JP2000330894A - Email management method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] For a specific received mail, data in a specified range and data of the received mail are stored in association with each other,
Provided is a mail management method for displaying stored mail data. SOLUTION: A received mail text is displayed on a content display section 64 of a received mail screen 60. The user selects an arbitrary part from the displayed mail text by, for example, touching a pen, and further touches a save button 65, so that the mail text in the selected range is changed to the transmission date and time, the mail title, the current date and time. And so on. When the user opens the mail management tool and displays a list of stored mails, the selected part is displayed. This allows the user to understand the contents of the mail at a glance. Further, a part of the mail to be stored can be corrected later. In addition, since a part of the stored mail is associated with the original mail text, the entire mail can be easily displayed by a predetermined operation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a mail management method,
More specifically, the present invention relates to a mail management method for saving a desired portion from the contents of a mail received via a communication line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-102796.
As disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication, there is a technique in which a display range of an e-mail is designated according to a user's instruction, data is extracted for each line of the designated display range, and the content is displayed. In this technique, only when the data of the specified line is not stored in the storage unit of the e-mail terminal, the e-mail box device requests data transmission of the line,
The e-mail box device reduces the amount of data communication between the e-mail box device and the e-mail terminal by transmitting the requested line data as a packet to the e-mail terminal.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, since only the display range specified in the mail is extracted from the mail and displayed, a part of the mail is displayed after the display range is specified. If the user wants to display the continuation again, it is necessary to carry out the mail fetching process again to the electronic mailbox device, and there is a problem that much processing time is required.
Further, even if the entire mail is taken out, if the user wants to refer to the mail again for reasons such as important contents, it takes extra time to search for the desired mail.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and stores a specified range of data and received mail in association with each other in a specific received mail, and displays the stored mail data in a mail. The purpose is to provide a management method.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a mail management method for managing a mail received via a communication line, and a mail specifying step of specifying a mail according to an instruction from stored mails. A range specifying step for receiving a range specification in the mail specified in the mail specifying step; and predetermined mail information for displaying a list of the mail specified in the mail specifying step and the range specifying step. An associating storage step of associating and storing data of a specified designated range;
A list display step of displaying the predetermined mail information and at least a part of the data in the specified range in a list based on the association, and a selection step of receiving a mail selection in the mail list displayed in the list display step; And a designated range display step of displaying all data in the designated range of the mail selected in the selecting step.

Further, the present invention has a modification step of modifying the data in the specified range, and updates the data in the specified range to the data corrected in the modification step.

Further, the present invention has a specified range-full text association step for associating the data of the specified range with the data of the full text of the mail, and based on the association in the specified range-full text association step, the data of the specified range is converted. It is characterized in that it is possible to shift from the displayed state to a state in which the entire mail is displayed.

The present invention also relates to a mail managing method for managing mail received via a communication line, comprising: a mail specifying step of specifying a mail in accordance with an instruction from held mail; A range specifying step for receiving a range specification in the mail specified in the step, a predetermined mail information for displaying a list of the mail specified in the mail specifying step, and a specified range specified in the range specifying step And a list display step of displaying the predetermined mail information and at least a part of the data in the specified range in a list based on the association. A selection step for accepting an e-mail selection in the displayed e-mail list; A computer-readable recording medium recording a program for executing the mail management method and a specified range display step in a computer to display all the data in the specified range of mail.

[0009]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing an example of an information processing apparatus to which a mail management method according to the present invention is applied. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes an information processing apparatus, 10 denotes a main body cabinet, and 11 denotes an input. An output unit, 12 is a pen holding unit, 13 is a modular jack unit, 30 is a lid unit, and 40 is an input pen.
The main body cabinet 10 has a pen holding unit 12, a modular jack unit 13, an infrared communication unit (not shown), and an input / output unit 11 in which a display unit and a transparent tablet are integrated. A power supply section (not shown) for supplying power to necessary portions such as a control circuit for controlling an interface or the like is built in.

