Facsimile mail system capable of managing facsimile mail designation errors

A facsimile mail system having a plurality of telephone sets, a plurality of facsimile machines each connected to said respective telephone sets, and a telephone exchange connected via lines to said plurality of facsimile machines, said facsimile mail system comprising:

• line processing means for making, receiving and terminating calls to and from said telephone exchange, said line processing means including push-button signal recognizing means for recognizing a push-button signal of a telephone set, guidance outputting means for outputting a voice guidance via said telephone exchange to a transmitting telephone set from which a call is received, facsimile communication processing means for receiving all facsimile information coming from the facsimile machine connected to said transmitting telephone set, means for checking to see if the format of an optical mark reader sheet transmitted along with said information is correct, and communication history managing means for managing the history of communications on each of said lines connected with said plurality of facsimile machines;
• recognition processing means for recognizing said optical mark reader sheet;
• line managing means for managing said line processing means;
• access managing means for judging the possibility of granting a facsimile mail service according to the result of the recognition by said push-button signal recognizing means regarding said push-button signal and by said recognition processing means regarding said optical mark reader sheet;
• storage means for storing said facsimile information;
• designation managing means coupled to said access managing means and to said storage means, for controlling the storage, into said storage means, of the information obtained from said push-button signal and from said optical mark reader sheet;
• and
• mail function processing means for controlling the transmission of said facsimile information through one of a plurality of mail functions which is selected under control of said access managing means,
• wherein said designation managing means includes means for performing error checks on the mark entry of said optical mark reader sheet for each of the lines connected with said plurality of facsimile machines, and for storing the error count per line in said storage means, and
• wherein said destination managing means also includes means for providing control over recognizing the mark designated on said optical mark reader sheet and storing the result of the recognizing process in said storage means.