JP2001053788A - Method and system for electronic mail data transmission - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic mail data transmission method which enables shortening of a mail transmission time, precise information communication, reduction of loads on a transmitter, a line failure, and registration of electronic mail data even at the time of a device failure when a mail is sent to a large number of recipients. SOLUTION: An electronic mail data registration processing part 4 reads electronic mail data stored in advance by batch processing form a user transmission data file 5 at the time of transmitting the electronic mail data to subscriber users 2a to 2n, and registers them to an electronic mail data file 3 of an electronic mail system 1 by batch processing. The subscriber users 2a to 2n are connected to the electronic mail system 1 by personal computer communication and, when they try to read an electronic mail, the electronic mail process processing part 4 reads the electronic mail data already registered in the electronic mail data file group 3 by batch processing and transmits them to the subscriber users 2a to 2n.

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, wherein electronic mail data created in advance and registered in a user transmission data file is transmitted to a subscriber user. And read it in batches, register it in the email data file group of the email system by batch processing,
The present invention relates to an electronic mail data transmission method and system in which electronic mail data is transmitted from a group of electronic mail data files to a user subscriber by batch processing in an electronic mail processing unit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recent personal computers (hereinafter, referred to as personal computers)
With the spread of personal computers (PCs), personal computer communications are also evolving. An e-mail service for transmitting and exchanging information using personal computer communication has also been remarkably developed.

[0003] With regard to electronic mail using a computer including such a personal computer, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-3299 discloses an attached file generating unit in an e-mail transmitting apparatus, in which an attached file describing a method of accessing a designated file is described. The mail tool attaches the generated attached file to the mail tool message to generate mail data, and transmits the mail data to the designated destination via the mail server. In the mail receiving device, the mail reader extracts an attached file from the mail data received via the mail server. It is disclosed that the attached file analysis unit analyzes an access method described in the attached file, and the file reception unit accesses the file management / transmission tool according to the access method, and receives and displays the specified file. ing.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-126600 discloses that, when a logical address of a transmission destination is selected, a data transmission means is automatically determined and data transmission / reception can be performed. A storage unit for registering the address and the data transmission unit in correspondence with each other, and when a destination logical address is specified, the data transmission unit corresponding to the specified logical address with reference to the storage unit,
It is disclosed that data is transmitted to a transmission destination.

Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 07-73123 discloses an editing means for editing input information of an operator on a terminal, recognition information and a password of an operator who operates a terminal, and connection to a host computer. A communication connecting means for executing the procedure, and interrupting the editing process of the editing means during operation of the editing means, prompting for input of identification information of the mail destination, storing the communication connecting means, and sending the mail and the mail transmitter to the host computer. There is disclosed an e-mail processing system including a communication control unit that sequentially executes transmission and registration of identification information and restarts an editing operation by an editing unit after a mail transmission procedure is completed.

In addition, regarding an electronic mail service by personal computer communication, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 07-11079
No. 2 (e-mail information processing apparatus) discloses performing processing registered in advance by an e-mail user on received e-mail information.

That is, an e-mail user registers predetermined routine processing to be performed on e-mail information addressed to the user in an arithmetic program storage memory or a fixed-form conversion program storage memory, and the registered processing is performed by the e-mail processing. Based on the identification code recorded in the information, the processing is performed by the standard processing operation unit or the standard processing conversion unit, and the processing result is stored in the recipient's mailbox and sent to the e-mail user. Further, when the e-mail user registers a specific e-mail user in the address storage memory as a delivery destination of the e-mail information addressed to the user, the processing of the registered e-mail user to the terminal of the registered e-mail user is performed. The result is automatically delivered as electronic mail information.

[0008] Registered Utility Model No. 3036604 (automatic e-mail device) is provided so that data can be accurately transferred to a desired partner terminal device by automatically confirming the partner device. To automatically receive data from another terminal via a telephone network by a facsimile data transfer procedure or a general data transfer procedure, and store the received data in the first storage means. In an automatic e-mail apparatus for transferring a storage means to an arbitrary destination terminal under the control of the control means, the self-terminal ID of the automatic e-mail apparatus and the partner terminal IDs of a plurality of communication partner terminals are previously stored in the second storage means. If it is confirmed that the partner terminal ID obtained at the time of the incoming call is registered in the second storage unit by the collating operation of the collating unit, the originating terminal To with self terminal ID, sends back a communication enable notification, the control means has been described that is configured to store in the first storage means receives the data from the originating terminal.