The input / output unit 11 is composed of a matrix type thin liquid crystal display unit capable of displaying characters and a transparent tablet large enough to cover the liquid crystal display unit. This transparent tablet has a configuration in which, for example, two transparent sheets are stacked, transparent electrodes are provided on the inner surface of these sheets, and small protruding spacers are regularly printed so that each electrode does not contact in a normal state. When the user presses the position selected by the user with a finger or a pen, the transparent electrodes facing each other come into contact with each other, and the selected position can be detected.

Note that a backlight made of an EL panel or the like may be provided on the back of the liquid crystal display unit as needed. Further, by synchronizing the display content displayed on the liquid crystal display unit with the transparent tablet position information, it is possible to detect the position selected by the user on the liquid crystal display unit.
The lid 30 is rotatably connected to the back of the main body cabinet 10 using a hinge mechanism. This lid 30
Rotates to cover the input / output unit 11 and serves to protect the input / output unit 11 when being carried.

The modular jack section 13 is used to connect a cable for communicating with a communication line. FIG. 1 shows a state in which a lid is closed to protect an internal connector. When connecting the cable, open the lid and insert the modular plug provided at one end of the cable. The user uses the input pen 40
By touching the input / output unit 11 by using, the user can perform a function execution instruction, input characters and graphics, and the like. When the input pen 40 is not used, the input pen 40 is stored in the pen holding unit 12 of the main body cabinet 10. Can be kept.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of an information processing apparatus to which the mail management method according to the present invention is applied. Transparent tablet 11a and liquid crystal display unit 1
1b constitutes the input / output unit 11 as described with reference to FIG. The tablet control unit 24 controls the transparent tablet unit 11
This is for extracting coordinate information from a, and is connected to the transparent electrodes provided on the two sheets of the transparent tablet 11a, and the transparent electrodes facing each other contact at a position designated by a finger or a pen. Thus, coordinate detection is performed.

The liquid crystal display circuit section 25 includes a liquid crystal display section 11b.
Is stored as a bit map, and the common circuit 14 and the segment circuit 1 are stored as necessary.
Send a signal to 5. The central control unit 16 controls input information or output information according to various commands, and includes a mail specifying unit 16a, a partial specifying unit 16b, a save instruction unit 16c, a corresponding mail search unit 16d, and a content correcting unit 16e. I have. Details of the operation will be described later.

The RTC 17 measures time using a clock signal from an oscillator (not shown). ROM 18
A font information area 18a storing a font of characters to be displayed on the liquid crystal display unit 11b, a dictionary area 18b storing a dictionary for character conversion, and a program area 18 storing a program for executing the operation of the central control unit 16.
c, a coordinate information area 18d storing exchange information for converting coordinates detected by the tablet control unit 24 into coordinates corresponding to the display position.

The RAM 19 has a data storage section 19a for storing various data such as texts and figures input by the user from the input / output section 11, and a program medium 50 when the program medium 50 is installed in the main body using the program reading section 23. , A received mail storage unit 19c for storing received mail information, a transmitted mail storage unit 19d for storing transmitted mail information, and a stored mail memory 19e.

The received mail storage section 19c includes a received mail title storage section c1, a source address storage section c2, a destination address storage section c3, a reception date / time storage section c4, and a received mail content storage section c5. The storage unit 19d
Outgoing mail title storage d1, source address storage d
2, destination address storage unit d3, transmission date and time storage unit d4
The storage mail memory 19e includes a transmission mail content storage unit d5, and includes a storage title storage unit e1, a storage transmission date and time storage unit e.
2, a storage content storage unit e3 and a storage date and time storage unit e4.

The modular unit 20 is connected to a communication line,
Under the control of the modular control unit 21, for example, transmission and reception of e-mail via the Internet and input and output of other data are performed. The main body power switch 22 turns on / off the main body power.
This is a switch for turning off. The program medium 50 is an information recording medium configured to be detachable from the main body, and for example, a DVD, an MO, a CD-ROM, a floppy (registered trademark) disk, and an IC card are suitable. The program medium 50 stores an executable program read and executed by the main body, a source program capable of constructing the executable program, and an intermediate program.

If a program is not installed in the main body cabinet 10 in advance, each program and data necessary for operating the present invention are read from the program medium 50 by using the program reading unit 23, and the read data is read. Is stored in the data storage unit 19a of the RAM 19, and the program code of the execution program is stored in the program storage unit 19b of the RAM 19.

