Patent ID: 8593667

Claim:
A printing apparatus which can print a file attached in a received mail, comprising: a judging section which (i) judges whether or not the attached file in the received mail is printable, and if the attached file is printable, (ii) judges whether a mail address of the printing apparatus is included in a Blind Carbon Copy (“BCC”) field of the received mail; a confidential file storing section configured to store the attached file in the received mail if the mail address of the printing apparatus is included in the Blind Carbon Copy field; an operation panel that receives an input of a print request of the attached file stored in the confidential file storing section; a transferring section that, i) if the attached file is unprintable on the basis of a judgment result of the judging section, generates a first transfer mail which contains a file name of the unprintable file and transfers the first transfer mail to a first predetermined transfer destination, and ii) if the attached file is printable on the basis of a judgment result of the judging section, generates a second transfer mail which contains a file name of the printable file and transfers the second transfer mail to a second predetermined transfer destination; and a printing section that (i) receives a print request from the operation panel to print the attached file, and (ii) prints the attached file from the confidential file storing section in the case where (a) the judging section determines that the attached file is printable and (b) the requesting user is permitted to print the attached file.