JPH08186594A - Email system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] Add application name to e-mail,
The waiting time of the user at the time of operations such as import is reduced. [Structure] The automatic classification unit 52 regularly monitors the mail reception unit 51, and when the electronic mail is received, delivers the received electronic mail to the mail analysis unit 55. The mail analysis unit 55 analyzes this electronic mail, and the application analysis unit 56 analyzes from which application the electronic mail was sent. The automatic classification unit 52 analyzes the application name / folder name correspondence file 58, and the mail analysis unit 55.
A folder name corresponding to the application name obtained from is obtained and the folders 91 to 93 are automatically classified. Further, the mail display portion 57 is a folder name / display format symmetrical file 5
Refer to No. 9 and display in an appropriate display format.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail system that provides various applications using the electronic mail function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the spread of electronic mail systems, various applications utilizing electronic mail have been developed. These applications are
The processing required by the application is performed, and the result is sent to the user using electronic mail. An application using such an electronic mail function is also called an electronic mail system.

A conventional electronic mail system will be described with reference to FIG. Reference numeral 101 is an e-mail transmission unit, 111 is a user instruction unit that receives an instruction from a user, 112 is a mail creation unit that creates an e-mail, 102 is a mail transfer unit that sends the created e-mail, and 103 is an e-mail reception unit, Reference numeral 131 is a mail receiving unit for receiving the electronic mail transmitted from the mail transfer unit 102, 132 is a mail analyzing unit for analyzing the received electronic mail, 133 is a mail display unit for creating and displaying display information from the analysis result, 104
Is an application unit, 141 is an application processing unit that performs application processing, and 142 is a mail creation unit that converts the processing result into an electronic mail format.

An outline of the operation of ordinary e-mail will be described below. In ordinary e-mail, the contents of the e-mail are described on the mail sending side, e-mail information such as the e-mail destination, sender name, subject, etc. is set, and these are created and sent as e-mail. The mail receiving side receives the e-mail, analyzes the received e-mail, and obtains e-mail information such as the e-mail address, sender name, subject, and the e-mail content. The results of these analyzes are converted into a display format and displayed.

The outline of the operation will be described with reference to the conventional example shown in FIG. The e-mail transmission unit 101 is a mail transmission side, and the user instruction unit 111 receives user operations such as writing an e-mail, setting an e-mail destination, and sending an e-mail. When the user instructs the user instruction unit 111 to send an email, the user instruction unit 1
Reference numeral 11 passes the information of the electronic mail such as the contents of the electronic mail and the destination of the electronic mail to the mail creating unit 112. The mail creating unit 112 creates an electronic mail from the contents and information of the electronic mail, and transfers the electronic mail to the mail transfer unit 102.

An example of the format of the electronic mail delivered to the mail transfer unit 102 is shown in FIG. The electronic mail is composed of a mail information section 801 that describes information about the subject, a recipient, a sender, and the like, and a mail body section 802 that describes the content of the email. The mail information part 801 is described by a set of a keyword and its value. For example, "Subject: Patent".

The mail transfer unit 102 sends an electronic mail to the electronic mail receiving unit 103. Email receiver 1
31 receives the electronic mail and passes it to the mail analysis unit 132. The mail analysis unit 132 analyzes this and passes the analysis result to the mail display unit 133. The mail display part 133 is
The information required for display is changed to a display format and output to a display device such as a terminal or printer.

Next, an outline of the operation of the schedule management application will be described below as an example of the application. The schedule management application sends a reservation content to the person who has made a schedule by e-mail in order to notify another person that the schedule has been made when the person makes a reservation for the schedule. The schedule management application sets the sender of the email to the person who has the schedule so that the recipient of the email can determine who has scheduled.

An outline of the above operation will be described with reference to FIG. The application unit 104 is a schedule management application. The application processing unit 141 performs application-specific processing such as schedule registration, and passes the reservation details of the schedule, the destination of electronic mail, and the like to the mail creating unit 142. The mail creating unit 142 creates an electronic mail from the received information, and the mail transfer unit 10
Pass to 2. The format of the electronic mail passed from the schedule management application is the same as the format of the electronic mail passed from the normal electronic mail.

FIG. 10B shows an example of the format of the electronic mail delivered from the schedule management application. Subsequent processing is the same as for ordinary e-mail. FIG. 11 shows an example in which a list of normal emails and emails received from an application is displayed. In the email list, the sender name and subject of the email are displayed.

