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How Your Brother Machine Receives an Internet Fax (I-Fax)
When your Brother machine receives an incoming I-Fax, it will print the I-Fax automatically. To receive an I-Fax, we recommend using the control panel or Web Based Management to configure the following optional items:
- Auto Polling
- Polling Frequency
- Print Mail Header
- Delete/Read Receive Error Mail
- Send Delivery Notification (Receive)
There are two ways you can receive email messages:
- POP3/IMAP4 receiving at regular intervals
- POP3/IMAP4 receiving, manually initiated
When using POP3/IMAP4 receiving, the machine polls your email server to receive data. Polling can occur at set intervals (for example, you can configure the machine to poll the email server every ten minutes) or you can manually poll the server.
- If your machine starts to receive email data, the LCD displays [Receiving]. The email will be printed automatically.
- If your machine is out of paper when receiving data, the received data will be held in the machine's memory. This data will be printed automatically after paper is reloaded in the paper tray.
- When the machine's Temporary Fax Backup Function is turned on, received data will be stored for a certain period of time.
- If the received mail is not in a plain text format, or an attached file is not in the TIFF-F format, the error message "ATTACHED FILE FORMAT NOT SUPPORTED." will be printed.
- If the received mail is too large, the error message "E-MAIL FILE TOO LARGE." will be printed.
- If Delete/Read Receive Error Mail is On (default), then the error mail will be deleted from the email server automatically.