Patent ID: 7624150

Claim:
A communication apparatus comprising: a receiver, adapted to receive e-mail data to which an image file is attached from an e-mail server in accordance with a transmission request; a reproduce unit, adapted to reproduce an image based on the image file attached to the e-mail data received by said receiver; a determining unit, adapted to determine whether the image based on the image file attached to the e-mail data received by said receiver is reproducible by said reproduce unit or not; a generating unit, adapted to generate error information in a case where said determining unit determines that the image is not reproducible; and a printer, adapted to print the image reproduced by said reproduce unit in a case where said determining unit determines that the image is reproducible, and to print the error information generated by said generating unit instead of printing the image file attached to the e-mail data received by said receiver in a case where said determining unit determines that the image based on the image file attached to the e-mail data received by said receiver is not reproducible, wherein the error information includes information for specifying the e-mail data, received by said receiver, to which the image file corresponding to the image determined to be not reproducible by said determining unit is attached.