Further, in the conventional electronic mail system, when the electronic mail is received, the user usually takes the electronic mail into his or her folder. The electronic mail is displayed by accessing the captured electronic mail. Further, as a function of operating an e-mail, there is a function of “classifying e-mail into folders”. This function classifies and stores the e-mails received by the user in several folders according to the contents. Since emails are sent from various applications, the user classifies these emails into folders for each application. E-mails classified into folders can be displayed in the same manner as the first folder fetched when the folder is accessed.

FIG. 12 shows the configuration of an electronic mail receiving section having such a function. In FIG. 12, 105
Is an e-mail receiving unit, 151 is a mail receiving unit for receiving e-mails, 152 is a user instructing unit for the user to instruct the system to operate, and 153 is for moving the e-mail between folders, and is designated by the user. A folder management unit for taking out an electronic mail from the created folder, 154 is a mail analysis unit for analyzing the contents of the electronic mail, 155 is a mail display unit for creating display information and displaying the electronic mail, 9
01, 902, 903, ... Are folders for classifying electronic mail. There is no limit to the number of folders that can be classified. In this example, the folder 901 is set as a folder into which an electronic mail is first taken.

When the user finds that the electronic mail is received by the Biff program or the like, the user instructing section 152.
Instruct to "take in mail". The user instructing unit 152 notifies the mail receiving unit 151 that the electronic mail has been taken. The mail receiving unit 151 takes an electronic mail into the folder 901. When displaying an electronic mail, the user instructs the user instruction unit 152 which electronic mail in which folder should be displayed. The user instruction unit 152 informs the folder management unit 153 of that fact. The folder management unit 153 takes out the designated electronic mail from the designated folder, and the mail analysis unit 1
Pass it to 54. The mail analysis unit 154 analyzes the content of the electronic mail and passes the analysis result to the mail display unit 155. The mail display unit 155 converts the information necessary for display into a display format and outputs it to a display device such as a terminal. Furthermore, when moving an e-mail to another folder, the user instructs the user instruction unit 152 which e-mail should be moved to which folder. The user instruction unit 152 informs the folder management unit 153 of that fact. Folder management unit 153
Moves the email to the specified folder.

Further, in the conventional electronic mail system, when displaying an electronic mail, the same items are displayed in the same display format for the electronic mail in any folder.
FIG. 13 shows an example of displaying an electronic mail. FIG. 13A shows an example of displaying a normal electronic mail.
3 (b) is an example in which an electronic mail transmitted from the schedule management application is displayed. Even if normal e-mail is automatically classified into the folder 901 and e-mail sent from the schedule management application is automatically classified into the folder 902, no matter which e-mail is displayed, the subject, sender,
The content of the email is displayed in exactly the same display format.

In addition to the electronic mail system, a method called a broadcast message has been recently used as a transmission means using a computer. With the broadcast message method, the sender describes the contents that he / she wants to convey, and if the machine name used by the receiver is specified, the contents are displayed on the screen of the machine.

FIG. 14 shows the configuration of a conventional broadcast message system. In FIG. 14, 10
Reference numeral 6 is a broadcast message transmitting device, and 107 is a broadcast message receiving device. Reference numeral 161 is a broadcast message creating unit for creating a broadcast message, 162 is a broadcast message sending unit for sending a broadcast message, 17
Reference numeral 1 is a broadcast message receiving unit that receives a broadcast message, 172 is a control unit that controls display and end of display of the broadcast message,
Reference numeral 173 is a broadcast message display unit for displaying and ending display of the broadcast message, and 174 is a broadcast message user instruction unit for instructing the user to confirm the reading of the display of the broadcast message.

Broadcast message transmitter 10
In 6, the user selects the broadcast message creation unit 1
When a message is created in 61 and the machine name of the other party is specified, the broadcast message creating section 161 passes the created message and the machine name of the other party to the broadcast message transmitting section 162. The broadcast message sending unit 162 sends the designated machine
Send a message. In the broadcast message receiving device 107, when the broadcast message receiving unit 171 receives the broadcast message, the received message and the sender name of the message are passed to the control unit 172. The control unit 172 passes the message and the sender name of the message to the broadcast message display unit 173, and instructs the display of the message.
The broadcast message display unit 173 displays the received message and the sender name of the message. An example of displaying a message is shown in FIG. When confirming the message, the user presses the confirmation button. When the confirmation button is pressed, the user instruction section 174 causes the control section 17 to
Tell 2 that you pressed the button. Control unit 17
2 instructs the broadcast message display unit 173 to end the display. The broadcast message display unit 173 ends the message display.

