JP2002044332A - Facsimile equipment, and image transfer method and storage medium therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a facsimile terminal that can realize a gateway function with a simple setting operation and to provide an image transfer method and a storage medium therefor. SOLUTION: In the case that image data of a received electronic mail is fax-transferred or received facsimile image data are transferred by an electronic mail, when the received electronic mail or facsimile document matches a memory box storage condition set to memory box management information, an image file management information address with respect to the image data of the received electronic mail and facsimile document is stored in a memory box and the image data is transferred to a transmission destination (transfer destination) set to the memory box management information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus, an image transfer method therefor, and a storage medium.
The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus connected to both a public network and a network and having an e-mail transmission / reception function, an image transfer method thereof, and a storage medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a facsimile apparatus connected to a network such as a LAN or the Internet and having an electronic mail transmission / reception function has been devised. In such a facsimile apparatus, a gateway function of transmitting an image received by facsimile by e-mail and transmitting an image received by e-mail by facsimile has attracted attention.

However, in the e-mail procedure,
At present, the methods for specifying the destination of the facsimile to be transferred (usually a telephone number) and the method of specifying the destination of the e-mail to be transferred (usually a mail address) in the facsimile procedure are not standardized at present.
For this reason, in the facsimile procedure, a predetermined F code and a transfer destination mail address are set in one-to-one correspondence, and set.
The method of transferring the received facsimile with the predetermined F code to the transfer destination e-mail address by e-mail, and the promise of describing the facsimile transfer destination in the header information of the e-mail, and describing the received e-mail A method of facsimile transmission to the transfer destination has been devised,
In both cases, a fixed method was set for the apparatus and used.

[0004]

However, when the received e-mail is forwarded by facsimile, the sender (user) inputs an F code or inserts a keyword or the like into the header information of the e-mail. E-mail and facsimile received without such input operation cannot be forwarded as intended.
It was inconvenient for the user.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus capable of utilizing a gateway function with a simple setting for a user, an image transfer method thereof, and a storage medium.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a facsimile apparatus connected to a network, the first communication means for transmitting / receiving electronic mail, and the facsimile apparatus connected to a public network. The second to send and receive facsimile
Communication means, and image file management means for managing image data of an e-mail received by the first communication means and image data of a facsimile received by the second communication means as an image file together with management information of the image file A facsimile apparatus comprising: a transfer destination for transferring the received e-mail by the facsimile or the received facsimile by the e-mail;
Setting means for setting predetermined management information including storage conditions for storing only the e-mail and facsimile to be transferred, and when the received e-mail header information and facsimile transmission information match the storage conditions,
Storage means for storing the image file management information of the image data in the predetermined management information; and image transfer for transferring the image data to a transfer destination in the predetermined management information in which the image file management information is stored. Means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the facsimile apparatus of the first aspect, the image file management information includes at least page management information for managing the image data and destination management information for managing the transfer destination. Characterized by comprising:

A facsimile apparatus according to a third aspect of the present invention is the facsimile apparatus according to the first or second aspect, wherein the image transfer means associates the predetermined management information with the management information of the image file to thereby store the image data. Is transferred.

A facsimile apparatus according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the facsimile apparatus according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein the storage conditions are different for each of the first communication means and the second communication means. The storage condition is included.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image transfer method comprising: a first communication step of connecting to a network to transmit and receive e-mail; and a facsimile transmission to and from a public network. A second communication step;
And facsimile image data received in the second communication step as an image file together with management information of the image file. In the image transfer method, a predetermined management including a transfer destination when the received e-mail is transferred by the facsimile or the received facsimile by the e-mail, and a storage condition for storing only the transferred e-mail and facsimile. Setting the information, and if the received email header information and facsimile transmission information match the storage condition, store the image file management information of the image data in the predetermined management information. A storing step, wherein the predetermined information storing management information of the image file is stored. Characterized in that it comprises an image transfer step of transferring the image data to the transfer destination in the management information.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the image transfer method according to the fifth aspect.
In the image transfer method described above, the management information of the image file includes at least page management information for managing the image data and destination management information for managing the transfer destination.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided the image transfer method according to the fifth aspect.
Or the image transfer method according to 6, wherein the image transfer step transfers the image data by associating the predetermined management information with management information of the image file.

