A server device for enabling to output contents of a homepage designated by an e-mail from a particular facsimile device and a control method therefor are disclosed. The server device according to the present invention checks whether there is a description of "URL=", which means acquisition of homepage data, in a body of a received e-mail destined for the facsimile device. If there is the description, the server device uses a URL described following the "URL=" to download the homepage data. Then the downloaded homepage data and contents of the e-mail are converted into the facsimile data, a calling is made via telephone lines to the facsimile device corresponding to a destination mail address to send the data.