[0018]

However, in the above-described conventional electronic mail system, firstly, the electronic mail receiving section does not have a means for distinguishing from which application the electronic mail was sent, so that the application It is difficult to operate each time, and the user must judge from the displayed contents. For example, when performing the operation of "delete only the result of the schedule management application", the user must check the contents of the mail one by one and delete them. As a method of distinguishing applications, it is possible to add an application name to the subject or make the sender name of the mail a user specific to the application. However, in the case of a subject, an email sent from a normal email may have the same subject as the application name, and the user may change the subject in the email receiving unit. Therefore, the subject cannot specify the application. Further, in the case of the sender name, an application in which the user name is the sender name may be considered instead of the application name as the sender name. For example, in the conventional schedule management application,
The sender name is the person who put the schedule. Therefore, the application cannot be specified by the sender name.

Secondly, since e-mail is fetched or moved to a folder according to a user's instruction, it may be possible that a large number of e-mails are transmitted at one time depending on the application. Takes a very long time. Further, when classifying e-mails into folders for each application, if the number of applications is large, the number of operations for classifying increases, which is difficult for the user.

Thirdly, the information to be shown to the user is different for each application, and if the same contents are displayed in all the applications, the information necessary for the application is missing. I can't get it. Also, displaying all the information contained in an e-mail not only displays items that are not necessary for a certain application, but it also reduces the area that can be displayed by displaying many unnecessary items. turn into. Further, since all the information included in the email is displayed, all the information in the email has to be analyzed, resulting in a long analysis time.

On the other hand, there is a method in which an electronic mail system having a display format and display items corresponding to each application is prepared for each application and only the folder holding the electronic mail sent from the application is accessed. However, this method has the same configuration except for the mail display unit such as the folder management unit and the mail analysis unit, only the display format and display items are different. It is possible that a plurality of these systems operate, use a lot of memory resources of the computer, and stop operating when the number of applications is large.

Fourth, in the broadcast message system, when the recipient is away from the seat, the confirmation button cannot be pressed, so that the message remains displayed. Therefore, a message may be read by another person, which causes a security problem. Also, when another person presses the confirmation button to delete the message, the intended recipient cannot read the message.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. First, the electronic mail receiving section can determine which application the data is sent from, so that the operation can be performed for each application. Second, the e-mail system can automatically classify e-mails for each application into folders for each application, which can reduce the user's waiting time during operations such as importing. Display format,
By having the correspondence of display items in the e-mail system, the analysis time of the mail is shortened, the display items and the display format suitable for the application that sent the e-mail is displayed, and the information is accurately shown to the user, and the system You can effectively utilize the memory resources of your computer without running multiple programs. Fourth, if there is no confirmation of the recipient for the received broadcast message for a certain period of time, convert the broadcast message to an email and An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic mail system that can prevent others from reading a message and preventing the intended recipient from being unable to read the message by ending the display.

[0024]

In order to achieve the above object, the electronic mail system of the present invention is, firstly, in addition to the conventional configuration, an application name adding section in an application section and an application in an electronic mail receiving section. It has a name analysis unit.

Secondly, in addition to the above-mentioned configuration, the electronic mail receiving section automatically classifies the electronic mail for each application into folders, and the correspondence of which application should be classified into which folder. Has a file corresponding to the application name / folder name.

Thirdly, in addition to the above configuration, a folder name / display format correspondence file in which correspondence of which display format and display item of the email of which folder is displayed is described in the electronic mail receiving section. Have

Fourth, in addition to the configuration of the conventional broadcast message receiving apparatus, the electronic mail receiving section has a timer control section for performing timer control and a mail converting section for converting a broadcast message into an electronic mail. .

