JP2001075891A - Device and method for receiving electronic mail, and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic mail receiving device for easily judging when a received mail has been sent from at a glance. SOLUTION: This electronic mail receiving device is provided with the electric mail receiving means of an electronic mail transmitting and receiving means 6, a received mail address check means 7 for judging whether or not the address of the received mail is the address of a specific person or group, a receiving mail classifying means 8 for classifying the received mails into the specific person or group and the other persons and group based on the judged result of the received mail address check means 7, an icon setting means 9 for applying an icon for the received mail of the specific person or group from among icons preliminarily stored in an icon storing part 12 to the received mail classified into the specific person or group by the received mail classifying means 8, and a mail storing means 10 for storing the received mail to which the icon for the received mail of a specific person or group is applied in a mail storing part 13.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail receiving apparatus for receiving and processing electronic mail, an electronic mail receiving method for receiving and processing electronic mail, and a record for executing the electronic mail receiving method. It is about media.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, the number of users who use e-mail is rapidly increasing, and the exchange of e-mail is deeply permeating our lives as a daily communication method.
When receiving e-mail, it is possible to judge from whom the received e-mail (received e-mail) was sent and automatically store the e-mail in a user-specified place such as an arbitrary directory. It is possible. However, it is difficult to judge who sent the message just by looking at the list of received mails after storing received mails, which are increasing day by day, by classifying them into folders and storing them. Such classification and storage are factors that hinder the use efficiency of the e-mail receiving device.

On the other hand, at present, the number of e-mail users is increasing day by day, and the number of e-mails exchanged by one user is also increasing. The function to determine by is indispensable.

[0004]

As described above, in the conventional e-mail receiving apparatus, it is not easy to determine who sent the e-mail only by looking at the list of the received e-mails. However, there is a problem that the use efficiency of the e-mail receiving device is reduced.

The electronic mail receiving apparatus, the electronic mail receiving method, and the recording medium are required to be able to easily determine who sent the received mail at a glance.

[0006] The present invention provides an e-mail receiving apparatus capable of easily determining at a glance who is a received e-mail, and an e-mail receiving apparatus capable of easily judging from whom the received e-mail is sent. An object of the present invention is to provide an e-mail receiving method for determining the e-mail and a recording medium for executing the e-mail receiving method.

[0007]

In order to solve this problem, an electronic mail receiving apparatus according to the present invention comprises an electronic mail receiving means for receiving an electronic mail, and a received mail which is the mail received by the electronic mail receiving means. Receiving mail address checking means for determining whether or not the address is an address of a specific person or group; and receiving mail based on a result of the determination by the receiving mail address checking means for a specific person or group and another person or group. The received mail classified by the received mail classifying means and the received mail classified by the received mail classifying means into a specific person or group. Icon setting means for assigning a mail icon, and a received mail icon for a specific person or group And a structure having a receiving mail storage means for storing the given reception mail in the mail storage unit.

As a result, an electronic mail receiving apparatus can be obtained which makes it possible to easily determine at a glance who the mail is from.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, an electronic mail receiving method according to the present invention comprises an electronic mail receiving step for receiving an electronic mail, and a receiving mail address which is the mail received in the electronic mail receiving step. Or, a received mail address check step of determining whether the address is a group address, and a received mail classifying the received mail into a specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address check step The received mail classified into the specific person or group in the classification step and the received mail classification step is provided with a received mail icon of the specific person or group from among the icons stored in the icon storage unit in advance. Icon setting step and received mail of specific person or group And a structure having a mail storage step of storing a received mail that has been granted the icon in the mail storage unit.

Thus, there is provided an electronic mail receiving method for easily determining at a glance who received the mail from.

