Patent ID: 8854696

Claim:
A facsimile device comprising: a facsimile receiving unit configured to receive facsimile data transmitted from a transmission source device; a storing unit configured to store at least one of identification information and transmission source information of the facsimile data received by the facsimile receiving unit in a storing portion and to associate the identification information with the transmission source information, wherein the identification information distinguishes the facsimile data received by the facsimile receiving unit from other facsimile data received by the facsimile receiving unit, and the transmission source information indicates the transmission source device of the facsimile data; a message transmitting unit configured to transmit a message to an external device in response to receiving the facsimile data from the transmission source device, the message including the at least one of the identification information and the transmission source information of the facsimile data stored in the storing portion; a message receiving unit configured to receive a message transmitted from the external device or from another external device; an attached file determining unit configured to determine whether the message received by the message receiving unit includes an attached file; a converting unit configured to convert data of the attached file into facsimile-transmission data when the attached file determining unit determines that the message includes the attached file; and a facsimile transmitting unit configured to facsimile-transmit the facsimile-transmission data converted by the converting unit to the transmission source device indicated by the transmission source information stored in the storing portion in association with the identification information when the message received by the message receiving unit includes the identification information.