Patent ID: 7733510

Claim:
An image-attached mail transiting apparatus for performing predetermined image processing for an attached image according to a type of a transmitting terminal with a camera, which transmits an E-mail to which the image is attached, comprising: a type discriminating unit that discriminates, based on a header of the E-mail, the type of the transmitting terminal which transmits the E-mail to be received by the image-attached mail transiting apparatus and the type of the receiving terminal having a display; a parameter deciding unit that decides a first parameter indicating what processing should be performed for the attached image of the E-mail according to the type of the transmitting terminal; and an image processing unit that performs predetermined image processing based on the first parameter for the attached image, wherein the image processed by the image processing unit is substituted for the attached image of the E-mail, and then the altered E-mail, to which the substituted image is attached, is transmitted to a receiving terminal, first groups are set so that at least one of the first groups includes plural types of transmitting terminals, fifth parameters are allocated to the first groups, respectively, and the parameter deciding unit decides the first parameter from the fifth parameters allocated to the respective first groups according to the discriminated type of the transmitting terminal, second groups are set so that at least one of the second groups includes plural types of receiving terminals, fourth parameters are allocated to the second groups, respectively, the parameter deciding unit decides a third parameter from among the fourth parameters allocated to the respective second groups, according to the discriminated type of the receiving terminal, each of the fourth parameters indicates what processing should be performed for the attached image of the E-mail according to the allocated second groups, and the image processing unit performs predetermined image processing based on the decided third parameter for the attached image.