Patent ID: 7136464

Claim:
An electronic mail providing system comprising a mail server, a WWW server and an output apparatus, wherein said mail server comprises: first receiving means for receiving an electronic mail; determining means for determining whether or not the received electronic mail can be displayed on a destination device of the received electronic mail; transferring means for transferring the received electronic mail to said WWW server, if said determining means determines that the destination device can not display the received electronic mail; identification code receiving means for receiving, from said WWW server, an identification code for identifying the transferred electronic mail; and notifying means notifying the received identification code to the destination device, wherein said WWW server comprises: storing means for storing an address of the destination device in correspondence with the identification code; address receiving means for receiving, from said mail server, the address of the destination device, included in header information of the electronic mail; and saving means for saving the identification code corresponding to the received address, in correspondence with the transferred electronic mail, and wherein said output apparatus comprises: identification code inputting means for inputting an identification code in response to user's operation; identification code transmitting means for transmitting the input identification code to said WWW server; second electronic mail receiving means for receiving, from said WWW server, the electronic mail corresponding to the transmitted identification code; and display means for displaying the electronic mail.