FIGS. 3 and 4 are views showing examples of a display screen when a mail is stored in the mail management method of the present invention.
When the user designates a desired mail from the received mail, a received mail screen 60 is displayed as shown in FIG. On the received mail screen 60, as information on the received mail, the mail address of the sender is displayed on the sender display section 61, the transmission date and time is displayed on the transmission date and time display section 62, the title is displayed on the title display section 63, and the content of the mail is displayed on the content. It is displayed on the display unit 64. Here, when the user touches the reply button 66, "yokoy" which is the source address of the mail is sent.
ama @ info1. strim. co. jp "as the destination address, and" Re: "indicating the reply is added at the beginning of the title" Announcement of the April Planning Meeting "as the reply title, switch to the content input mode, and create a reply mail. be able to. Since this reply operation is not directly related to the present embodiment, a detailed description is omitted. When the user touches the return button 67, the screen returns to the screen that was opened before the screen in FIG.

When the user selects a part to be saved from the contents display section 64 and touches the save button 65, the selected part and the touched save button 65 are inverted as shown in FIG. Displayed, transmission date and time display section 62
, The title displayed in the title display section 63, the selected content, and the current date and time are stored. The current date and time is used to identify the date and time when the user later refers to the stored mail, and is displayed as one item of the list when the stored mail is referred to. The data stored at this time is associated with the original received mail using the transmission date and time and the title as keys.

FIG. 5 to FIG. 7 are views showing examples of display screens when a stored mail is referred to in the mail management method of the present invention. The mail management tool is activated so that the user can refer to the stored mail stored by the operation described with reference to FIGS. The list displayed by the mail management tool can be used like a ToDo list that simply summarizes the contents sent by mail. When the mail management tool is activated, a list of stored mails is displayed as shown in FIG. In the saved mail list display section 71,
The stored title, save date and time, and part of the save contents are displayed one by one. When the user touches a line for displaying a desired save mail, the touched line is highlighted in black and white and selected. . Then, when the one-item display button 72 is touched, the corresponding stored mail data is read, and as shown in FIG. 6, the mail content whose range has been selected by the mail management tool can be displayed.

At the time of displaying the stored mail, as shown in FIG. 6, the mail address of the transmission source is displayed on the transmission source display 74, the transmission date and time is displayed on the transmission date and time display 75, the title is displayed on the title display 76, and the storage date and time is displayed on the storage date and time display 77. The stored date and time and the content stored in the content display section 78 are displayed. In FIG. 6, when the user touches the corresponding mail full text display button 80, the full text of the mail including the current display range can be displayed. That is, the received mail stored in association with the source mail address and the transmission date and time of the displayed stored mail is searched for and read, and the full text of the corresponding received mail is displayed as shown in FIG. Then, the user returns button 8
Touching 2 closes the corresponding received mail and returns to the saved mail list screen of FIG.

Here, a search is made for a received mail in which the source mail address of the stored mail and the transmission date and time are associated with each other as a key, but other information is used as a key for associating the stored mail with the received mail. It may be additionally used. Also, here, the contents of the received mail are displayed by the mail management tool, but when the full-text display instruction of the corresponding mail is issued, the corresponding mail is searched,
Another tool that can send and receive mails may be activated.

FIGS. 8 and 9 are views showing examples of a display screen when a stored mail is corrected in the mail management method of the present invention. The user can also correct the content of the stored mail stored. In the mail management tool, when a list of saved mail is displayed, only a part of the mail content is displayed, so if you want to use a part of the received mail as the original text in the list display, It is often difficult to grasp the contents at a glance from the list. Therefore, in order to easily grasp the contents from the stored mail list, for example, the information may be modified so as to be condensed at a head portion that can be displayed in the list.

For example, the mail management tool screen 70 shown in FIG.
In the saved e-mail displayed in the above section, the contents shown in the contents display section 78 are displayed using an input means (not shown). "Please send to Yokoyama." To "Please send to Yokoyama during April Planning Meeting Material 3/31." And touch the Modify button 79 to update and save the modified content and save. The one-mail display is closed and the screen returns to the list screen of the stored mail. At this time, as shown in FIG. 9, the above-mentioned correction contents are reflected in the corresponding stored mail in the stored mail list.

