Call Screening

Enabling / Disabling Call Screening - HotWire EasyFax can automatically screen incoming "junk" faxes.  These are nuisance, spamming, advertising and other types of unwanted faxes that tie up your fax lines when you need them to be available. To enable HotWire's Call Screening capabilities you must choose the Admin->Call Screening option off the HotWire main menu. If a small checkbox is present to the left of the Call Screening option on the menu it means that call screening is currently enabled.  The absence of the checkbox means that call screening is disabled.  When call screening is enabled, as soon as a connection is established with an incoming fax, HotWire obtains the remote systems ID string and, if present in the "reject" database, drops the line immediately and recycles, waiting for the next connection.

In order for HotWire to know which faxes to disconnect they have to be entered into the "reject" database. This is accomplished by selecting the Admin->Call Screening option off the main menu.  Upon selecting this option you are presented with a small popup dialog that allows you to manage the reject database.  Enter any new ID strings from the top of an incoming fax or from the From Who column of the list of received faxes in the FaxVue fax viewer program into the edit box at the top of the dialog and press the    button.  To remove an entry from the database simply select it in the listbox with the mouse and press the    button.  Press    when you're done making your changes.  The listbox on the left side of the dialog  contains a list of all connects that will be screened.  The right hand side of the dialog contains text display area which contains the status of the call screening facilities.