Patent ID: 7610346
Filing Date: 2009-10-27
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An e-mail transmission apparatus capable of transmitting an e-mail to which image data is attached, comprising: a setting unit adapted to set a transmission destination address, and a reply destination address; a first transmitting unit adapted to transmit an e-mail, to which image data is attached, to the transmission destination address; a generation unit adapted to, if a transmission error due to size excess of the e-mail transmitted by said e-mail transmitting unit occurs, generate retransmission confirmation e-mail related to retransmission confirmation information for making a user of a client apparatus corresponding to the reply destination address to designate a request for a retransmission of the e-mail in which the transmission error has occurred; a second transmission unit adapted to transmit the retransmission confirmation e-mail generated by said generation unit to the reply destination address set by said setting unit; a receiving unit adapted to receive reply information indicating that the retransmission of the e-mail is requested by the user of the client apparatus in case that the retransmission of the e-mail is requested by the user of the client apparatus in response to a transmission of the retransmission confirmation e-mail; and a retransmission unit adapted to transmit an e-mail attached to image data, whose size is smaller than a size of the image data attached to the e-mail in which the transmission error has occurred, to the transmission destination address set by said setting unit in a case where the reply information is received by said receiving unit; and a registration unit adapted to register the retransmission confirmation information in an apparatus different from the client apparatus, wherein the generation unit generates the retransmission confirmation e-mail which contains reference information for referring to the retransmission confirmation information registered by said registration unit.