摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To use Internet facsimile, without increasing communication cost needlessly by arbitrarily receiving an electronic mail in facsimile equipment corresponding to the Internet. SOLUTION: This facsimile equipment 10 is provided with a NCU 14, a modem 15, a transformer 16, an ISDN controller 17, a scanner 18, a plotter 19, an image storage memory 20, an operation panel 22, etc. In such a case, a CPU 11 receives only an electronic mail corresponding to a selection condition set from an ISP mail box undergoing dial-up connection by using an IMAP and receives all electronic mails from the ISP mail box by using a POP at a time zone such as midnight, unless, e.g. an operation panel 2 instructs to download an electronic mail by the POP.
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