Patent ID: 7148988

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 via the network, the e-mail including a mail from command and a mail message, the image data attached to the e-mail as an openable document, the image data communication apparatus comprising: a memory configured to store default information and a default e-mail address; a panel configured to input information regarding an identification of a user and an e-mail address of a user to the image data communication apparatus; and a controller configured to set the default information and the default e-mail address into the mail message of the e-mail to which the image data is attached when the information regarding the identification of the user and the e-mail address of the user are not input by the panel; the controller being configured to set the information regarding the identification of the user and the e-mail address of the user, input by the panel, into the mail message of the e-mail to which the image data is attached when the information regarding the identification of the user and the e-mail address of the user are input by the panel, whereby opening, at the receiving apparatus, of the attached image data is not required to determine the information regarding the identification of the user, and the e-mail address set into the mail message of the e-mail is utilized as a destination of a reply to the e-mail, the reply being sent form the receiving apparatus.