Next, the operation of storing, referencing, and correcting the stored mail will be described with reference to FIG. When the user specifies an arbitrary received mail on the received mail display screen, the mail is specified by the mail specifying unit 16a. When the user selects a desired content portion from the specified received mail, the selected portion is highlighted by the portion specifying section 16b. Here, when the user gives a save instruction, the save instructing section 16c causes the selected portion to be stored in the save content storage section e3 of the save mail memory 19e of the RAM 19, the title of the received mail to be stored in the save title storage section e1, and the transmission of the received mail. The date and time are stored in the storage transmission date and time storage unit e2, and the current date and time are stored in the storage date and time storage unit e4.
Respectively.

When the user refers to the stored mail, the mail management tool is activated. When you start the mail management tool, a list of saved mails is displayed. When the user selects a desired stored mail from the list of displayed mails, information of the selected stored mail is read out from the stored mail memory 19e of the RAM 19 and displayed.
When the user instructs the display of the full text of the corresponding mail on the screen on which the stored mail is displayed, the corresponding mail search unit 16
By d, the corresponding mail is searched from the received mail storage unit 19c of the RAM 19 using the transmission date and time and the title of the stored mail as keys, and the corresponding full text of the mail is displayed. When the user wants to correct the displayed content, the user issues a correction instruction after correcting the content. In response to the correction instruction, the content correction unit 16e checks whether or not the content has been corrected. If the content has been corrected, the corrected content is stored in the storage content storage unit e3 of the storage mail memory 19e of the RAM 19. You.

FIG. 10 is a flow chart for explaining an example of processing at the time of mail storage in the mail management method of the present invention. First, the received mail specified in step S1 is displayed, and in step S2, the process waits until the pen is touched. In step S3, the position touched by the pen is read, and the touched position is determined in step S4. As a result of the determination, if the touched position is the save button 65,
It is determined whether or not there is a selected portion in the content display section 64 in step S5.

If there is no selected portion in the content display section 64, the process returns to step S2, and if there is a selected portion, the selected portion is stored in the storage content storage section e3 of the storage mail memory 19e of the RAM 19 in step S6. In step S7, the title of the received mail is stored in the stored mail memory 19 of the RAM 19.
e is stored in the storage title storage unit e1, and the transmission date and time of the received mail is stored in the storage mail memory 19 of the RAM 19 in step S8.
e is stored in the storage transmission date and time storage unit e2, and in step S9 the current time is stored in the storage date and time storage unit e4 of the storage mail memory 19e of the RAM 19, and the process returns to step S2.

If the touch position is determined to be the content display section 64 in step S4, it is determined in step S10 whether the content displayed on the content display section 64 has been selected. If the content displayed on the content display section 64 has not been selected, the process returns to step S2. If the content has been selected, the selected portion is highlighted in step S11 and the process returns to step S2.

If it is determined in step S4 that the touch position is the reply button 66, a reply process is performed in step S12, and the process returns to step S2. Note that the reply processing is not directly related to the present invention, and therefore detailed description is omitted. If the touched position is the return button 67 as determined in step S4, the screen displaying the received mail is closed in step S13, and the received mail storage process ends.

FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 are flow charts for explaining an example of processing at the time of referring to and correcting a stored mail in the mail management method of the present invention. First, the mail management tool is activated in step S21, the stored mail information is read from the stored mail memory 19e of the RAM 19 in step S22, and a list display as shown in FIG. 5 is performed. In step S23, wait until the pen is touched.
At 24, the position touched by the pen is read.

In step S25, it is determined where the read touch position is. Touch position is list display section 7
If it is 1, it is determined in step S26 whether or not the content displayed on the list display section 71 has been selected. If the content displayed on the list display section 71 has not been selected, the process returns to step S23. If the content has been selected, the line selected in step S27 is highlighted and the process returns to step S23.

