Communication apparatus
View Patent ↗A communication apparatus having a filter function of rejecting mail reception from an address that differs from a permitted address specified beforehand, includes: a transmission unit configured to transmit a mail to a predetermined mail address that differs from the permitted address; a first storage unit configured to store a mail address of a destination; a judging unit configured such that, when there is an incoming mail from a mail address that differs from the permitted address, the judging unit judges whether or not the mail address of the transmitter of this incoming mail matches a mail address thus stored; and a receiving unit configured such that, in a case in which the judging unit has judged that the mail address of the incoming mail matches that thus stored, the receiving unit receives this incoming mail.
1. A communication apparatus having a filter function of rejecting mail reception from an address that differs from a permitted address specified beforehand, comprising:
a first transmission unit configured to transmit a mail to a predetermined mail address that differs from the permitted address;
a first storage unit configured to store the mail address of a destination to which a mail is transmitted by the first transmission unit;
a judging unit configured such that, when there is an incoming mail from a mail address that differs from the permitted address, the judging unit judges whether or not the mail address of the transmitter of this incoming mail matches a mail address stored in the first storage unit; and
a receiving unit configured such that, in a case in which the judging unit has judged that the mail address of the incoming mail matches that stored in the first storage unit, the receiving unit receives this incoming mail.
2. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving unit receives an incoming mail from a mail address stored in the first storage unit a predetermined number of times.
3. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 , including an input receiving unit configured to receive an input of whether or not the filter function is to be disabled when a mail is transmitted to a predetermined mail address that differs from the permitted address,
wherein, in a case in which the input receiving unit has received an input to the effect that the filter function is to be disabled, the first storage unit stores the mail address of the destination to which a mail has been transmitted from the transmission unit.
4. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 , including a second storage unit configured to store the permitted address,
wherein, in a case in which the mail address of the destination, to which the first transmission unit transmitted to a mail, does not match any mail address stored in the second storage unit, the first storage unit stores this mail address.
5. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 , including a second transmission unit configured to transmit the mail address to which the first transmission unit transmitted a mail to a mail server as a rejection cancellation address,
wherein the receiving unit receives a mail when the mail is transmitted from the rejection cancellation address via the mail server.
6. A communication apparatus according to claim 1 , including a removing unit configured such that, in a case in which the judging unit judged that the mail address of the incoming mail does not match that stored in the first the storage unit, the removing unit removes this incoming mail.