[0009]

However, all of the conventional electronic mail related devices including the above publications have the following problems. A first problem is that when an e-mail is transmitted to many recipients at once, it is possible that the e-mail may not reach the transmission destination reliably. The reason is,
This is because transmission is performed by specifying a destination mail address, and transmission may not be possible due to an error in the specification of mail addresses of a large number of recipients, an error in the mail itself due to an error in the mail body, or a physical failure such as a line failure. . A second problem is that the burden on the transmission operator increases. The reason is that, when sending an e-mail to many recipients at once, it is necessary to specify each destination e-mail address and send the e-mail.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and has been made to reduce the time required to send an e-mail when sending e-mails to a large number of recipients at once, and to provide accurate information notification. Registration of e-mail data as long as batch processing can be performed even when communication is not possible due to line failure or equipment failure, etc. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic mail data transmission method and system capable of transmission.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, an electronic mail data transmission method according to the present invention provides an electronic mail data registration process for storing electronic mail data to be transmitted to a subscriber user created in a user transmission data file in advance. A first step of reading by batch processing in the electronic mail system and registering it in an electronic mail data file group of the electronic mail system by batch processing; and a step in which the subscriber user connects to the electronic mail system by personal computer communication to connect to the electronic mail data file group. A second step of reading out the e-mail data from the e-mail data file group by the e-mail processing unit in the e-mail system when reading out the e-mail data registered in the e-mail system and transmitting the data to the subscriber user by batch processing And including To.

Therefore, the electronic mail data to be transmitted to the subscriber user is registered in the user transmission data file in advance, and the electronic mail data is transmitted to the subscriber user. , Read out the e-mail data by batch processing, register it in the e-mail data file group of the e-mail system by batch processing, and read out the e-mail data registered in this e-mail data file group by the e-mail processing unit by batch processing And send it to the subscriber users in a batch process, shortening the e-mail transmission time when sending e-mails to many recipients at once, enabling accurate notification of information, and In addition to reducing the burden, line and equipment failures Also in the communication is impossible state due to, if the batch processing is operable, registration of e-mail data, it is possible to transmit.

[0013] Further, the electronic mail data transmission system of the present invention includes a user transmission data file in which electronic mail data to be transmitted to a subscriber user is created and registered in advance, and the electronic mail registered in the user transmission data file. An e-mail data processing unit for reading data by batch processing and registering the data in a group of e-mail data files of the e-mail system by batch processing; and the subscriber user connects to the e-mail system by computer communication to the e-mail data file. An e-mail process processing unit for reading the e-mail data from the e-mail data file group when reading the e-mail data registered in the group, and transmitting the read e-mail data to the subscriber user by batch processing.

Therefore, when transmitting an e-mail to a subscriber user, the e-mail data registered in advance in the user transmission data file is read out by batch processing in the e-mail data processing section, and the e-mail data file group of the e-mail system is read. The e-mail processing unit of the e-mail system reads out the e-mail data registered in the e-mail data file group by batch processing and transmits it to the subscriber user connected to the e-mail system. In addition to shortening the e-mail transmission time when sending e-mails to a large number of recipients at once, enabling accurate notification of information and reducing the burden on the sender, line failure and equipment failure Even when communication is not possible due to, for example, batch processing is Lever, registration of e-mail data, it is possible to transmission.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of an electronic mail data transmission method and system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the first embodiment of the electronic mail data transmission system according to the present invention. A plurality of subscriber users 2a to 2n subscribing to the electronic mail system 1 in FIG. 1 are connected. The e-mail system 1 includes an e-mail data file group 3 and an e-mail process processing unit 4.

The electronic mail data file group 3 includes a sender mail information file 3a, a receiver mail information file 3b, and a mail text data file 3c.
The sender mail information file 3a stores information when a subscriber user sends an electronic mail. The recipient mail information file 3b stores information when the subscriber user receives an e-mail. The mail text data file 3c stores the email text of the subscriber user.

The sender mail information file 3a, the receiver mail information file 3b, the mail text data file 3c
The e-mail processing unit 4 reads out the e-mail data stored in the e-mail data processing unit 4 in accordance with the e-mail data readout procedure S3, and reads out the data.
2n through 2n in accordance with the electronic mail data transmission procedure S4.

The user transmission data file 5 includes:
E-mail data to be transmitted to the subscriber users 2a to 2n is stored in advance. The e-mail data stored in the e-mail text data file 3c is read by the e-mail data registration processing unit 6 by batch processing according to the user transmission data file reading procedure S1. This e-mail data registration processing unit 6
A user transmission data file 6a for reading the e-mail data stored in the user transmission data file 5 by batch processing, and a user transmission to the e-mail data file group 3 for the e-mail data read from the user transmission data file 5 by batch processing. A user transmission data file registration unit 6b for registering in accordance with the data file registration procedure S2.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment of the electronic mail data transmission system according to the present invention configured as described above will be described. The description of the operation of the first embodiment of the electronic mail data transmission system will also serve as the description of the first embodiment of the electronic mail data transmission method according to the present invention.

First, the operator operates the subscriber users 2a to 2n.
The e-mail data to be transmitted to the user is created and stored in the user transmission data file 5 in advance. Next, the user transmission data file reading unit 6a in the electronic mail data registration processing unit 6 reads the e-mail data from the user transmission data file 5 according to the user transmission data file reading procedure S1, and the user transmission data file registration unit 6b Then, it registers in the e-mail data file group 3 according to the user transmission data file registration procedure S2.

At the time of registration in the electronic mail data file group 3, the sender mail information of the electronic mail data registered in the user transmission data file 5 is registered in the sender mail information file 3a. The recipient mail information is registered in the recipient mail information file 3b. Further, the mail text is registered in the mail text data file 3c.

