Brother MFC-8460N User Manual 3

I-Fax (Internet Fax)

Last Updated: 16th May 2007
Author: James Evans (BIE P&S Product Planning)

Machines included:

HL-4040CN
HL-4050CDN
HL-4070CDW
DCP-9040CN
DCP-9045CDN
MFC-9440CN

MFC-9840CDW

Contents

1) Overview

2) Benefits to the customer

3) How to Configure I-Fax

4) How to send an I-Fax

5) Technical Information

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DCP-8060
DCP-8065DN
MFC-8460N

MFC-8860DN
MFC-8870DW

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1: Basic Overview

I-Fax enables you to send and receive faxes over the Internet.

2: Benefits to the customer

• Its allows you to use another medium to transport faxes other than over conventional a

phone line

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2: How to configure

Before sending or receiving an Internet fax you must configure your Brother machine to communicate with
your network and mail server. You must ensure the following: a correctly configured IP address for your
machine, an E-mail address for your machine, the mail servers IP address, mailbox name and password
for your Brother machine. To do this, simply follow the following instructions.

1. Log onto the printer remotely through a web browser

2. Click on ‘Network Configuration and enter your username and password if prompted. The default user
name is ‘admin’ and the default password is ‘access’.

3. Click on ‘Configure Protocol’ and ensure that POP3/SMTP is enabled then click on ‘Advanced Settings’

4. Here you will need to configure the Brother machine with information about your email server (Please
refer to next page for a detailed explanation of how to do this)

This is the location of
your SMTP server and
associated SMTP port
address. The standard
port number for SMTP
is 25

If your require SMTP
server requires
authentication, please
input the necessary
information here.

Some features of this
machine, like I-Fax, allow
you to send and receive
emails to it. Please
assign your printer an
email address to make
use of these features.

If you use POP 3, please
enter your POP3 details in
here. The standard port
number for this email system
is 110.

Click here if you use APOP

(more secure version of
POP3)

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5. When you have filled in the necessary information, click on ‘Submit’

6. After a short while you will be asked if you want to send a test email to ensure a connection had been
established with your email server. Please enter an email address and click ‘Submit’.

7. After a few moments you will be shown a screen showing if the connections to the email server were
successful. If they were not, please go back and check your settings. If they were, you should receive a
confirmation email.

8. Please click on submit to go back to the original configuration screen.

9. When you are happy with your email settings, please click on ‘Network Configuration’ in the list above,
which will take you back to the main screen. Once at the main screen, please click on ‘I-Fax’ at the
bottom right corner.

I-Fax

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