes. Click Submit, and then restart your machine.

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  1. The Internet

In this example, your machine's email address is FAX@brother.com and you want to send a document from your machine to a standard fax machine in England with the email address UKFAX@brother.co.uk, and you want your machine to send the document using a conventional telephone line.

MFC-L2805DW/MFC-L2806DW

To use this feature, you must register the email addresses as the Shortcut numbers or Speed Dial numbers.

  1. Press image (Fax).
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Hold down the Shortcut button, and then enter the one-digit Shortcut number.

    • Press image (Address Book), and then enter the three-digit Speed Dial number you have registered.

      Press OK.

  3. Press Start.

MFC-L2861DW/MFC-L2885DW/MFC-L2886DW

  1. Do one of the following:
    • If Fax Preview is set to [Off], press [Fax].

    • If Fax Preview is set to [On], press [Fax], and then press [Sending Faxes].
  2. Press [Options].
  3. Press image or image to display the [Broadcasting] option.
  4. Press [Broadcasting].
  5. Press [Add Number].
  6. You can add email addresses to the broadcast in the following ways:
    • Press [Add Number]. Press image, enter the email address and press [OK].
    • Press [Add from Address book]. Press the checkbox of the email address you want to add to the broadcast. After you have checked all the email addresses you want, press [OK].
    • Press [Search in Address book]. Enter the name and press [OK]. The search results will be displayed. Press the name and then press the email address you want to add to the broadcast.
    The following is an example of how to enter the email address and phone number:
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    After you have entered all of the fax numbers, press [OK].
  7. Press [Fax Start].
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