Patent ID: 7081967

Claim:
An image data communication apparatus connected to an image data source and to a network, and transmitting image data attached to an e-mail to a receiving apparatus through a server via the network, the e-mail including a mail from command and a mail message, the image data communication apparatus comprising: a memory configured to store a default e-mail address; a panel configured to input an e-mail address of a user to the image data communication apparatus; and a controller configured to set the default e-mail address into the mail from command of the e-mail to which the image data is attached when the e-mail address of the user is not input by the panel; the controller being configured to set the e-mail address of the user, input by the panel, into the mail from command of the e-mail to which the image data is attached when the e-mail address of the user is input by the panel, the mail from command being utilized for a communication between the image data communication apparatus and the server, whereby, when an error occurs, the e-mail address set into the mail from command of the e-mail is utilized as a destination of a mail error message, the mail error message being returned from the server to the e-mail address set into the mail from command.