[0013] The image transfer method according to the eighth aspect is the fifth aspect.
The image transfer method according to any one of claims 1 to 7,
The storage condition includes a plurality of storage conditions for each of the first communication step and the second communication step.

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium according to a ninth aspect of the present invention includes a first communication module connected to a network for transmitting and receiving electronic mail and a second communication module for connecting to a public network to transmit and receive facsimile. Two communication modules,
A facsimile apparatus comprising: an image file management module that manages image data of an e-mail received by the first communication module and image data of a facsimile received by the second communication module as image files together with management information of the image files. A readable storage medium storing a program for executing the image transfer method, wherein the program is a transfer destination when transferring the received e-mail by the facsimile or the received facsimile by the e-mail, And a setting module for setting predetermined management information including storage conditions for storing only the e-mail and facsimile to be transferred, and when the received e-mail header information and facsimile transmission information match the storage conditions, The image file of the image data A storage module that stores management information in the predetermined management information; and an image transfer module that transfers the image data to a transfer destination in the predetermined management information in which the management information of the image file is stored. .

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, a CPU 1 as a central control unit
Is a ROM 2 as a program storage area, a RAM 3 for storing (storing) image file management information and memory box management information described later, a BAT 4 as an image memory backup battery, a RAM 6 as a transmission / reception buffer,
LCD 7 as a display unit, KEY 8 as an operation unit, and RW-CODEC as a read / write encoding / decoding device
9. The first CODEC which is a communication encoding / decoding device
14. The second CO which is an image conversion device for e-mail
DEC 17, a first MODEM 15, which is a modem,
Second MODEM 18, HOOK which is a hook detection circuit
20 and NIC 19 which is a network control device
It is connected via a PU bus. The BAT 4 is connected to a DRAM 5 of an image memory for storing received facsimile and e-mail image data.

The RW-CODEC 9 is connected to a contact sensor CS11 for reading a document via an RCNT 10 as an image processing / correction circuit, and an LBP 13 as a laser printer via an LCNT 12 as a recording image processing circuit. It is connected to the. First MOD
The EM 15 and the second MODEM 18 are connected to an external public network via a first NCU 16 and a second NCU 22, respectively, which are network controllers, and the NIC 19 is connected to an external LAN.
Connected to the Internet through.

The CPU 1 controls the entire facsimile machine 100 in accordance with the contents of the program stored in the ROM 2. The program stored in the ROM 2 is divided into operation units called “tasks” according to functions.
The execution order is managed by a program called an “operating system (OS)”, and a plurality of tasks can be processed in a pseudo-parallel manner.
The above-described tasks are mainly a document reading operation described below, a recording operation on a recording sheet, a transmission / reception operation by a facsimile procedure, a telephone operation to a public network, and a transmission / reception operation by an e-mail procedure.

At the time of reading a document, CS11 reads a signal obtained by reading a document (not shown).
To perform shading correction, binarization, and image conversion processing, and input the image data to the RW-CODEC 9 by serial communication. The input image data is RW-
The image data is expanded in an internal RAM (not shown) of the CODEC 9, compressed and encoded by an encoding unit (not shown), and stored in the DRAM 5 as an image file. Further, the image file management information address is included in the image file management information including the reception number of the image data stored in the DRAM, the destination information, the number of pages, the number of lines of each page, the read width of each page, and the image memory block information. RAM granted
3 is stored. When a plurality of image data exist, an image file management information address corresponding to each image data is assigned. The image data stored in the DRAM 5 is backed up by the BAT 4.

At the time of a recording operation on recording paper, image data encoded and stored in the DRAM 5, that is, encoded image data, is decompressed and decoded by a decoding unit (not shown) of the RW-CODEC 9, and the image data is stored in an internal RAM. Will be expanded as The developed image data is RW-CODE
The data is output as serial data from a recording unit (not shown) of C9 to the LCNT 12, subjected to image data correction and image conversion processing by the LCNT 12, output to the LBP 13, and printed out on recording paper by the LBP 13.
In addition, the LCNT 12 transmits an abnormality inside the LBP 13 to the CPU 1 as a status.

