KR20030055817A - Mail control method of receiving and deleting mails selectively using mail header information and mail client terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a mail management method and an email client terminal for selectively receiving / deleting mail using mail header information. The present invention receives mail header information from a mail server that can use POP3 (post office protocol version 3) and decides whether to receive or delete a mail body, thereby selectively receiving / deleting mail. To this end, the present invention includes the step of receiving the mail header information from the mail server in advance and displaying it on the mail client screen so that the user can selectively receive or delete the mail body. This reduces the risk of virus infection and reduces the time it takes to receive large unneeded mails because you can receive advertisement mails, such as spam mails, and mails that users choose to receive or delete from the server. .

Description

Mail control method of receiving and deleting mails selectively using mail header information and mail client terminal}

The present invention relates to an electronic mail system, and more particularly, to a method for selectively receiving / deleting mail using mail header information and a mail client terminal.

Recently, communication using electronic mail has been rapidly developed and used by many people. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a general mail transmission and reception structure. Referring to FIG. 1, the mail clients 20 and 40 access the POP3 mail servers 10 and 30 using a PSTN network, the Internet network, or other networks to transmit or receive mail. The mail client 20 of the mail sender connects the mail server 10 by using a simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP), which is a standard protocol used when transmitting mail (e-mail) from the Internet, and receives the mail server 10 through the Internet network. Transfer to server 30. At this time, the receiving mail client 40 receives the mail from the mailbox of the server 30 using POP3. POP3 is the third version of the Post Office Protocol (POP) used to download e-mail. It is the de facto standard for Internet mail communication as a protocol for Internet mail clients to retrieve mail from a mail server.

In FIG. 1, when the receiving mail client 40 completes the connection with the server 30, the POP3 server 30 sends a reply "greeting" to the connected mail client 40. The mail client 40, which has received a reply from the server 30, first inquires whether the server 30 has received the mail sent to itself by an APOP command (user authentication command through password confirmation with the server). The POP3 server 30 then responds with how many mails have arrived. Then, for the LIST command of the mail client 40, the POP3 server 30 sends all received mails in order. The mail client 30 then receives the mail in the mail server 30 by a RETR command.

Terminals with traditional mail client software, such as Outlook Express, will receive all mail (or new mail) on the mail server. Therefore, they may receive advertisement mail such as spam mail or mail containing viruses. That is, there is a disadvantage in that the user cannot select and receive the mail arriving at the mail server. Nor can you selectively delete mail before the user receives it from the server.

As a result, there is a high risk that the mail client terminal is infected with a virus because the mail user has no choice but to receive advertisement mail such as spam mail or the user can select and delete mail containing a virus from the server. I was forced to spend a lot of time receiving unnecessary mail.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to solve the above disadvantages, because the user can receive the advertisement mail, such as spam mail or mail containing the virus can be selected by the user or deleted from the server, there is a risk of virus infection It is an object of the present invention to provide a mail management method and a mail client terminal for selectively receiving / deleting mail using mail header information, which can reduce the time for receiving unnecessary mail.

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the above disadvantages, by using the mail header information, before receiving the mail from the mail server, by displaying the mail header information of the received mail in advance on the screen whether to delete or receive Mail management method and mail selectively receiving / deleting mail using mail header information which allows user to select and delete selected mail is deleted from mail server and received selected mail is read from mail server The purpose is to provide a client terminal.

1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a general mail transmission and reception structure.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of selectively receiving / deleting mail using mail header information according to the present invention.

3 is a view showing mail header information according to the present invention and a display window for selecting mail based on the mail header information.

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300 ... mail folder name, 345 ... mail header folder

350 ... Mail Header Display Window, 355 ... Receive / Delete Mark

In order to achieve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a mail management method of a mail client that receives mail from a mail server, wherein the user selectively selects and displays mail header information included in the received mail on a mail client screen. It provides a mail management method comprising the step of receiving or deleting the mail body.

Preferably, the method further comprises the step of transmitting and storing the number and size of the mail arrived at the mail server by a command from the terminal.

Preferably, receiving mail header information by a command from a terminal, analyzing the received mail header to extract information such as the sender, subject, date and time, and based on the extracted mail header information, And displaying the mail header information on the mail on the mail client terminal.

