Patent ID: 8265670

Claim:
A communication apparatus comprising: an e-mail creating unit configured to create the e-mail with specifying an e-mail address of a destination; an e-mail transmitting/receiving unit configured to transmit/receive the e-mail; a display unit provided with a received mail display area for displaying a received e-mail set if necessary and a created mail display area for displaying an e-mail being created; and a control unit configured to set the received mail display area and display the received e-mail if the e-mail is received during creating the e-mail and the e-mail address of a sender of the received e-mail matches with the e-mail address of the destination of the e-mail being created, wherein the control unit displays one received e-mail among a plurality of the received e-mails on the received mail display area if the e-mail address of the sender of a plurality of the received e-mails matches with the e-mail address of the destination of the e-mail being created in the case where the plurality of e-mails are received during creating the e-mail, and wherein the control unit displays one received e-mail among the plurality of received e-mails on the received mail display area by switching the received e-mail at a predetermine time interval.