At the time of transmission operation by the facsimile procedure,
After establishing synchronization according to the ITC standard and the T30 protocol between the present apparatus 100 on the transmitting side and another apparatus on the receiving side, the image encoded data stored in the DRAM 5 is decoded by the decoding unit of the first CODEC 14 ( (Not shown), and is expanded as raw image data in a buffer (not shown) in the DRAM 5. The expanded image data is reduced by the CPU 1 as needed, and expanded again in the buffer. Thereafter, the image data is stored in the first CODEC.
The data is encoded into transmission data by an encoding unit (not shown) at 14 and transferred to the RAM 6. The transmission data transferred to the RAM 6 is transmitted to the first NCU 16 by the first MODEM 15.
Is transmitted to the external public network one byte at a time via

At the time of the receiving operation by the facsimile procedure,
After establishing the above-mentioned synchronization between the other apparatus on the transmission side and the apparatus 100 on the reception side, the received data is the first data.
Is input to the first MODEM 15 via the NCU 16, and is demodulated and transferred byte by byte to the reception buffer of the RAM 6. The received data transferred to the receive buffer is
The image data is decompressed and decoded by a decoding unit (not shown) of the first CODEC 14, an image error is checked, and the image data is expanded as image data in its internal RAM. The expanded image data is compression-encoded by an encoding unit (not shown) of the first CODEC 14 and stored in the DRAM 5. Further, similarly to the above-described document reading, an image file including a reception number of image data stored in the DRAM 5, destination information, the number of pages, the number of lines of each page, a reading width of each page, image memory block information, and the like. An image file management information address is added to the management information and stored in the RAM 3.

At the time of telephone operation to the public network, an operator (operator) is connected to the handset HA connected to the HOOK 20.
When the NDOK 21 is lifted, it is detected by the HOOK 20 and switched to a vacant line of the public network by the second NCU 22 to connect to the line.

At the time of transmission / reception operation by the e-mail procedure,
Communication between the device 100 and a mail server device (not shown) connected via a LAN or the like is performed using a TCP / IP transport layer transmission protocol according to a network connection communication management procedure and SMTP. At the time of sending an e-mail, the image data stored in the DRAM 5
The data is converted into a MIME format by the second CODEC 17 and sent from the NIC 19 to the mail server device. When receiving an e-mail, N
An e-mail is received from the mail server device via the IC 19, and the image data attached to the e-mail is
It is stored in M5, decoded into recordable image data by the second CODEC 17, and stored in the DRAM 5 again. Further, similarly to the above-described document reading, the image file management information of the image data stored in the DRAM 5 is given an image file management information address and stored in the RAM 3.

An operator (user) performs a predetermined operation via the KEY 8 to specify a communication means by facsimile or e-mail, input a transfer destination, start a document reading process, start transmission, instruct a stop, and an apparatus. And setting of memory box management information and the like to be described later. KE
Key input data input via Y8 is detected by CPU 1 and necessary data is displayed on LCD7. The set contents are stored and held in the RAM 3.

Next, a memory box of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing management information of a memory box in the facsimile apparatus 100 of FIG.

In FIG. 2, a memory box is a virtual storage area assumed in the RAM 3 of the apparatus 100, and stores management information for managing received facsimile and e-mail image data as image files. It is to be stored. The management information of the memory box includes “(1) memory box number”, a transfer destination set for each communication unit (for example, “(2) transmission destination 1 (FA
X), “(3) Destination 2 (mail)”), “(4)
There are attributes consisting of “memory box storage condition”, “(5) image file management information address”, “(6) print of stored image”, and “(7) password at the time of printing”. Is stored.

The storage in the memory box in the present embodiment refers to an image file management information address (for example, “0X1000000” in FIG. 4A described later) given to each image data of the received facsimile and electronic mail.
0)) in the image file management information address attribute in the memory box management information.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of memory box storage conditions in the memory box management information of FIG.