Preferably, the mail header information may be in the form of a list including a sender, a recipient, a date, a subject, and the like, and the list includes an item for checking whether or not to receive it or an item for checking for deletion. The user can view the list and mark the mail to be received and the mail to be deleted.

Preferably, when the user wants to receive, select the number of the mail to be received, command the selected mail to receive a corresponding mail, select the number of the mail to delete when the user wants to delete, and select A command is given to the mail, the corresponding mail is deleted, and a stop command is sent to stop displaying the mail header information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above technical problem, in a mail client terminal that receives a mail from a mail server, the mail header information included in the received mail is received in advance and displayed on the mail client screen. Provides a terminal incorporating a mail client program that allows a user to selectively receive or delete a mail body.

Preferably, the mail header information displayed on the terminal may be in the form of a list including a sender, a recipient, a date, a subject, and the like, and the list includes an item for checking receipt or an item for deletion. The user can view the list and display the mail to be received and the mail to be deleted.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be described in more detail with respect to the configuration and operation according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The "mail header" used in the present invention will first be briefly described. The mail header is an area that contains information such as 'sender', 'recipient', 'path' or 'environment' necessary for the process of sending and receiving mail. Depending on the system reading the mail from the mail server, the mail header may or may not be visible, and is generally not essential to users. If you don't see the mail header in the mail reader, you can view the original text by clicking the text button at the top right of the body of the mail.

Meanwhile, the variables generally used in the mail header are as follows. Received is the route through which received mail is delivered. If Received is more than one line, it has passed through a server other than the server sending and receiving mail. Message-ID is an identification number assigned to the mail. From is the sender address. To is the recipient address. Subject is the letter subject. Date is the date the letter was sent. X-mail is a mail program used by the sender. Content-Transfer-Encoding is a method of encoding mail contents. The Content-Type represents the type and character setting of the mail.

In the present invention, the mail header information of the mail arriving at the mail server is displayed in advance on the mail client terminal so that the mail receiving user receives the mail header information before receiving the mail body and selectively receives only the desired mail. In other words, in the present invention, when receiving a mail using a mail client, the mail header is first received, the user is provided with a list of information on the mail, and the mail is only considered to be necessary after the user reviews the mail list. To receive it. In addition, the mail that the user feels that it does not need to be received can be deleted directly from the server without receiving the mail body. According to the present invention, a mail management method for enabling a user to selectively receive / delete mail through mail header information will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3.

Up to now, when the receiving mail client clicks on a mail client program such as Outlook Express to connect to the receiving mail server, as an example, the inbox of the local folder is automatically displayed. However, in the present invention, as shown in step 200 of FIG. Similarly, when the receiving mail client 40 clicks a mail client program such as Outlook Express to connect to the receiving mail server 30, the mail header information of the 'mail header information' folder is displayed. In the present invention, the electronic mail display screen further includes a mail header information folder, one preferred embodiment of which is displayed as shown in FIG. In FIG. 3, the mail header information screen is configured as in the Outlook Express mail screen, showing the name of the mail header information 300 at the top, and then editing the file (F), view (V), and tool (T). ), A message line (M), a help (H), and the like, and a menu line 310, and underneath the user action menu line 320, such as mail writing, accounting, replying to all, forwarding, printing, deleting, address book, and searching, Below, there is a line 330 indicating the name of the mail header information once again, and the local folder string of the mail is displayed at 340 at the left end of the mail header information body, and the mail header information folder 345 of the present invention in the local folder. ) Is included. As shown in FIG. 3, the mail header information folder may be designed to be included in a local folder. However, the mail header information folder may be configured as a folder that is independent of the local folder. When the mail header information screen is clicked on, a mail client program such as Outlook Express may be used. It is desirable to automatically display the initial screen of the client terminal. In addition, when the mail header information 350 is displayed at the right end of the body of the mail header information of FIG. 3, the mail header information 350 is provided with a deletion display field 355 so that the user can view the mail header information and delete the mail before receiving it from the mail server. have.

