Image forming apparatus and method for controlling image forming apparatus to selectively print and delete attached file in electronic mail
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKeiko Kamoi
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Abstract
An MFP receives an electronic mail from a mail server. The MFP prints an image based on an attached file of the received electronic mail. If an abort instruction is not accepted during printing of the image, the electronic mail is deleted from the mail server after printing of the image based on the attached file of the received electronic mail is completed. On the other hand, if the abort instruction is accepted during printing of the image, printing of the image is aborted without deleting the received electronic mail from the mail server.
Claims11
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface configured to receive an electronic mail from a mail server;
- a storage unit configured to store an image based on a file attached to the electronic mail received by the communication interface;
- a printing unit configured to print the image on a sheet;
- a deletion unit configured to delete the image from the storage unit and to transmit an instruction to delete the electronic mail stored in the mail server;
- and
- a user interface configured to accept a stop instruction of printing,
- wherein the deletion unit is configured to delete the image from the storage unit and to transmit the instruction to delete the electronic mail from the mail server, in accordance with printing of the image being completed, and to delete the image from the storage unit and not to transmit the instruction to delete the electronic mail from the mail server, in accordance with the stop instruction being accepted by the user interface in printing of the image, and
- wherein the deletion unit is implemented by a processor and a memory.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface configured to receive an electronic mail from a mail server;
- a storage unit configured to store an image based on a file attached to the electronic mail received by the communication interface;
- a printing unit configured to print the image on a sheet;
- a first deletion unit configured to transmit an instruction to delete the electronic mail stored in the mail server;
- a second deletion unit configured to delete the electronic mail stored in the storage unit;
- and
- a user interface configured to accept a stop instruction of printing,
- wherein the first deletion unit and the second deletion unit are configured to delete the received electronic mail from the storage unit and to transmit the instruction to delete the electronic mail from the mail server, in accordance with printing of the image being completed, and the first deletion unit and the second deletion unit are configured not to transmit the instruction to delete the electronic mail from the mail server and to delete the received electronic mail from the storage unit, in accordance with the stop instruction being accepted by the user interface in printing of the image,
- wherein at least one of the first deletion unit and the second deletion unit is implemented by a processor and a memory.
A method for controlling an image forming apparatus that executes printing on a sheet, the method comprising:
- receiving an electronic mail from a mail server;
- storing an image based on a file attached to the received electronic mail into a storage unit;
- printing the image on a sheet;
- accepting a stop instruction of printing;
- and
- transmitting an instruction to delete the electronic mail from the mail server and deleting the image from the storage unit, in accordance with printing of the image being completed, not transmitting the instruction to delete the electronic mail from the mail server, and deleting the image from the storage unit, in accordance with the stop instruction being accepted in printing of the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.