Patent ID: 7287059

Claim:
A printing processing apparatus which receives E-mail from an external apparatus, comprising: an address storing unit that stores at least one E-mail address; a discriminating unit that determines whether or not an address of a transmitting source of the received E-mail is stored in said address storing unit; a print processing unit that, if the received E-mail includes data to be printed and it is determined by said discriminating unit that the address of the transmitting source of the received E-mail is stored in said address storing unit, executes a printing process on the basis of the data included in the received E-mail; and an editing unit that, if the received E-mail includes an edit command for editing contents stored in said address storing unit and it is determined by said discriminating unit that the address of the transmitting source of the received E-mail is stored in said address storing unit, edits the contents stored in said address storing unit in accordance with the edit command included in the received E-mail.