Patent ID: 8854694

Claim:
A communication device, comprising: an input unit specifying a transmission destination telephone number that indicates a facsimile transmission destination; a communication unit transmitting an e-mail to a specified server among servers that are connected to a network; a mail generating unit generating a facsimile server addressed e-mail to which a facsimile server addressed mail address is given, that is a mail address containing one or more numbers of the transmission destination telephone numbers; and a control unit, wherein the control unit controls the mail generating unit and the communication unit in such a manner that, when a plurality of transmission destination telephone numbers are specified as the one or more numbers of the transmission destination telephone numbers by the input unit, the mail generating unit generates a facsimile server addressed e-mail to which a facsimile server addressed mail address is given, that contains the plurality of the transmission destination telephone numbers, and the communication unit transmits the facsimile server addressed e-mail generated by the mail generating unit to a facsimile server, which is regarded as the specified server, as a destination fewer times than the number of the plurality of the transmission destination telephone numbers.