An apparatus for transmitting and receiving messages.

摘要

A telefacsimile-type apparatus (1,2) for transmitting and receiving includes automatic message-enveloping means (12,22). The apparatus (2) further includes means (231) for delivering an identity signal concerning the possible availability of an enveloping facility, upon receiving a call from another apparatus (1); means (132) for receiving an identity signal concerning the possibility of an enveloping facility from another (2) apparatus; and means (133) for sending to the called apparatus (2) a control signal in response to a separate identity signal received from the called apparatus (2), and in response to the setting of activating means (1331) having one setting which corresponds to ordering a transmitted message to be enveloped and another setting which corresponds to ordering the message not to be enveloped. <IMAGE>