In FIG. 3, it is possible to set a plurality of storage conditions for enabling storage of image files relating to received facsimile and electronic mail in the memory box for each communication means (reception line type). This storage condition, when received by facsimile (FAX), is based on ITU Recommendation T.40 in the transmission information. It is valid when at least one of the source telephone number “TSI”, the “F code”, and the direct dial-in number “DDI” specified in 30 is set. In the case of receiving an e-mail, the fields in the header information of the e-mail include “from:” column, “to:” column, and “s:
This is valid when at least one of the following values is set in the “subject:” field, “domain”, “character string included in header”, and “character string included in text”.

FIGS. 4A and 4B are schematic diagrams of the image file management information in the memory box management information of FIG. 2. FIG. 4A shows the image file management information of the image file management information address "0X10000000", and FIG. This is image file management information of the information address “0X10000010”.

The image file management information address “0X10000000” in the memory box management information of FIG.
The image file management information shown in FIG. FIG. 4B shows image file management information following the image file management information file shown in FIG.

The image file management information includes “image file number”, “file management information address of next image”,
There are attributes consisting of “page management information address” and “destination management information address”, and values corresponding to these are stored. In particular, the “next image file management information address” is used when storing a plurality of related image files in the same memory box, and stores the next image file management information address. If the next image file does not exist, “none” is stored.

In this embodiment, when the received facsimile and e-mail match the preset memory box storage condition, the image file management information relating to the image data is stored in the predetermined memory box management information.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the page management information in the image file management information of FIG. 4. FIG. 5A shows the page management information of the page management information address “0X20000000”.
(B) is the page management information of the page management information address “0X20000010”.

The page management information address "0X20000000" in the image file management information of FIG. 4 is associated with the page management information shown in FIG. FIG.
(B) is a page management information file following the page management information file of FIG. 5 (a).

The page management information is created for each page constituting the image file, and the page management information includes
"Page number", "Next page management information address",
There are attributes including “page width”, “resolution”, “number of lines”, and “image memory block number”, and values corresponding to the attributes are stored. In particular, the address at which the image data is actually stored can be obtained by referring to the image memory block management table (FIG. 7) corresponding to the "image memory block number". The image data is stored in the image memory block in the DRAM 5 corresponding to this address (FIG. 8).

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of destination management information in the image file management information of FIG.

The destination management information shown in FIG. 6 is associated with the destination information address in the image file management information of FIG. The destination management information stores a destination (transfer destination) to be transmitted, and a transfer destination is associated with each image file.

Next, image data storage processing and image data transfer processing in the facsimile apparatus 100 shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a process of storing image data in the facsimile apparatus 100 of FIG. Note that the memory box management information including the memory box storage conditions is stored in advance in the facsimile
It is assumed that it is set (created) within 00.

In FIG. 9, when the facsimile or e-mail reception process is completed (step S11), the RAM
It is determined whether or not the memory box management information has been created in Step 3 (step S12). If the memory box management information has been created, the memory box management information is received with reference to the memory box storage condition (FIG. 3). It is determined whether or not there is an attribute for which a value is set for the communication means (facsimile or electronic mail) (step S13). As a result of this determination, if there is an attribute for which a value is set for the received communication means, the value set in the transmission information such as TSI in the received facsimile and the header information such as the domain in the e-mail is stored in the memory box storage condition. It is determined whether or not the value matches the value set in (step S14).
If they match, the image file management information address given to the received facsimile or e-mail image data is stored (written) in the memory box management information (step S15), and the process ends. This allows
Only the facsimile and the e-mail received from the partner set in the attribute of the memory box storage condition are stored in the memory box.

As a result of the determination in step S14, when the value set in the transmission information in the received facsimile and the header information in the e-mail does not match the value of the attribute set in the memory box storage condition, step S13
The subsequent processing is performed to determine whether or not there is any other attribute for which a value is set. Further, as a result of the determination in step S13, when there is no other attribute to which a value is set, the processing after step S12 is performed, and it is determined whether or not other memory box management information is created. If the memory box management information has not been created, this process is terminated without any other transfer.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a process of transferring image data in the facsimile apparatus of FIG.
This process is periodically executed in parallel with the process of FIG.

