Patent ID: 7953807

Claim:
An electronic mail apparatus comprising: a processor and a memory; a communicating unit that communicates an E-mail; an address storing unit that stores at least one address; a discriminating unit that discriminates, in a case where said communication unit receives the E-mail, whether an address of a transmitting source of the received E-mail is previously stored in said address storing unit; and an editing unit that, in a case where the received E-mail is a specified format and it is discriminated by said discriminating unit that the address of the transmitting source of the received E-mail is previously stored in said storing unit, edits the content stored in said address storing unit in accordance with information included in the received E-mail, wherein said editing unit does not edit, even if the received E-mail is a specified format, the content stored in said address storing unit in a case where it is discriminated by said discriminating unit that the address of the transmitting source of the received E-mail is not previously stored in said storing unit.