JP2002091874A - E-mail proxy processing device and program storage medium. - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] The present invention relates to an electronic mail proxy processing device that receives an electronic mail on behalf of an electronic mail receiver and performs classification processing according to registration conditions. An e-mail addressed to recipients arriving at a plurality of e-mail servers on behalf of the e-mail recipient is received, and the e-mail is classified based on information included in the e-mail. Depending on the registration conditions, it is used for rejection, forwarding, and sending standard mail.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail device for exchanging information through a network and a computer readable program recording medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the spread of computers, electronic mail has become indispensable as a means for exchanging information, and has been used very conveniently. Also, there are many cases where one person owns two or more e-mail addresses and uses them properly.
We want to automate what we can automate as we receive more email. For example, if you want to reject e-mails you do not want to receive, forward e-mails that are not relevant to you, or send e-mails with certain text to e-mail senders, such as replying late because you are on vacation I want to send it automatically. However, the contents of the e-mail cannot be known until the recipient receives the e-mail from the e-mail server to the computer and checks the contents with an e-mail reading program. If you do not receive, you can not understand the contents. Also, if you have more than one e-mail address, you must receive e-mail from the e-mail server each time.

[0003]

The present invention has a function of receiving an e-mail from an e-mail server on a network registered by an e-mail recipient on behalf of the e-mail recipient, and setting a condition for classifying the e-mail. This allows e-mail recipients to receive only the mail they really need from a single location with as little communication and time as possible, and to not receive e-mails containing specific senders or specific phrases, It provides a function to forward an e-mail to another e-mail address and a function to automatically send an e-mail with a fixed text. It is another object of the present invention to provide a program storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to realize this function.

[0004]

An electronic mail proxy processing device according to claim 1 receives an electronic mail addressed to recipients arriving at a plurality of electronic mail servers on behalf of the electronic mail recipient periodically, and stores the electronic mail. After the e-mail recipient is authenticated by the authentication means, the e-mail stored in the external storage device is transmitted according to a request from the e-mail recipient. Even if there are two or more e-mail addresses, the e-mail recipient can receive all e-mails from one place only by setting the reception information in the e-mail proxy processor. It is possible to receive e-mail of all e-mail addresses with only one setting of the reception information of the recipient's computer.

According to a second aspect, there is provided a classification processing means for classifying the electronic mail stored in the first aspect in accordance with the classification processing conditions. The classification processing condition is a condition for processing an electronic mail based on information included in the received electronic mail.
The following usage is possible by setting the classification conditions and processing details. Not accepting a specific sender's e-mail or e-mail containing a specific phrase, forwarding to another e-mail address, and automatically replying to an e-mail with a certain sentence.

[0008] In a third aspect of the present invention, a computer readable program storage medium storing a program stores a program for realizing the first or second aspect by a computer.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the electronic mail proxy processing device of the present invention. The computer 1 includes a receiving unit 2 for receiving an e-mail, a transmitting unit 3 for transmitting an e-mail, a control unit 4 for performing control, a registration unit 5 for registering information, and a classification processing unit 6 for performing an e-mail classification process. Authentication means 12 for performing authentication, storage means 7 for storing information, network 11, external storage device 8, display device 9,
It comprises an input device 10 for inputting.

First, the receiving means 2 receives an e-mail from an e-mail server on the network on behalf of an e-mail recipient. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data structure of e-mail reception information used when the receiving means 2 receives an e-mail. The e-mail reception information is registered in the display device 9 by the registration means 5 and stored in the external storage device 8 by the input device 10 in advance. Suppose you are. The e-mail reception information in FIG. 2 is composed of the following two types of data. These are data for authenticating an e-mail recipient, an authentication ID 15 and a password 16, data necessary for receiving an e-mail, an e-mail address 17, an e-mail reception password 18, and an e-mail server name 19. In the registered e-mail reception information, as shown in FIG. 2, data for authentication and data for reception are stored in the first record, and data for reception are stored in the second and subsequent records. The receiving means 2 connects to the registered e-mail server via the network, receives the arriving e-mail of the relevant e-mail address using the registered e-mail receiving password, and stores it in the external storage device 8. To memorize. FIG. 3 is a flowchart in which the receiving means 2 receives an e-mail.

