Ricoh B089 - Operation at the Transfer Station

INTERNET MAIL COMMUNICATION
SM 4-17 IFAX
Internet Fax
(IFAX)
Operation at the Transfer Station
Request by Mail
The IFAX polls the POP3/IMAP4 server at regular intervals. If a transfer request
has come in, it receives the e-mail from the server, then sends the message to the
end receivers by G3 fax or e-mail, depending on the type of end receiver address.
The IFAX sends each G3 fax as an individual transmission. However, for the e-
mail, the IFAX sends the message to the SMTP server once, and the server
broadcasts the message to the e-mail end receivers one at a time.
The Transfer Station sends back a transfer result report to the address in the
“From” field of the received e-mail. If an administrator address is registered, the
result report is also sent to that address. The original may also be attached to the
transfer result report, depending on the G3 settings of the fax machine.
For transmission to e-mail end receivers, the transfer result report only indicates
whether the message was successfully transmitted from the Transfer Station to its
SMTP server. The Transfer Station does not know what happens to the messages
on the way to the end receivers.
If a communication error occurs between the machine and the SMTP server during
result report transmission, the machine prints the result report.
SMTP
Server
E-mail
LAN
R
POP/IMAP
Server
E-mail
E-mail
LAN
Individual G3
Transmissions
(PSTN)
Transfer
Station
IFAX
Transfer
Requester
G3 End Receivers
IFAX
SMTP
Server
Individual E-mail
Transmissions
E-mail End
Receivers
R
(several destinations,
one transmission)
R: Router
E-mail (one transmission
for each destination)
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