Patent ID: 6947160

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus comprising: a facsimile communication section which has a plurality of network channels to be used in facsimile communication; an e-mail communication section which transmits/receives e-mail; a channel selection information table which stores a plurality of said network channels and channel selection information corresponding to each of the plurality of said network channels; and a channel selecting section which specifies said network channel to be used with reference to said channel selection information table based on said channel selection information, when an e-mail, which includes said channel selection information and dialing information of a transmission destination, is received, wherein said facsimile communication section uses said specified network channel to transmit image information of said received e-mail to a transmission destination designated by said dialing information by facsimile, wherein, when said channel selection information table has no channel selection information extracted from said received e-mail, said apparatus provides a notification, indicating that said channel selection information is improper, to a sender of said received e-mail.