FIG. 4 shows, on the display device 9, classification processing conditions used when performing the classification processing on the received e-mail. The data structure is shown in FIG. It is assumed that the information is stored in the external storage device 8 by the storage device 7 using the display device 9 and the input device 10 by the registration device 5 in advance. Next, the e-mails received by the receiving means 2 and stored by the storage means 7 are shown in FIG. 5, FIG. 6, FIG. 7, FIG.
Performs processing according to the classification conditions and processing registered in the data structure of. FIG. 9 is a flowchart for performing the classification process. The classification processing of FIGS. 5, 6, 7, and 8 is performed as follows. In FIG. 5, the e-mail address of the sender is a
In the case of b1, the e-mail is discarded as it is. In FIG. 6, when the sender's e-mail address is ab2, the e-mail is transferred to the e-mail address ab10. In FIG. 7, when the sender's e-mail address is ab3, the e-mail annai-mail of the determined sentence
Will be sent to the caller. In FIG. 8, when the word “profit” is included in the e-mail, the e-mail is discarded as it is. If the classification processing condition is not met, the storage means 7 stores it in the external storage device 8 as an e-mail to be transmitted to the e-mail recipient.

Next, when there is an e-mail receiving request from the e-mail recipient, and when the authenticating means authenticates with the authentication ID 15 and the password 16, the transmitting means 3
Transmits the e-mail stored in the external storage device 8 by the storage means 7 for the e-mail recipient to the e-mail recipient.

[0011]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic mail proxy processing device comprising:
Receive e-mail on behalf of e-mail recipients. If an e-mail recipient receives an e-mail from an e-mail proxy processor, it can receive e-mails that reach two or more e-mail addresses at once, greatly reducing time and communication costs and improving work efficiency. To do.

According to the method of setting the classification processing condition of the second aspect, the rejection of the e-mail from the specific sender, the transfer to another e-mail address, and the transmission of the e-mail of the fixed text are automated and the desired e-mail Only receive efficiently. Greatly reduces time and communication costs and improves work efficiency.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic mail proxy processing device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data structure of e-mail reception information used when receiving means 2 receives an e-mail.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart in which the receiving means 2 receives an e-mail.

FIG. 4 is a view showing classification processing conditions used when classifying electronic mails on a display device 9;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data structure of the classification processing condition (when an e-mail is discarded).

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a data structure of the classification processing condition (when an electronic mail is transferred).

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a data structure of the classification processing condition (when an e-mail of a fixed text is transmitted)

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a data structure of the classification processing condition (in a case where an e-mail including a fixed phrase is discarded).

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating a classification process.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 computer 2 receiving means 3 transmitting means 4 central processing unit 5 registration means 6 classification processing means 7 storage means 8 external storage device 9 display device 10 input device 11 network 12 authentication means 13 data for receiving authentication data and e-mail 14 Data for receiving e-mail 15 Authentication ID 16 Password 17 E-mail address 18 E-mail reception password 19 Mail server name

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An electronic mail apparatus for exchanging information via a network, which registers information necessary for receiving an electronic mail written on an electronic mail server on the network on behalf of an electronic mail recipient. Means for storing e-mail on the basis of the registered information, receiving means for receiving e-mail from the e-mail server on behalf of the e-mail recipient, and storage for storing the received e-mail Means for authenticating an e-mail recipient, and a transmitting means for transmitting an e-mail. 2. An e-mail apparatus for exchanging information via a network, comprising: a registration unit for registering an e-mail classification processing condition designated by an e-mail recipient; and a storage unit for storing the classification processing condition. A classification processing means for reading the electronic mail stored in the storage means in accordance with the registered classification processing conditions and performing classification processing by applying the classification processing conditions, and a storage means for storing classification processing results. E-mail proxy processing device characterized by the above-mentioned. 3. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to realize the function of the electronic mail proxy processing device according to claim 1.