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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2000
Yoshio Yoshiura, Ninomiyamachi, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention provides a facsimile apparatus having an E-mail transmission/reception function, which can correctly transmit the contents of a file attached to E-mail even when the file cannot be opened on the other party side. A document file as a file attached to E-mail is transmitted from a transmitting facsimile apparatus and received by a receiving facsimile apparatus. If the attached file cannot be normally opened by viewer software or another application of the facsimile apparatus, the apparatus transmits, as a reply to the received E-mail, an error message containing contents representing that the error has occurred, and a facsimile number to be used by the other party for retransmission to the transmitting facsimile apparatus. When the received E-mail contains an error message, the transmitting facsimile apparatus searches for the attached file to be retransmitted by referring to, e.g., the mail title or mail text. The transmitting facsimile apparatus converts the contents of the attached file into an image and retransmits it to the receiving side in accordance with the normal facsimile transmission procedure.