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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2018
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, Aichi, JP;
Tetsuya Okuno, Aichi, JP;
Hironori Takasaki, Ogaki, JP;
Tony Lee, Aichi, JP;
Katsunori Enomoto, Toyokawa, JP;
Toyoshi Adachi, Kakamigahara, JP;
Yuqing Liu, Aichi, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
In an image forming apparatus, a controller is configured to receive an e-mail stored in a mail server through a network interface, generate identification information corresponding to image data attached to the received e-mail, store, in a storage, the identification information, a transmission source address of the e-mail to which to the image data corresponding to the identification information is attached, and the image data corresponding to the identification information, in an associated manner, cause a printer to print a particular image corresponding to the identification information, identify the identification information in the particular image read by an image reader, retrieve, from the storage, the transmission source address of the e-mail to which the image data corresponding to the identification information identified in the identifying process, and transmit an e-mail addressed to the transmission source address retrieved in the address retrieval step to the mail server.