Internet facsimile apparatus and internet transmitting apparatus
View Patent ↗A plurality of destination mail addresses for broadcast transmission input from a panel control section is temporarily stored in an address data buffer. An address reading control section reads the destination mail addresses from the address data buffer in order to divide the plurality of destination mail addresses to a plurality of groups in unit of setting value M. A mail creating section creates e-mail directing to a destination mail address belonging to each group. This makes it possible to limit the number of destination mail addresses, which is input to a destination filed [To:] of one e-mail, to the setting value M. Also, this makes it possible to prevent a header portion from being needlessly increased at the time of broadcast transmission.
1. An Internet facsimile apparatus comprising:
a control panel configured to input an e-mail address of a destination;
a controller configured, when a plurality of the e-mail addresses are input for Internet transmission of the same image data, to:
divide the plurality of the input e-mail addresses into a plurality of predetermined e-mail address groups;
generate a plurality of e-mails including the divided e-mail addresses in accordance with each of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups;
convert image data into a data format for said Internet transmission;
attach the same converted image data to the plurality of the generated e-mails; and
transmit each said e-mail to which the same converted image data is attached, to each said destination,
wherein a header field of each said transmitted e-mail includes the divided e-mail addresses for each respective predetermined e-mail address group of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups.
2. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to divide the plurality of the input e-mail addresses into each of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups in accordance with a respective predetermined number of e-mail addresses.
3. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to divide the plurality of the input e-mail addresses into each of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups having the same domain name.
4. The Internet facsimile apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a memory configured to store information regarding the predetermined e-mail address groups corresponding to each the e-mail address, wherein the controller is configured to divide the plurality of the input e-mail addresses into each of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups, based on the information regarding the predetermined e-mail address groups stored in the memory.
5. An Internet facsimile transmission method comprising:
inputting an e-mail address of a destination;
dividing a plurality of the input mail addresses into a plurality of predetermined e-mail address groups when the plurality of the e-mail addresses are input for Internet transmission of the same image data;
generating a plurality of e-mails including the divided e-mail addresses in accordance with a each of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups;
converting image data into a data format for the Internet transmission;
attaching the same converted image data to the plurality of the generated emails; and
transmitting each the e-mail to which the same converted image data is attached, to each the destination,
wherein a header field of each said transmitted e-mail includes the divided e-mail addresses for each respective predetermined e-mail address group of the plurality of the predetermnined e-mail address groups.
6. The Internet facsimile transmission method according to claim 5 , wherein the plurality of the input e-mail addresses are divided into each of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups in accordance with a respective predetermined number of e-mail address.
7. The Internet facsimile transmission method according to claim 5 , wherein the plurality of the input e-mail addresses are divided into each of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail address groups having the same domain name.
8. The Internet facsimile transmission method according to claim 5 , further comprising storing information regarding the predetermined e-mail address groups corresponding to each the e-mail address, wherein the plurality of the input e-mail addresses are divided into each of the plurality of the predetermined e-mail groups, based on the stored information regarding the predetermined e-mail address groups.