[0011] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a recording medium of the present invention comprises: an e-mail receiving step for receiving an e-mail; and an address of the received e-mail received in the e-mail receiving step is a specific person or group. A received mail address check step of determining whether or not the received mail is an address of the received mail; and a received mail classification step of classifying the received mail into a specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address check step. And for the received mail classified into a specific person or group in the received mail classification step,
An icon setting step of assigning a received mail icon for a specific person or group from among icons stored in advance in the icon storage unit, and storing received mail to which a received mail icon for a specific person or group is assigned. And a program for executing a mail storing step to be stored in the section.

Thus, a recording medium for executing the above-described electronic mail receiving method is obtained.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An electronic mail receiving apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention has an electronic mail receiving means for receiving an electronic mail, and an address of a received mail which is the mail received by the electronic mail receiving means. Incoming mail address checking means for determining whether an address is for a specific person or group, and classifying received mail into a specific person or group and another person or group based on the result of determination by the received mail address checking means The received mail classified by the received mail classifying means and the received mail classified into the specified person or group by the received mail classifying means, from among the icons stored in the icon storage unit in advance, the received mail icon of the specified person or group. Icon setting means for giving a received mail icon of a specific person or group. In which it was decided to have the received mail storage means for storing the Le in the mail storage unit.

With this configuration, the received mail is classified for each specific person or group, and an icon is given to the classified received mail. Therefore, the received mail is classified by the icon. It is possible to easily determine at a glance whether the received mail is received.

An electronic mail receiving device according to a second aspect of the present invention comprises:
A drawing unit for displaying information such as characters and graphics on a display device is provided, and the drawing unit displays the electronic mail received by the electronic mail receiving unit on the display device.

This has the effect that the received mail can be easily displayed visually.

According to a third aspect of the invention, there is provided an electronic mail receiving method,
An e-mail receiving step for receiving an e-mail, a received e-mail address checking step of determining whether an address of the received e-mail received in the e-mail receiving step is an address of a specific person or a group, A received mail classification step of classifying the received mail into a specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address check step, and a reception classified into a specific person or group in the received mail classification step For the mail, an icon setting step of giving a received mail icon of a specific person or group from among the icons stored in the icon storage unit in advance, and a receiving mail icon of a specific person or group is given. Mail storage to store received mail in mail storage In which it was decided to have a step.

According to this configuration, the received mail is classified for each specific person or group, and an icon is given to the classified received mail. Therefore, the received mail is classified by the icon. It is possible to easily determine at a glance whether the received mail is received.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the recording medium, an e-mail receiving step for receiving an e-mail and an address of the received e-mail received in the e-mail receiving step are addresses of a specific person or a group. A received mail address check step of determining whether or not the received mail is received, a received mail classification step of classifying the received mail into a specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address check step, An icon setting step of, for the received mail classified into a specific person or group in the classification step, an icon for a received mail of a specific person or group from among icons stored in an icon storage unit in advance; With the icon for the received mail of the person or group It is obtained by the recording a program for executing the mail storage step of storing Lumpur mail storage.

According to this configuration, the electronic mail receiving method according to the third aspect has an effect of being easily implemented at an arbitrary place and at an arbitrary time.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

(Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is an apparatus block diagram showing an electronic mail transmitting / receiving apparatus having an electronic mail receiving apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a storage medium 15 described later.
A central processing unit that controls various operations by executing a program recorded in a display device such as a CRT monitor or a liquid crystal device that displays information such as characters and images of an e-mail. An input device 4, a main storage device for temporarily storing a program or data being processed, a storage device 5 for storing received mail (received mail), a mail management module, and the like, and an e-mail installed by the storage medium 15 A secondary storage device for storing a program for realizing the receiving method; 14 a communication device connected to a mail server via a telephone line or the like;
Is a recording medium such as a CD-ROM or a DVD-ROM in which a program for realizing the electronic mail receiving method according to the present embodiment is recorded. The devices 1 to 5 and 14 and the medium 15 which constitute the electronic mail transmitting / receiving device of FIG. 1 have a common configuration for the receiving device and the transmitting device.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram functionally showing an electronic mail transmitting / receiving apparatus having the electronic mail receiving apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, in which the function realizing means, that is, the central processing unit 1 executes a program. The functions realized by are shown below.