[0028]

According to the present invention, according to the above-described structure, first, the electronic mail receiving unit can determine the application from which the electronic mail is sent, and thus the operation for each application can be performed. Second, the e-mail receiving unit can reduce the waiting time of the user at the time of operations such as importing by automatically classifying e-mails into folders for each application, and third, the e-mail receiving unit By having correspondence between folders, display formats, and display items, the analysis time of emails is shortened, and display items suitable for applications that send emails,
Display in a display format to show information to the user accurately, and
The computer's memory resources can be effectively used without operating multiple systems. Fourthly, when the e-mail receiving unit does not confirm the recipient of the received broadcast message for a certain period of time, the broadcast message is sent electronically. By converting the message into an email and ending the display of the message, it is possible to prevent the message from being read by others and the original recipient from being unable to read the message.

[0029]

【Example】

(Embodiment 1) Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is an electronic mail transmission unit, 11 is a user instruction unit, 12 is a mail creation unit, 2 is a mail transfer unit, 3 is an electronic mail reception unit, 31 is a mail reception unit, 32 is a mail analysis unit, and 33 is a mail analysis unit. The mail display unit, 4 is an application unit, 41 is an application processing unit, and 42 is a mail creating unit, which are the same as in the conventional example shown in FIG. Reference numeral 43 denotes an application name addition section for adding an application name to the created mail,
An application name analysis unit 34 analyzes which application the received mail was sent from.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described. The operation of the electronic mail transmission unit 1 is the same as the conventional example. In the application unit 4, when the application processing unit 41 performs the processing necessary for the application, the application processing unit 41 passes the result, the destination of the mail, and the like to the mail creating unit 42. The mail creation unit 42 creates a mail from the destination, the result, and the like. At this time, the application name passed from the application name adding unit 43 is added.

An example of adding the application name is shown in FIG. The application name addition unit 43 uses the keyword “Ap
plication: ”and its value, the application name, are added to the mail information section. After that, the mail creating unit 42 passes the created mail to the mail transfer unit 2. Email transfer unit 2
Sends an email to the corresponding destination. Email receiver 31
When the email is received, the email is passed to the email analysis unit 32. The mail analysis unit 32 analyzes this mail. At that time, the keyword “Applicatio
Pass a pair of "n:" and its value. The application name analysis unit 34 analyzes the application name from the passed information and returns it to the mail analysis unit 32. This makes it possible to determine from which application the email was sent.
The mail analysis unit 32 passes the information necessary for display and the application name to the mail display unit 33. Email display 33
Converts the information necessary for display and the application name into a display format and outputs it to the display device.

FIG. 3 shows an example of displaying a mail list.
In the mail list, the application name is displayed in addition to the sender name and subject. Therefore, the user can determine from which application the email was sent without checking the content. Also, by searching using this item, it becomes possible to delete only the mail of a certain application or display a list.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the electronic mail receiving section 3 can determine from which application the mail was sent, and the operation can be performed for each application.

In this embodiment, an example of displaying a list of mails is given, but the display format and display contents are not limited. Nor is it limited to a list of emails.

(Embodiment 2) Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 4, 5 is an electronic mail receiving unit, 51 is a mail receiving unit that receives electronic mail, 52 is an automatic classifying unit that automatically classifies received electronic mail into folders, and 53 is a user operation for the system. A user instructing unit that gives instructions, 54 is a folder management unit that retrieves e-mail from the corresponding folder, 55 is a mail analysis unit that analyzes the contents of the e-mail,
56 is an application name analysis unit that analyzes from which application the received e-mail is sent, 57 is a mail display unit that creates display information and displays the e-mail, and 58 is an e-mail for each application. Application name that describes the classification destination folder name /
Folder name correspondence file 59 is a folder name / display format correspondence file for setting the display format and display items of the e-mail held in the folder for each folder. 9
.. are folders for classifying electronic mails.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment will be described. The automatic classification unit 52 regularly monitors the mail reception unit 51, and when the mail reception unit 51 receives the e-mail from the mail transfer unit 2 according to the first embodiment, the received mail is passed to the mail analysis unit 55. The mail analysis unit 55 analyzes the electronic mail, analyzes the application from which the electronic mail was sent by the application analysis unit 56, and returns the application name to the automatic classification unit 52, as in the first embodiment. The automatic classification unit 52 analyzes the application name / folder name correspondence file 58, and obtains the folder name corresponding to the application name obtained from the mail analysis unit 55.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the application name / folder name correspondence file 58. The application name / folder name correspondence file 58 is described as a set of an application name and a folder name. After that, the automatic classification unit 52 moves the electronic mail to the corresponding folder and ends the automatic classification. For example, when the application name / folder name correspondence file 58 shown in FIG. 5 is used, if the application transmitted by the received electronic mail is an electronic mail, it is automatically classified into an electronic mail folder and is a schedule management application. In the case, it is automatically classified into the schedule management folder, and when it is the application C, it is automatically classified into the folder C.

