Communicating apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing program

A control method for a communicating apparatus capable of connecting a message recording device and performing facsimile communication, comprising:

• a detection step of detecting an incoming call and detecting that the incoming call has disappeared;
• a start step of, in a mode in which the message recording device responds to an incoming call, starting counting by a repeat incoming call timer in a case where it is detected in the detection step that the incoming call has disappeared, and starting counting by a message recording monitoring timer for counting a message recording response time in a case where a next incoming call is detected in the detection step before a time-out of the repeat incoming call timer occurs;
• and
• a control step of controlling to start facsimile signal reception processing in a case where the message recording device does not capture a line before a time-out of the message recording monitoring timer started in the start step occurs, and the incoming call detected in the detection step has not disappeared.