Patent ID: 7769812

Claim:
An image communication apparatus comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit an outgoing e-mail with data attached, via a computer network; a receiver configured to receive an e-mail with data attached, via the computer network; and a controller configured to convert the attached data into image data; the controller further being configured to judge whether or not the received e-mail is an error mail, the error mail being related to the e-mail transmitted by the image communication apparatus and representing a failure of an e-mail transmitted by the transmitter to be received, based on a search of a header of the received e-mail for a predetermined character string, the predetermined character string being related to a sender of the error mail, and being set into the header of the received e-mail by a server, and to determine that the received e-mail is the error mail, when the result of the search indicates that the header of the received e-mail includes the predetermined character string.