Next, when the subscriber users 2a to 2n connect to the electronic mail system 1 by personal computer communication and try to read the electronic mail by the conventional procedure, the electronic mail process processing unit 4 E-mail data registered in the mail data file group 3 is obtained from the sender mail information file 3a, the receiver mail information file 3b, and the mail text data file 3c by batch processing according to the e-mail data reading procedure S3, respectively.
By transmitting to the subscriber users 2a to 2n according to the e-mail data transmission procedure S4, the subscriber user 2
a to 2n can be read as if the e-mail was sent from the sender.

As described above, in each of the first embodiments of the electronic mail data transmission method and system according to the present invention, the transmission data file of the subscriber user is created in advance and registered in the user transmission data file to register the electronic mail. When sending a large number of e-mails to the subscriber user, for example, the sender, for example, the operator, It is possible to shorten the e-mail transmission time and notify accurate information, reduce the burden on the sender, and even if communication is impossible due to line failure or equipment failure, if batch processing can be operated, E-mail data can be registered in the e-mail data file group.

[0024]

As described above, according to the e-mail data transmission method of the present invention, e-mail data to be transmitted to the subscriber user is registered in the user transmission data file in advance, and the e-mail data registration processing unit The e-mail data is read from the user transmission data file by batch processing, and registered in the e-mail data file group by batch processing, and the e-mail data registered in the e-mail data file group is batch-processed by the e-mail process processing unit. Since it is read out and sent to subscriber users by batch processing, it is possible to shorten the e-mail transmission time when sending e-mails to many recipients at once, and to perform accurate information notification, and It can reduce the burden on the sender, and can reduce line and equipment failures. Even impossible due to the communication state, if the batch processing is operable, registration of e-mail data, it is possible to transmit.

According to the electronic mail transmission system of the present invention, when transmitting an electronic mail to a subscriber user, the electronic mail data registered in advance in the user transmission data file is batch processed by the electronic mail data processing unit. Read out and register in the e-mail data file group, read out the e-mail data registered in the e-mail data file group by batch processing in the e-mail process processing section, and transmit it to the subscriber user connected to the e-mail system As a result, it is possible to shorten the e-mail transmission time when sending e-mails to a large number of recipients at one time, to perform accurate information notification, and to reduce the burden on the sender, Even if communication is not possible due to line failure or equipment failure, batch processing can be operated. If, registration of e-mail data, it is possible to transmission.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... E-mail system, 2a-2n ... Subscriber user, 3 ... E-mail data file group, 3a ... Sender mail information file, 3b ... Recipient mail information file, 3c ... E-mail body data file , 4 ... E-mail process processing unit, 5 ... User transmission data file, 6 ... E-mail data registration processing unit, 6a ... User transmission data file reading unit, 6b ... User transmission data file registration unit, S1 ... ... user transmission data file reading procedure, S2 ... user transmission data file registration procedure, S3 ... e-mail data reading file procedure, S4 ... e-mail data transmission procedure.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An e-mail data registration processing unit reads out e-mail data to be transmitted to a subscriber user created in a user transmission data file in advance by batch processing and registers the data in a group of e-mail data files of an e-mail system by batch processing. An e-mail processing unit in the e-mail system when the subscriber user connects to the e-mail system by personal computer communication to read the e-mail data registered in the e-mail data file group; Reading the electronic mail data from the electronic mail data file group and transmitting the electronic mail data to the subscriber user by batch processing. 2. An electronic mail data registration processing unit, comprising: a user transmission data file reading unit that reads electronic mail data from the user transmission data file; and an electronic mail data reading unit that reads the electronic mail data read by the user transmission data file reading unit. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a user transmission data file registration unit for registering the electronic mail data file group. 3. The e-mail data file group includes a sender mail information file storing information when the subscriber user sends an e-mail, and an information when the subscriber user receives an e-mail. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising: a recipient mail information file in which is stored a mail body data file storing an electronic mail body of the subscriber user. 4. An electronic mail system in which electronic mail data to be transmitted to a subscriber user is created and registered in advance, and said electronic mail data registered in said user transmission data file is read out by batch processing. An e-mail data processing unit that registers the e-mail data files in the e-mail data file group by batch processing; and reads out the e-mail data registered in the e-mail data file group by connecting the subscriber user to the e-mail system by computer communication. An e-mail data processing system for reading the e-mail data from the e-mail data file group and transmitting the e-mail data to the subscriber user by batch processing. 5. The electronic mail data registration processing unit includes: a user transmission data file reading unit that reads electronic mail data from the user transmission data file; and an electronic mail data reading unit that reads the electronic mail data read by the user transmission data file reading unit. 5. The electronic mail data transmission system according to claim 4, further comprising a user transmission data file registration unit for registering the electronic mail data file group. 6. The e-mail data file group includes a sender mail information file in which information when the subscriber user transmits an e-mail, and information when the subscriber user receives an e-mail. 5. The electronic mail data transmission system according to claim 4, further comprising: a recipient mail information file in which is stored a mail body data file in which a mail body of the subscriber user is stored.