Can a Brother HL-L2395DW printer do scan to direct email?
Is it possible for a Brother HL-2395DW printer to directly email a scan? I have the printer configured to send email to my (SMTP-AUTH protected) email server, and verified (via the web access page) that the printer can send a test email to any address via that SMTP server.
But the instructions for the printer only talk using the email client on some network-local-to-printer computer as the way to send a scan via email.
Is there any hidden/non-obvious option to get the printer to use the configured SMTP server to email scans?
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Turns out there is a way to directly email, though it still does not appear it can be done by using a specified mail server, more's the pity.
- Hit "Scan"
- When the touchscreen gives you the choice between "to PC" and "Web Services", pick "Web Services"
- Then pick "Scan to Email" (or "Easy Scan to Email").
- Now you can enter an email address and do the scan and the scan will be directly emailed to that address.
Looking at the headers of the received email I see it going through Amazon SES. Interestingly, I don't see any indication in the headers that it went through a Brother server first (though I assume any such Received headers could be stripped out in whatever SES processing Brother has set up).
TL;DR - Doesn't look like you scan directly to email using an SMTP server of your choice, but if you're willing for the scans to go over the internet and through Amazon SES you can do scan directly to email.
