Patent ID: 7259886

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a server for carrying out transmitting and receiving of mail with an information apparatus through a communication line or a network and a printing apparatus for carrying out printing by acquiring the printing information stored in said server, said server being equipped with: a receiving section configured to receive mail which is transmitted by the information apparatus and which has an ID attached thereto; an extracting section configured to extract the ID from the mail received by the receiving section; a searching section configured to search whether the ID extracted by the extracting section is an ID registered beforehand; a reading section configured to read out a user name corresponding to the ID where the ID extracted by the extracting section is the ID registered beforehand; a first determination section configured to determine whether the mail received by the receiving section includes an attached file; a second determination section configured to determine whether the attached file is compressed, where the first determination section determines that the mail received by the receiving section includes the attached file; a decompressing section configured to decompress the attached file where the second determination section determines that the attached file is compressed; and a registering section configured to register the attached file which is decompressed by the decompression section or the attached file which the reading section determines as not being compressed, such that the attached file is registered under the user name read out by the reading section.