Patent ID: 7305440

Claim:
An image communication apparatus receiving an e-mail, the e-mail including a header and a body, the body including a message, the message including an image data part, the image communication apparatus comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit an e-mail with data attached, via a computer network; a receiver configured to receive an e-mail with data attached, via the computer network; and a controller configured to convert the attached data to image data; and the controller further being configured to search for a predetermined image data fixed code in the image data part of the body of the e-mail when the received e-mail is a multi-part structure, and to judge that the received e-mail is an error mail, the error mail being related to the e-mail transmitted by the image communication apparatus, when the predetermined image data fixed code is detected, the predetermined image data fixed code being set into the image data part of the body of the e-mail by the image communication apparatus.