4.1 Understanding the Status Window

The status window is a monitoring window that allows you to monitor incoming calls, log calls, manually answer calls and more.

When a call comes into STFax, and you have Caller ID enabled on your modem/telephone, you will see the number of the caller. If the number is within your phonebook, and there is a name attached to this, you will also see the name of the incoming caller. If there are notes attached to this person (within the phonebook), you will see some notes.

The notes are designed to remind you of the status/importance of the incoming caller. For instance, if you had 'Sue Wright' in your phonebook, and she was the local sales person for a double-glazing window company, you would see the number, her name and you could have the note "Double-glazing saleswomen calling!" as the note.

Cancel/Hangup Icon - cancel the current action. You could stop a fax being sent, stop replying to a phone number and more.


Manual Answer Icon - manually answer the incoming call. If you have auto answer turned off, you could automatically answer the call via this button. If you have auto-answer on, and rings set to a high number, you could manually intercept the call before STFax automatically answers the call.


Ignore Icon - tell STFax to override auto-answer and ignore the incoming call. Perhaps you have STFax set to auto-answer, notice a call is incoming from an unwanted source; just press this 'ignore caller' button. STFax will ring and ring, and the caller will think no-one is at home.


Previous (entry within the call log) Icon - the status window logs the number and name of incoming calls. Say you leave STFax running, you get a call where someone doesn't leave a message (it happens), but you have Caller ID enabled, you could use the previous/next buttons to move through the call log.


Next (entry in the call log) Icon - - the status window logs the number and name of incoming calls. Say you leave STFax running, you get a call where someone doesn't leave a message (it happens), but you have Caller ID enabled, you could use the previous/next buttons to move through the call log.


Reply Icon - reply to a phone number left within the all log. If you are out, come home and find that a caller has called, but not left a message. As long as you have Caller ID enabled on your modem/line, and the number is available, you could reply to that caller using this button.