When displaying an e-mail, the user designates a folder and an e-mail to the user instructing section 53 and gives an instruction to display the e-mail. The user instruction unit 53 notifies the folder management unit 54 of that fact. The folder management unit 54 takes out the designated electronic mail from the designated folder and passes it to the mail analysis unit 55 together with the folder name. The mail analysis unit 55 refers to the folder name / display format correspondence file 59, obtains information of the electronic mail to be analyzed, analyzes only that information, and passes the analysis result to the mail display unit 57 together with the folder name. The mail display unit 57 refers to the folder name / display format correspondence file 59 to obtain the display format and display items corresponding to the folder name.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the folder name / display format correspondence file 59. Folder name / Display format compatible file 5
Item 9 is described as a set of a display format corresponding to a folder name, a display item, and e-mail information corresponding to each display item. When the mail display unit 57 obtains the display format and display items corresponding to the designated folder, the mail display unit 57 converts the information necessary for display into the display format and outputs the information to a mail display device such as a terminal. For example, when normal e-mail is classified into the folder 91 and e-mail sent from the schedule management application is classified into the folder 92, the folder 91
If you view a regular email in the folder 92
FIG. 7 shows an example in which an electronic mail transmitted from the schedule management application in is displayed.

A normal electronic mail displays the subject, the sender, and the contents of the electronic mail as shown in FIG. 7 (a).
The electronic mail transmitted from the schedule management application is displayed as shown in FIG. 7B with the sender as the schedule input person, the destination of the electronic mail as the conference participant, and the content of the electronic mail as the conference content. By displaying in this way, the user can easily understand that the displayed email was sent from the schedule management application, and the conference participants, which is important information for schedule management, can be easily displayed. it can.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the e-mail receiving unit has the application name / folder name correspondence file 58 in which the classification destination folder name of the e-mail for each application is described, and the received e-mail is electronically sent. By automatically classifying each application transmitted by the mail system, it is possible to reduce the waiting time and the number of operations of the user at the time of an operation such as capturing an electronic mail.

Further, since the electronic mail system has the folder 59, the display format, and the corresponding file 59 of the display items, the analysis time of the mail is shortened, and the display items and the display format suitable for the application that sent the electronic mail are displayed. , It is possible to effectively utilize the memory resources of the computer by accurately displaying information to the user and without operating a plurality of systems. Note that the display examples given in this embodiment do not limit the display format or display items.

(Embodiment 3) Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG.
6 is an e-mail receiving unit, 61 is a broadcast message receiving unit for receiving a broadcast message, 6
Reference numeral 2 denotes a control unit for controlling the display and end of display of a broadcast message, setting and canceling a timer, and an instruction for converting a broadcast message into an electronic mail, 63 a timer control unit for controlling the timer, 6
Reference numeral 4 is a broadcast message display unit for displaying and ending display of the broadcast message, 65 is a broadcast message user instruction unit for instructing the user to confirm that the broadcast message has been read, and 66 is a mail conversion unit for converting the broadcast message into an electronic mail. The other configurations are the same as those of the second embodiment.