Referring to FIG. 2, the client terminal connects to the mail server through the PSTN or other network in step 200 and then authenticates the mail server in step 210. Then, when the LIST command is given to the server (step 220), the server sends the number and size for each mail. Although not shown in FIG. 3, the client terminal stores the size of each mail in a memory. Next, the terminal receives the mail header information using the TOP command, analyzes the received mail header, and extracts information such as a sender, a subject, a date, and a time (step 240). Based on the mail header information, the mail client program displays mail header information for each mail on the mail client terminal as shown in FIG. 3 (step 250). In this case, the display form may be a form such as a list including a sender, a recipient, a date, a title, and the like that appear in a general web mail. This list includes items that check for receipt or items that check for deletion. The user can view this list and mark the corresponding item if there is a mail to be received and a message to delete. Mark the desired item and execute the action. That is, in step 260, when the user wants to receive the message, the user selects the number of the mail to be received (step 262), gives the selected mail a RETR command (step 264), and receives the corresponding mail (step 266). On the other hand, when the user wishes to delete in step 270, the user selects the number of the e-mail to be deleted (step 272), gives a DELETE command to the selected mail (step 274), and deletes the corresponding mail (step 276). After step 266 and step 276, the terminal sends a QUIT command to stop displaying the mail header information (step 280). At this time, there may be a variety of methods depending on the implementation method. For example, if you check a desired mail from a list of mail information and press a designated button such as 'Receive', it sends a RETR command to receive the mail. If you want to delete any mail, check the mail and press the designated button such as 'Delete'. Then send a DELETE command to delete the mail.

In the present invention, the mail client program including the mail management method including the above-mentioned mail header information can be executed by being installed in the terminal. This is similar to the structure of the existing mail client program, but only the mail body is retrieved from the mail server. The difference in the above is that the mail size information or the mail header information is called. However, the person who understands the above-described mail management method of the present invention can fully understand the configuration and operation of the mail client terminal of the present invention. Will be omitted.

Thus, by using the present invention, when there are many spam mails such as unnecessary advertisement mails, it is not necessary to receive them from the server one by one. In addition, the subject of the mail may be determined based on the importance of the mail, and the mail may not be received if the mail size is unnecessarily large.

Terminologies used herein are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may vary according to the intention or practice of a person skilled in the art, and the definitions should be made based on the contents throughout the present application. . In addition, since the present invention has been described through the preferred embodiment of the present invention, in view of the technical difficulty aspects of the present invention, those having ordinary skill in the art can easily be different from another embodiment of the present invention. Since modifications may be made, it is obvious that both the embodiments and modifications using the concepts in the above description belong to the claims of the present invention.

As described above, in the present invention, in the case of an unsolicited advertisement mail or a mail containing a virus, only the header information of the mail is received and displayed to the user, so that the user does not need to receive or receive only the mail deemed necessary. If you think about mail, delete it right from the server. By doing so, the user can receive only the desired mail, and unnecessary mail can be deleted directly from the server, thereby reducing the risk of virus infection. In addition, when the size information of the mail is included, the time for receiving unnecessary or large mail can be reduced by not receiving unnecessarily large mail.

Claims (7)

In the mail management method of a mail client that receives mail from a mail server, Receiving mail header information included in the received mail in advance and displaying it on a mail client screen so that the user can selectively receive or delete the mail body. The mail management method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting and storing a number and a size of a mail arrived at a mail server by a command from the terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein the mail header information is received by a command from the terminal, the received mail header is analyzed to extract information such as a sender, a subject, a date, and a time, and the mail is extracted based on the extracted mail header information. And the client program displays mail header information for each mail on the mail client terminal. The method of claim 1, wherein the mail header information may be in the form of a list including a sender, a recipient, a date, a subject, and the like, and the list includes an item for checking whether to receive it or an item for checking for deletion. A method for managing a mail, characterized in that a user can view this list and mark mails to be received and mails to be deleted. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the user wants to receive the message, he selects the number of the mail he wants to receive, gives a command to the selected mail to receive the corresponding mail, and selects the number of the mail he wants to delete when the user wants to delete, A mail management method, characterized in that a command is sent to the selected mail, the corresponding mail is deleted, and a stop command is sent to stop displaying the mail header information. In a mail client terminal for receiving mail from a mail server, A terminal incorporating a mail client program that receives a mail header information included in an arrived mail in advance and displays the mail header on a mail client screen so that a user can selectively receive or delete a mail body. The mail header information displayed on the terminal may be in the form of a list including a sender, a recipient, a date, a subject, and the like. Included, the terminal characterized in that the user can view the list and receive and receive mail and delete the mail.