Patent ID: 9083559
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An internet facsimile apparatus, comprising: an original reading unit, constructed to read an image on an original; an internet facsimile transmitting unit, constructed to send, as transmission of an internet facsimile, an E-mail accompanied by an image file of the read image to a transmission destination via an E-mail server connected to a communication network; a receiving unit, constructed to receive a delivery status notification for the sent E-mail from the E-mail server; a managing unit, constructed to manage communication management information concerning the plural E-mails sent by the internet facsimile transmitting unit, wherein the communication management information includes information indicating a sending result of each of the plural E-mails; and a judgment unit, constructed to judge whether the sending result of a sent E-mail indicates failure, based on a delivery status notification for the sent E-mail from the E-mail server, wherein the delivery status notification is generated by the E-mail server and is indicative of a delivery status of the sent E-mail by the E-mail server to a recipient, and wherein the judgment unit makes the judgment based on the delivery status of the sent E-mail indicated by the delivery status notification, wherein the managing unit sets information being a judgment result of the judgment unit and indicating whether the sending result of the sent E-mail indicates failure, to the communication management information of the sent E-mail.