If the touch position is the one-item display button 72, it is determined whether or not there is a stored mail selected in step S28. If there is no selected stored mail, the process returns to step S23. If there is a selected stored mail, the stored mail selected in step S29 is read from the stored mail memory 19e of the RAM 19, and one stored mail read in step S30 is read. The entire information is displayed as shown in FIG.

Next, the process waits until the pen is touched in step S31, and reads the position touched by the pen in step S32. The touch position read in step S33 is determined. If the touch position is the one-item display button 72, the corresponding mail is stored in the received mail storage unit 19 of the RAM 19 by using the transmission date and time and the title of the stored mail as keys in step S34.
c, the corresponding mail is read in step S35, and the corresponding mail is displayed in step S36 as shown in FIG.

In step S37, it is determined whether the return button 82 has been touched in the state shown in FIG. 7, and the mail display is continued until the return button 82 is touched. When the return button 82 is touched, a step S
The mail display is closed at 38, and the process returns to step S22. If it is determined in step S33 that the touched position is the correction button 79, it is determined in step S39 whether the content of the content display section 78 has been changed. If the content of the content display section 78 has not been changed, the process proceeds to step S
Returning to step 31, if it has been changed, step S40
Then, the content of the content display section 78 is stored in the storage content storage section e3 of the storage mail memory 19e of the RAM 19. Then, in step S41, the display of one of the stored mails is closed, and the process returns to step S22.

If it is determined in step S33 that the touched position is the content display section 78, step S4
In step 2, the correction is performed by the input means (not shown) of the user, and the process returns to step S31. If it is determined in step S33 that the touched position is the return button 81, the display of one stored mail is closed in step S43, and the process proceeds to step S43.
Return to 22. In the list of stored e-mails shown in FIG. 5 or FIG.
To end the mail management tool and end a series of stored mail reference processing.

Next, an embodiment of a means for providing a program and data used for executing the mail management method according to the present invention will be described below. The mail management method described above is realized by a program for executing a mail management process. This program is stored in a computer-readable recording medium. In the present invention, as the recording medium, a memory required for processing by a microcomputer, such as a ROM itself, may be a program medium,
Further, a program reading device may be provided as an external storage device, and may be a program medium readable by inserting a recording medium therein. In any case, the stored program may be configured to be accessed and executed by the microprocessor, or in any case, the program may be read and the read program may be stored in the program storage area of the microcomputer. The program may be downloaded and the program may be executed. It is assumed that the download program is stored in advance in the apparatus main body that executes the present invention.

The above-mentioned program medium is a recording medium which can be separated from the main body, such as a tape system such as a magnetic tape or a cassette tape, a magnetic disk such as a floppy disk or a hard disk, a CD-ROM / MO /
It carries a fixed program including a disk system of an optical disk such as an MD / DVD, a card system such as an IC card (including a memory card) / optical card, or a semiconductor memory such as a mask ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash ROM, or the like. It may be a medium.

Further, since the present invention uses a system configuration that can be connected to a communication network including the Internet, the medium may be a medium that carries the program in a fluid manner such that the program is downloaded from the communication network. When the program is downloaded from the communication network as described above, the download program may be stored in advance in the apparatus main body that executes the present invention, or may be installed from another recording medium. Good. The content stored in the recording medium is not limited to a program, but may be data.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various applications are possible without departing from the present invention described in the claims. Needless to say.

