Fax Retry Interval

The number of minutes the system waits between retry attempts. The retry interval ranges from 1 to 60 minutes. The default Fax system retry interval time is 10 minutes.

The fax retry interval is used in two ways:

  1. You send a fax to a single party (fax machine), but that fax machine is busy. The fax transmission is retried after the fax retry interval. (The default is 10 minutes.)

  2. There are not enough resources to send the fax. For example, you send a fax to three parties, but your BCM configuration only supports two simultaneous fax sessions. The third fax is sent after the retry interval. (The default is 10 minutes.)

You can change the number of retries and the retry interval to optimize the rate of faxes being sent. For short faxes a lower retry interval works more efficiently. For longer faxes, which might take hours to send, you do not want to run out of retries. A higher number of retries would be better. You decide what types of faxes are typical for your business, and then set the number of retries and retry interval accordingly.