[hylafax-users] What is a "polling operation"?

["Nico" <tricera@inwind.it>]

From man pollrcvd:
"bin/pollrcvd is the command script invoked by the HylaFAX server 
whenever  a  facsimile is received as a result of a polling operation"
So, what is a "polling operation"?
Thank you,
Nico



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