Printing apparatus which generates an email notification when received email attachments cannot be printed and with a confidential printing function

摘要

The present invention provides a printing apparatus that enables sender to know which file is printable, and which file is unprintable when plural files are attached in a receiving mail and two kinds of printable and unprintable files intermingle in the plural files. The printing apparatus which can print the file attached in a receiving mail, comprises a judging section which judges whether or not the attached file in the receiving mail is printable; and a transferring section that, if the attached file is unprintable on the basis of a judgment result of the judging section, generates a transfer mail which contains information to specify the unprintable file and transfers the transfer mail to a predetermined transfer destination.