Patent ID: 6963417

Claim:
An Internet facsimile apparatus comprising: a control panel configured to input an e-mail address of a destination; a controller configured, when a plurality of the e-mail addresses are input for Internet transmission of the same image data, to: divide the plurality of the input e-mail addresses into a plurality of predetermined e-mail address groups; generate a plurality of e-mails including the divided e-mail addresses in accordance with each of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups; convert image data into a data format for said Internet transmission; attach the same converted image data to the plurality of the generated e-mails; and transmit each said e-mail to which the same converted image data is attached, to each said destination, wherein a header field of each said transmitted e-mail includes the divided e-mail addresses for each respective predetermined e-mail address group of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups.