Patent ID: 7398297

Claim:
A receiving Internet facsimile apparatus connectable to a mail server via a network, the receiving Internet facsimile apparatus comprising: a communicator configured to receive, from the mail server via the network, a single e-mail to which a plurality of pages of image data are attached; a decoder configured to decode the plurality of pages of image data attached to the received single e-mail, each of the plurality of pages of image data being defined by compressed image information provided between headers; a memory configured to store the plurality of pages of the decoded image data; and a controller configured to determine whether the memory overflows due to the reception of the single e-mail, to stop receiving the single e-mail when it is determined that the memory overflows due to the reception of the single e-mail, the controller, when the single e-mail is re-received from the mail server after the stop in receiving of the single e-mail, being further configured to re-receive the single e-mail to which the plurality of pages of the image data are attached, to determine that a predetermined page was not stored in the memory when the single e-mail was previously received from the mail server, to decode the predetermined page of the image data attached to a re-received single e-mail, and to store, in the memory, the predetermined page of the decoded image data attached to a re-received single e-mail, the predetermined page being distinct from any of the plurality of pages of the image data previously received from the mail server, wherein the controller is configured to prevent decoding and storing in memory of image data previously received from the mail server.