Facsimile device and program product for facsimile printing

Abstract

It is intended to provide a facsimile device and a program product for facsimile printing capable of surely making a user know receipt of an irregular e-mail such as an error mail or the like, without requiring extra volume of memory, while preventing waste of paper. When an e-mail is received, there is detected whether a printing mode is set or a not-printing mode is set for a body part of an e-mail in # 2. Even though a not-printing mode is set for a body part of an e-mail (# 2: No), the body part is printed in # 8 in case the e-mail is not accompanied by an attached file of predetermined format (# 5: No). Therefore, even if a not-printing mode is set, the facsimile device can make a user know receipts of irregular mails such as an error mail, an e-mail without an attached file of predetermined format, and rough causes of the irregular mails.

1 . A facsimile device, comprising:
 an e-mail transmitting unit that transmits an e-mail to a destination address;   an e-mail receiving unit that receives an e-mail, having a body part, addressed to an e-mail account allocated to the facsimile device;   an attached-file discriminating unit that determines whether the e-mail that the e-mail receiving unit has received is accompanied by an attached file;   an error mail discriminating unit that determines that the e-mail received by the e-mail receiving unit is an error mail which notifies that the e-mail transmitted by the e-mail transmitting unit is undelivered when the received e-mail is not accompanied by the attached file; and   a print determining unit that orders printing of the body part of the e-mail determined as the error mail.   
     
     
         2 . A facsimile device according to  claim 1 , wherein the attached-file discriminating unit determines that the e-mail is accompanied by the attached file only when the e-mail that the e-mail receiving unit has received is accompanied by the attached file of a predetermined facsimile document format. 
     
     
         3 . A program product for facsimile printing installed on a computer of a facsimile device that receives an e-mail, having a body part, addressed to an e-mail account allocated to the facsimile device, the program product comprising:
 a computer readable medium; and   a computer program stored on the computer readable medium, the computer program causing the computer to:   determine whether the e-mail that the facsimile device has received is accompanied by an attached file;   determine that the e-mail received by the facsimile device is an error mail which notifies that an e-mail previously transmitted by the facsimile device is undelivered when the e-mail is not accompanied by the attached file; and   order printing of the body part of the e-mail when the e-mail is determined as the error mail.   
     
     
         4 . A program product for facsimile printing according to  claim 3 , wherein only the e-mail that is accompanied by the attached file of a predetermined facsimile document format is determined as the e-mail accompanied by the attached file.