[0043]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the user can specify a partial range of the mail content from a specific received mail, and associates the specified range with the received mail. By storing and displaying the stored mail contents, important mail contents and the like can be extracted and stored separately from the received mail, and the user can use it as a ToDo list or a memo. In addition, by making the stored mail contents modifiable, the stored mail contents can be corrected so that the user can see them at a glance, thereby making it easier to use. In addition, by associating the mail content that has been designated and stored with the original received mail, the user can call the original received mail from the mail content with the specified range and perform full-text display, and obtain additional information. Even when you want, you can easily refer to the original received mail.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing an example of an information processing apparatus to which a mail management method according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration in an embodiment of an information processing apparatus to which a mail management method according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when a mail is stored in the mail management method of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when a mail is stored in the mail management method of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when a stored mail is referred to in the mail management method of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when a stored mail is referred to in the mail management method of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when a stored mail is referred to in the mail management method of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when a stored mail is modified in the mail management method of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen when a stored mail is modified in the mail management method of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart for explaining an example of processing at the time of mail storage in the mail management method of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a part of a flowchart for explaining an example of processing at the time of referring to and modifying a stored mail in the mail management method of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart subsequent to FIG. 11 for explaining an example of processing at the time of referring to and correcting a stored mail in the mail management method of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Information processing apparatus, 10 ... Main body cabinet, 11 ... Input / output part, 11a ... Transparent tablet part, 11b ... Liquid crystal display part, 12 ... Pen holding part, 13 ... Modular jack part,
14 common circuit, 15 segment circuit, 16 central control unit, 16a mail specifying unit, 16b partial specifying unit,
16c: save instruction section, 16d: corresponding mail search section, 16
e: Content correction unit, 17: RTC, 18: ROM, 18a
... Font information area, 18b ... Dictionary area, 18c ...
Program area, 18d: coordinate information area, 19: R
AM, 19a: data storage unit, 19b: program storage unit, 19c: received mail storage unit, 19d: transmitted mail storage unit, 19e: saved mail memory, 20: modular unit, 21: modular control unit, 22: main unit power switch 23, a program reading unit, 24, a tablet control unit, 25, a liquid crystal display circuit unit, 30, a lid unit, 40, an input pen, 50, a program medium, 60, a received mail screen, 61, a transmission source display unit, 62, Transmission date and time display section, 63
... Title display part, 64 ... Content display part, 65 ... Save button,
66 ... reply button, 67 ... return button, 70 ... mail management tool screen, 71 ... mail list display section, 72 ... one display button, 73 ... return button, 74 ... source display section, 7
5: transmission date display section, 76: title display section, 77: storage date display section, 78: content display section, 79: correction button, 80
... Corresponding mail full text display button, 81, 82 ... Return button, c1 ... Received mail title storage unit, c2 ... Source address storage unit, c3 ... Destination address storage unit, c4 ... Reception date and time storage unit, c5 ... Received mail content Storage unit, d1 ... sent mail title storage unit, d2 ... source address storage unit, d3 ...
Destination address storage unit, d4... Transmission date and time storage unit, d5.
Outgoing mail content storage unit, e1 ... storage title storage unit, e2 ...
Storage transmission date / time storage unit, e3: storage content storage unit, e4: storage date / time storage unit.

Continued on the front page F-term (reference) 5B089 GA11 GA21 GB04 HA01 JA31 KA02 KA03 KB11 LA14 LB07 LB14 LB15 5E501 AA02 BA05 CA02

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A mail management method for managing mail received via a communication line, comprising: a mail specifying step of specifying a mail corresponding to an instruction from held mail; A range specifying step for receiving the specification of the range in the specified mail; and, for the mail specified in the mail specifying step, predetermined mail information for performing a list display and data of the specified range specified in the range specifying step. And a list display step of displaying the predetermined mail information and at least a part of the data in the specified range in a list based on the association, and displaying the list in the list display step. A selection step of receiving a mail selection in the mail list, and a mail selected in the selection step A displaying step of displaying all the data of the specified range. 2. The mail management method according to claim 1, further comprising a correction step of correcting the data in the specified range, wherein the data in the specified range is updated to the data corrected in the correction step. Email management method. 3. The mail management method according to claim 1, further comprising a specified range-full text association step for associating the data in the specified range with the data of the full text of the mail, based on the association in the specified range-full text association step. Wherein the state of displaying the data in the specified range can be changed to a state of displaying the entire text of the mail. 4. A mail management method for managing mail received via a communication line, comprising: a mail specifying step of specifying a mail corresponding to an instruction from held mail; A range specifying step for receiving the specification of the range in the specified mail; and, for the mail specified in the mail specifying step, predetermined mail information for performing a list display and data of the specified range specified in the range specifying step. And a list display step of displaying the predetermined mail information and at least a part of the data in the specified range in a list based on the association, and displaying the list in the list display step. A selection step of receiving a mail selection in the mail list, and a mail selected in the selection step A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a mail management method having a specified range display step of displaying all data in the specified range.