Patent ID: 7552180

Claim:
An image communicating apparatus which is connected to a network capable of performing E-mail communication and has an E-mail communicating function, comprising: a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory medium; an E-mail transmitting unit, adapted to send E-mail data accompanied by an image file; a requesting unit, adapted to selectively add, to the E-mail to be sent, information indicating to request a receiver of the E-mail to send a message disposition notification (MDN); a communication managing unit, adapted to manage transmission information of each sent E-mail which comprises information indicating a transmission result of each sent E-mail; an updating unit, adapted to, in a case (1) where said E-mail transmitting unit sends the E-mail to which the information indicating to request the message disposition notification (MDN) is not added by said requesting unit, update the transmission information by information indicating that said requesting unit does not request the MDN and information indicating that the transmission result of the sent E-mail is succeeded, and adapted to, in a case (2) where said E-mail transmitting unit sends the E-mail to which the information indicating to request the message disposition notification (MDN) is added by said requesting unit, update the transmission information by the information indicating whether or not to receive the MDN for the sent E-mail, and, if the MDN for the sent E-mail is received, update the information indicating the transmission result included in the transmission information based on a content of the received MDN; and an output unit, adapted to perform, based on the transmission information updated by said updating unit, visible output for each of the sent E-mail so as to be able to list (a) information indicating whether or not the information indicating to request the MDN is added to the sent E-mail, (b) information indicating whether or not the MDN is returned for the sent E-mail for which the MDN was requested, and (c) a transmission result of each of the sent E-mail, wherein, if the information indicating to request the MDN is not added to the sent E-mail, the information indicating that the transmission result of the sent E-mail is successful.