

Note:If you accept a fax call with a telephone connected to the FRITZ!Box, simply forward the call to a FRITZ!Box answering machine. Click "Next" and then "Apply" to save the settings.To send faxes, you must select at least one telephone number that is then also used for receiving faxes. It is not possible to configure the FRITZ!Box to only send faxes.The recording will be discarded after it recognizes a fax call. With this operating mode, the time interval is too short fax recognition. Do not select the operating mode "Greeting only". The greeting delay may not be too long because incoming fax calls hang up then. Configure the answering machine so that it accepts the call after 10 to 25 seconds. For fax recognition to function, a FRITZ!Box answering machine must answer the call. Or: Do not select any numbers, and then automatic fax recognition is used for fax reception.Then the fax will accept all calls to these numbers and faxes are received automatically.


The number(s) is/are then also used to receive faxes. If you want to send and receive faxes, enable at least one telephone number to send faxes with.Whether you must select numbers depends on whether you would like to receive and/or send faxes. When you select telephone numbers, the fax answers all calls to these numbers and you can no longer receive telephone calls to these numbers. Define the telephone number for the fax function.Otherwise, you will experience errors when receiving faxes because they can no longer be saved. If you want to remove the USB storage device or enable the USB remote connection, you must disable this option first. Enable the option " Save on the USB storage medium" if you want received faxes to be saved on a USB storage device connected to the USB port on the FRITZ!Box.Enable the option " Save internally" if you want received faxes to be saved to the FRITZ!Box's internal memory.The fax function is re-enabled when emails can be sent again or the FRITZ!Box is restarted. This way, senders do not receive positive transmission reports for faxes that are lost. However, note that faxes are lost and the fax function is disabled if the fax is not successfully forwarded as an email and the fax is not saved on a storage device. If you want to enter several email addresses, separate them by a comma and do not add spaces between If you enabled email forwarding, you can enable the option " Do not save".