Next, the operation of the third embodiment will be described. When receiving the broadcast message transmitted from the broadcast message transmitting device as shown in FIG. 14, the broadcast message receiving unit 61 passes the received message and the sender name of the message to the control unit 62. The control unit 62 instructs the timer control unit 63 to set the timer, and the timer control unit 63 sets the timer. The system may have a fixed time in advance, or the user may set the timer set time by providing a user input unit for setting the timer time in the above configuration. Control unit 62
When the setting of the timer is completed, instructs the broadcast message display unit 64 to display the message. Broadcast message display unit 64 displays a message. When the user presses the confirmation button, the user instruction unit 65 notifies the control unit 62 that the button has been pressed. The control unit 62 instructs the timer control unit 63 to cancel the timer, and the timer control unit 63 cancels the timer. Further, the control unit 62 instructs the broadcast message display unit 64 to end the display of the message, and the broadcast message display unit 64 ends the display of the message.
When the time set in the timer elapses while the message is being displayed, the timer control unit 63 notifies the control unit 62 that the time set in the timer has elapsed. Upon receiving the notification from the timer, the control unit 62 causes the broadcast message display unit 64 to
Is instructed to end the display of the message, and the broadcast message display unit 64 ends the display of the message. Further, the control unit 62 has a mail conversion unit 66.
Pass the message and message originator to. The mail conversion unit 66 creates an e-mail in which the message is the content of the e-mail and the message sender name is the e-mail sender, and passes it to the mail reception unit 51. After that, in the same procedure as in the second embodiment, the message is classified into the broadcast message folder and displayed as an electronic mail, and only the person who receives the message can read the message.

As described above, according to this embodiment, when the received broadcast message is not confirmed by the recipient for a certain period of time, the broadcast message is converted into an electronic mail and the display of the message is terminated. This makes it possible to prevent others from reading the message and preventing the intended recipient from being unable to read the message.

[0046]

As is apparent from the above-described embodiment, the present invention is that, firstly, the electronic mail receiving section can judge from which application the mail was sent. The user can easily perform operations for each application such as "Delete only emails". Second, the e-mail receiving unit sorts the received e-mails into folders for each application and imports them. It is possible to reduce the waiting time of the user and the number of operations during operations such as the third. Thirdly, the e-mail receiving unit has a correspondence between folders, display formats, and display items, which shortens the e-mail analysis time, Displayed in the display item and display format suitable for the application that sent the mail, accurately displaying information to the user, and operating multiple systems. Without the need to use the memory resources of the computer effectively, and fourth, the email receiving unit converts the broadcast message to an email when the recipient does not confirm the received broadcast message for a certain period of time. By ending the display of the message, it is possible to prevent others from reading the message and preventing the intended recipient from being unable to read the message.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic mail system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a format example of an information section of a mail according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a display example in the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic mail receiving section according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of an application name / folder name correspondence file in the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a folder name / display format correspondence file in the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a display example of an electronic mail according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic mail receiving section according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional electronic mail system.

FIG. 10A is a schematic diagram showing an example of the format of an email sent from an electronic mail sending unit; FIG. 10B is a schematic diagram showing an example of the format of an email sent from an application unit.

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram showing a display example in a conventional electronic mail system.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a receiving unit of a conventional electronic mail system.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram showing a display example of an electronic mail in a conventional electronic mail system.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conventional broadcast message system.

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram showing a display example of a broadcast message.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 E-mail transmission unit 2 E-mail transfer unit 3, 5, 6 E-mail reception unit 4 Application unit 11 User instruction unit 12 Mail creation unit 31 Mail reception unit 32 Mail analysis unit 33 Mail display unit 34 Application name analysis unit 41 Application processing unit 42 mail creation unit 43 application name addition unit 51 mail reception unit 52 automatic classification unit 53 user instruction unit 54 folder management unit 55 mail analysis unit 56 application name analysis unit 57 application name / folder name correspondence file 58 folder name / display format correspondence file 61 Broadcast Message Receiving Section 62 Control Section 63 Timer Control Section 64 Broadcast Message Display Section 65 Broadcast Message User Instructing Section 66 Mail Converting Section 91 Folder 92 Folder 93 folder

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An electronic mail system for providing an application using an electronic mail function, wherein an application section comprises an application processing means, a mail creating means, and an application name adding means for adding an application name to an electronic mail. An electronic mail system in which the electronic mail receiving unit includes a mail receiving means, a mail analyzing means, a mail displaying means, and an application name analyzing means for analyzing the added application name. 2. An e-mail receiving unit, a folder group for storing e-mails, folder management means for accessing the folders, means for automatically classifying e-mails into folders for each application, and application names for automatically classifying. 2. The electronic mail system according to claim 1, further comprising means for storing the correspondence between the folder name and the folder name. 3. The electronic mail system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic mail receiving unit includes means for storing correspondence between a folder name and a display format for changing the display format and display items for each folder. . 4. The electronic mail system according to claim 1, wherein the electronic mail receiving unit includes means for converting the received broadcast message into an electronic mail after a predetermined time has elapsed.