Patent ID: 7064855

Claim:
An image data communication apparatus connected to an image data source and to a network, and transmitting image data attached to an e-mail to a receiving apparatus via the network, the e-mail including a mail message, the image data attached to the e-mail as an openable document, the image data communication apparatus comprising: a memory configured to store default information; a panel section configured to input information regarding an identification of a user into the image data communication apparatus; and a controller configured to set the default information into the mail message of the e-mail to which the image data is attached when the information regarding the identification of the user is not input by the panel section; the controller being configured to set the information regarding the identification of the user, input by the panel section, into the mail message of the e-mail to which the image data is attached when the information regarding the identification of the user is input, whereby opening, at the receiving apparatus, of the attached image data is not required to determine the information regarding the identification of the user.