GFI FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP Manual GFI FAXmaker - an overview • 5
Figure 5 - GFI FAXmaker installed on a separate machine
If using Active Directory, you must ensure that the e-mail address of
each GFI FAXmaker user has been entered in Active Directory. If you
don’t use Active Directory you have to configure the name and email
address of the GFI FAXmaker users.
How it works from the client
All faxes sent by users from the FAXmaker Fax Message form are
sent via the e-mail client to the dedicated fax mailbox. If the user
wants to send a fax using the new message form of the Lotus Notes
client, the user has to address the email to number@FAX. Lotus
Notes will forward the mail to a POP3 mailbox. This “fax mailbox” must
be dedicated to the fax server. GFI FAXmaker will download the
email, convert it to fax format and fax it out. Then it will mail back a
delivery report to the user. The same principle is applied to SMS
messages.
How GFI FAXmaker works with an SMTP/POP3 server
If you have an SMTP/POP3 server such as VPOP3 or Mdaemon you
have to choose whether you want GFI FAXmaker to collect faxes to
be faxed out via POP3, or whether you want to configure your mail
server to forward the faxes via SMTP to the GFI FAXmaker server.
If you choose the latter then the machine must be installed on a
separate machine (see figure 3). The first option allows you to install
GFI FAXmaker on the mail server machine it self (See figure 4),
however does not allow users to send faxes directly from their e-mail
client.
If using Active Directory, you must ensure that the e-mail address of
each GFI FAXmaker user has been entered in Active Directory. If you
don’t use Active Directory you have to configure the name and email
address of the GFI FAXmaker users.
How it works from the client
If you have configured GFI FAXmaker to retrieve faxes via POP3, all
faxes sent by users from the FAXmaker Fax Message form are sent
via the e-mail client to the dedicated fax mailbox. GFI FAXmaker will
download the email, convert it to fax format and fax it out. Then it will
mail back a delivery report to the user. The same principle is applied
to SMS messages.
If you have configured your mail server to forward all faxes via SMTP
to the separately installed GFI FAXmaker fax server, then all faxes
sent by users from the FAXmaker Fax Message form will be sent via
the e-mail client using the SMTP format
number@faxmaker.com. If
the user wants to send a fax from their email client, then the user has
to address the email to
number@faxmaker.com. The SMTP/POP3
mail server is then configured to forward mails sent to the
faxmaker.com domain to the GFI FAXmaker fax server via SMTP. The
GFI FAXmaker fax server receives the faxes via SMTP and using a
sink captures the fax and converts it to fax format and faxes it out.
Then it will mail back a delivery report to the user. The same principle
is applied to SMS messages.
