Internet facsimile communication system, internet facsimile communication method and storage medium storing internet facsimile communication program

An internet facsimile communication method for sending a document from a sending device to a receiving device via an Internet mail, comprising:

• sending the document with urgent designation information attached thereto by a sending unit of the sending device to the receiving device;
• informing the reception of an urgent document by an information unit of the receiving device if the document received from the sending device has urgent designation information attached thereto;
• immediately printing out the received document about which the information unit has informed the reception of the urgent document by a print control unit of the receiving device;
• notifying an output completion notice to the sending device by a notification unit of the receiving device if the received document having the urgent designation information attached thereto was normally printed out by the print control unit;
• and
• judging as a transmission error of the document having the urgent designation information attached thereto by a judging unit of the sending device if the reception of the output completion notice being monitored by the sending unit was not received within a prescribed time.

A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing an Internet facsimile communication program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for Internet facsimile communication to send a document from a sending device to a receiving device via an Internet mail, the function comprising:

• sending the document with urgent designation information attached thereto from the sending device to the receiving device;
• informing the reception of an urgent document by the receiving device if the document received from the sending device has the urgent designation information attached thereto;
• immediately printing out the received document about which the reception of the urgent document has been informed;
• notifying an output completion notice from the receiving device to the sending device if the received document which has the urgent designation information attached thereto was normally printed out;
• and
• judging by the sending device as a transmission error of the document having the urgent designation information attached thereto if the reception of the output completion notice being monitored was not received within a prescribed time.