JPH04353951A - Eliminating system for mail in electronic mail system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of mail elimination work. CONSTITUTION:An elimination object mail condition judgement means 5 generates a retrieval condition from a condition which an elimination object mail condition input means 4 inputs. An elimination object mail retrieval means 6 retrieves a mail being elimination object from a mail box file by the retrieval condition. An elimination object mail recognition means 7 recognizes the elimination of the mail being the elimination object through an input/output means 9 which is previously provided. An objective mail elimination means 8 eliminates the mail whose elimination is recognized by the elimination object mail recognition means 7 from the mail box file.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for deleting mail based on specified conditions in an electronic mail system.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in electronic mail systems, when a mail is to be deleted, the mail to be deleted is determined based on the ID of the mail. Therefore, even if you wanted to delete multiple emails, you had to delete them one by one.

0003

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The mail deletion method of the conventional e-mail system described above has the disadvantage that when a plurality of mails are to be deleted, the mails must be deleted one by one, which is not efficient.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] The invention shown in FIG. 1 provides a mail deletion method in an electronic mail system, which includes a deletion target mail condition input means for inputting deletion conditions for a mail to be deleted, and a deletion target mail condition input means. A deletion target mail condition determining means for creating a search condition from the conditions input by the above, a deletion target mail search means for searching a mailbox file for a deletion target mail according to the search conditions, and a deletion target mail containing the above-mentioned mails to be deleted in advance. and a target mail deletion means for deleting the mail whose deletion has been confirmed by the deletion target mail confirmation means from the mailbox file.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of a mailbox file 2, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of mail 3.

As shown in FIG. 2, the mailbox file 2 has a delivery result notification queue 21, a received mail queue 22, and a saved mail queue 23, and the mail 3 is connected to the queue corresponding to the type. There is. Also, Figure 3
As shown in , one email 3 has "message identifier = NEC0010", "sender = Inoue", and "sending time =
90-04-03/12:00", "Expiry date = 90-
04-30/18:00", etc., has additional mail information 31. “Message identifier=NEC00
10'' is the ID of the mail 3, and only one exists in the mailbox file 2, and the mail 3 to be deleted is determined by this ID. However, there are a plurality of e-mails 3 whose sender is "Inoue," e-mails 3 whose sending time is before or after the specified time, and e-mails 3 whose expiration date has passed. This allows you to delete email 3 as shown below.
Search for.

First, when a mail deletion request is received from the input/output means 9, the deletion target mail condition input means 4 in the electronic mail system 1 acquires the conditions of the mail to be deleted, and the acquired conditions are used as the deletion target mail condition input means 4. The mail condition determining means 5 determines which information corresponds to the mail additional information 31 in the mail 3 and transmits it to the deletion target mail search means 6 as a condition for searching for the mail 3 in the mailbox file 2. .

[0009] The deletion target mail search means 6 searches the mail 3 in the delivery result notification queue 21 for a mail 3 that satisfies the mail conditions to be deleted, and when the mail 3 that satisfies the conditions is found, the ID of the mail 3 is retrieved. Notify the deletion target email confirmation means 7. The deletion target mail confirmation means 7 confirms whether or not the deletion target mail is to be deleted via the input/output means 9. If deletion is requested, the deletion target mail confirmation means 7 transmits the ID of the deletion target mail to the target mail deletion means 8, and deletes the target mail. The deletion means 8 deletes the mail 3 to be deleted. If deletion of the deletion target mail is not requested, the next mail 3 in the delivery result notification queue 21 is searched by the deletion target mail search means 6. If the mail 3 to be deleted exists, the target mail 3 is deleted again by the deletion target mail confirmation means 7 and the target mail deletion means 8. Mail 3 in delivery result notification queue 21
When the search for mail 3 in the received mail queue 22 is completed, the mail 3 in the stored mail queue 23 is searched. The above-described process is repeated until the search for all mails 3 is completed.

0010

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention enables simultaneous deletion of multiple emails by specifying conditions for emails to be deleted in an email system and searching for all emails that meet the conditions. This has the effect of making email deletion work more efficient.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a mail deletion method in an e-mail system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a mail structure in a mailbox file.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of additional information of an email.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 E-mail system 2 Mailbox file 3 Mail 4 Deletion target mail condition input means 5 Deletion target mail condition determination means 6 Deletion target mail search means 7 Deletion target mail confirmation means 8 Target mail deletion means 9 Output/input means 21 Waiting for delivery result notification Queue 22 Received mail queue 23 Saved mail queue 31 Mail additional information

Claims (1)

[Claims] [Claim 1] A mail deletion method in an electronic mail system, comprising a deletion target mail condition input means for inputting deletion conditions for a deletion target mail, and search conditions are created from the conditions input by the deletion target mail condition input means. Deletion is confirmed through a deletion target mail condition determination means for determining the deletion target mail condition, a deletion target mail search means for searching the mailbox file for the deletion target mail according to the search conditions, and an input/output means provided in advance with the deletion target mail. and a target mail deletion means for deleting the mail whose deletion has been confirmed by the deletion target mail confirmation means from the mailbox file. Deletion method.