In FIG. 10, it is determined whether or not the management information of the memory box has been created in the RAM 3 (step S21). If the management information of the memory box has been created, its transmission destination (FIG. 2) , It is determined whether or not a value (telephone number of transfer destination, mail address, etc.) is set (step S22). As a result of this determination, if a value is set for the transmission destination, the image file management information address of the memory box management information (FIG. 2)
It is determined whether or not there is a value, that is, whether or not an image is stored (step S23). When an image is stored, the destination management information (FIG. 6) is stored based on the transmission destination of the memory box management information. ), And assigns the destination management information address (for example, 0X30000000) to the image file management information (FIG. 4).
(A), (b)) is written to the destination management information address (step S24).

Next, after the image file associated with the destination management information is detected by the transmission management task (not shown), the image file is normally transmitted (step S2).
5), the transmission destination (transfer destination) already transmitted from the destination management information
Is deleted (step S26). Further, it is determined whether or not there is another transmission destination of the destination management information (step S2).
7) If there is another transmission destination, the process from step S25 is repeated. If there is no other transmission destination, the image file is deleted and the image file number 2 (the next image file) shown in FIG. After copying the value of the address of the image file management information) to the image file management information address of the memory box management information (step S28), the processing from step S23 is repeated.

If the result of determination in step S23 is that no image is stored, similar determination processing is performed for the next memory box management information (step S21). When processing has been completed for all memory box management information, This processing ends.

According to the above-described embodiment, when the image data of the received e-mail is transferred by facsimile, or when the image data of the received facsimile is transferred by e-mail, the received e-mail or facsimile is stored in the memory box. If the memory box storage conditions set in the management information match, the address of the received image file management information relating to the e-mail and facsimile image data is stored in the memory box, and the transmission destination set in the memory box management information is stored. (Transfer destination), so that the gateway function can be used with simple settings for the user.

A storage medium such as a ROM storing software program codes for realizing the functions described in the present embodiment is supplied to the facsimile apparatus 100, and the CPU 1 of the apparatus executes the program stored in the storage medium. Needless to say, this can also be achieved by reading the code and executing the function. In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the above-described function, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention. Examples of a storage medium for supplying the program code include a floppy (registered trademark) disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, and ROM. Can be used.

When the CPU 1 executes the readout program code, not only the functions described above are realized, but also the CP
It goes without saying that the OS or the like running on the U1 performs part or all of the actual processing, and the processing realizes the functions described above.

[0053]

As described above in detail, according to the apparatus of the first aspect and the method of the fifth aspect, when the received electronic mail is transferred by facsimile or the received facsimile is transferred by electronic mail, E-mail and facsimile image file management information that matches the storage conditions for storing only the e-mail and facsimile to be transferred is stored in the predetermined management information, and the transfer destination in the predetermined management information in which the image file management information is stored Since the image data is transferred to the facsimile apparatus, the gateway function of the facsimile apparatus can be used with simple settings for the user.

According to the apparatus of the third aspect and the method of the seventh aspect, image data is transferred by associating predetermined management information with image file management information.
The same effects as those of the device according to claim 1 and the method according to claim 5 can be obtained.

According to the storage medium of the ninth aspect, when the received e-mail is transferred by facsimile or the received facsimile is transferred by e-mail, it matches the storage condition for storing only the transferred e-mail and facsimile. Since the management information of the image file of the e-mail and the facsimile is stored in the predetermined management information, and the program for transferring the image data to the transfer destination in the predetermined management information in which the management information of the image file is stored is stored in the storage medium. By causing the facsimile apparatus to read and execute the program stored in the facsimile apparatus, the same effect as the apparatus according to the first aspect and the method according to the fifth aspect can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing management information of a memory box in the facsimile apparatus 100 of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a memory box storage condition in the memory box management information of FIG. 2;

4A and 4B are schematic diagrams of image file management information in the memory box management information of FIG. 2, wherein FIG. 4A shows image file management information of an image file management information address “0X10000000”, and FIG. 0X100000
10 ”is image file management information.

5A and 5B are schematic diagrams of page management information in the image file management information of FIG. 4, wherein FIG. 5A shows the page management information of the page management information address “0X20000000”, and FIG. 5B shows the page of the page management information address “0X20000010”. It is management information.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of destination management information in the image file management information of FIG. 4;

7 is a schematic diagram of an image memory block management table corresponding to an image memory block number in the page management information of FIG.

