Patent ID: 7251678

Claim:
A network facsimile apparatus comprising: an e-mail transmitting and receiving mechanism configured to transmit and receive an e-mail; an information inputting mechanism configured to input destination information and individual-specific user information inherent to an individual-specific user who sends said e-mail; and a communication controller configured to: transmit image information from the network facsimile apparatus using facsimile transmission when said input destination information, associated with the image information, does not include an e-mail address; transmit the image information using said e-mail through the e-mail transmitting and receiving mechanism when said input destination information, associated with the image information, includes the e-mail address, set a value of a “From” field of a header of said e-mail to a calling e-mail address specific to said individual-specific user and set a value of “Subject” field of said e-mail to unique contents set to the network facsimile apparatus when the calling e-mail address is included in the individual-specific user information input through the information inputting mechanism, and set the value of the “From” field of the header of said e-mail to an apparatus unique address of the network facsimile apparatus and set the value of “Subject” field of said e-mail to the individual-specific user information when the calling e-mail address is not included in the individual-specific user information, wherein said values of “From” and “Subject” fields of said e-mail are used by recipient of said e-mail for estimating the content of said e-mail.