8 is a schematic diagram showing an area in a DRAM 5 of image data corresponding to the image memory block management table of FIG.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a process of storing image data in the facsimile machine 100 of FIG.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a process of transferring image data in the facsimile apparatus 100 of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Central control unit (CPU) 2 Program storage area (ROM) 3 Work area (RAM) 4 Image memory backup battery (BAT) 5 Image memory (DRAM) 6 Transmit / receive buffer (RAM) 7 Display unit (LCD) 8 Operation keys ( KEY) 9 Read / write encoding / decoding device (RW-COD)
EC) 10 Image processing / correction circuit (RCNT) 11 Contact sensor (CS) 12 Recorded image processing circuit (LCNT) 13 Laser beam printer (LBP) 14 Communication coding / decoding device (first CODEC) 15 Modulation / demodulation device (First MODEM) 16 Network controller (first NCU) 17 Communication encoding / decoding device (second CODEC) 18 Modulator / demodulator (second MODEM) 19 Network controller (NIC) 20 Hook detection Circuit (HOOK) 21 Handset (HANDSET) 22 Network controller (second NCU)

Claims (9)

[Claims] A first communication unit connected to a network for sending and receiving e-mail; a second communication unit connected to a public network for sending and receiving facsimile; A facsimile apparatus comprising: an image file management unit that manages the image data of the electronic mail and the image data of the facsimile received by the second communication unit as an image file together with the management information of the image file. Setting means for setting predetermined management information including a transfer destination when transferring the received facsimile by facsimile or the e-mail, and storage conditions for storing only the transferred e-mail and facsimile; and Mail header information and facsimile transmission information match the storage conditions Storage means for storing the image file management information of the image data in the predetermined management information; and transferring the image data to a transfer destination in the predetermined management information in which the image file management information is stored. A facsimile apparatus comprising: 2. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the management information of the image file includes at least page management information for managing the image data and destination management information for managing the transfer destination. 3. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image transfer unit transfers the image data by associating the predetermined management information with management information of the image file. 4. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage condition includes a plurality of storage conditions for each of the first communication unit and the second communication unit. apparatus. 5. A first communication step of connecting to a network to send and receive e-mail, a second communication step of connecting to a public network to send and receive facsimile, and receiving at the first communication step. And facsimile image data received in the second communication step as an image file together with management information of the image file. A setting step of setting predetermined management information including a transfer destination when transferring a received e-mail by the facsimile or the received facsimile by the e-mail, and storage conditions for storing only the transferred e-mail and facsimile; The header information of the received e-mail and the transmission information of the facsimile are stored in the storage condition. If they match, a storing step of storing the management information of the image file of the image data in the predetermined management information; and a transfer destination in the predetermined management information in which the management information of the image file is stored. An image transfer step of transferring image data. 6. The image transfer method according to claim 5, wherein the management information of the image file includes at least page management information for managing the image data and destination management information for managing the transfer destination. 7. The image transfer method according to claim 5, wherein in the image transfer step, the image data is transferred by associating the predetermined management information with management information of the image file. . 8. The image according to claim 5, wherein the storage condition includes a plurality of storage conditions for each of the first communication step and the second communication step. Transfer method. 9. A first communication module connected to a network for sending and receiving e-mail, a second communication module connected to a public network for sending and receiving facsimile,
A facsimile apparatus comprising: an image file management module that manages image data of an e-mail received by the first communication module and image data of a facsimile received by the second communication module as image files together with management information of the image files. A readable storage medium storing a program for executing the image transfer method, wherein the program is a transfer destination when transferring the received e-mail by the facsimile or the received facsimile by the e-mail, A setting module for setting predetermined management information including a storage condition for storing only the e-mail and facsimile to be transferred; and a case where the received e-mail header information and facsimile transmission information match the storage condition. The image file of the image data A storage module that stores the management information of the image file in the predetermined management information; and an image transfer module that transfers the image data to a transfer destination in the predetermined management information in which the management information of the image file is stored. Storage medium.