In FIG. 2, the display device 2 and the communication device 14
Are the same hardware as in FIG. 1, and therefore are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof is omitted. 6 is an e-mail transmission / reception means for enabling the exchange of e-mails, and 7 is a received mail for checking whether or not the mail address of the sender of the received mail matches the mail address of a specific person set in advance. Address checking means, 8 is a received mail classifying means for classifying mails by the address checked by the received mail address checking means 7, 9
Is an icon setting means for setting an icon for visually indicating to the user that an e-mail is sent from a specific person to an e-mail sent from a specific person. 10 is a received mail storage for storing received mail. Means, 11 is a drawing means for displaying the received mail stored in a mail storage unit 13 described later on the display device 2, 12 is an icon storage unit in which an icon selected by the icon setting means 9 is stored in advance, and 13 is a received mail. This is a mail storage unit for storing received mails by the storage unit 10. The icon storage unit 12 and the mail storage unit 13 are storage units included in the secondary storage device 5.

In FIG. 1, an e-mail receiving apparatus constituting an e-mail transmitting / receiving apparatus includes an e-mail transmitting / receiving
E-mail receiving means (not shown), received e-mail address checking means 7, and received e-mail classification means 8
, Icon setting means 9, received mail storage means 10
And a drawing unit 11, an icon storage unit 12, a mail storage unit 13, a display device 2, and a communication device 14.
The e-mail transmission device constituting the e-mail transmission / reception device includes an e-mail transmission means (not shown) constituting the e-mail transmission / reception means 6, a drawing means 11, and a display device 2.
And a communication device 14. That is, the display device 2, the drawing unit 11, and the communication device 14 have a configuration common to the electronic mail receiving device and the electronic mail transmitting device.

The operation of the thus-configured e-mail receiving apparatus will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic mail receiving device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 3, first, the electronic mail receiving means of the electronic mail transmitting / receiving means 6 receives an electronic mail (S1). Next, the received mail address checking means 7 checks the mail address of the sender of the received mail (S2). Next, received mail address checking means 7
Determines whether the e-mail address checked in step S2 matches an e-mail address set in advance as a specific person (S3). The received mail classifying means 8 classifies the received mail according to the match or mismatch at step S3. Next, if it is determined in step S3 that the email address matches the mail address set as the specific person, the icon setting means 9 stores the icon set in advance in the icon storage unit 12 for the specific person. And set it as a part of the information of the received mail (S4).
If it is determined in step S3 that the e-mail addresses do not match, nothing is performed (S4). After a series of operations in steps S1 to S4, the received mail storage unit 10 stores the received mail in the mail storage unit 13 (S5).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the e-mail receiving means of the e-mail transmitting / receiving means 6 for receiving an e-mail, and the address of the received e-mail received by the e-mail receiving means are specified. Received mail address checking means 7 for determining whether or not the received mail address is an address of a person, and received mail classifying means for classifying received mail into a specific person and another person based on the result of determination by received mail address checking means 7 8 and the received mail classified into a specific person by the received mail classifying means 8,
An icon setting means 9 for assigning a specific person's received mail icon from icons stored in the icon storage unit 12 in advance, and a received mail with a specific person's received mail icon assigned to the mail storage unit 13 The received mail storage means 10 for storing the received mail can be classified by the icon, so that it is possible to easily determine at a glance from whom the received mail was sent.

Further, a drawing unit 11 for displaying information such as characters and figures on a display device is provided, and the drawing unit 11 displays the electronic mail received by the electronic mail receiving unit on the display device 2. It is possible to easily display the received mail visually.

Further, an e-mail receiving step (S1) for receiving the e-mail, and it is determined whether or not the address of the received e-mail received in the e-mail receiving step is a specific person or group address. A received mail address checking step (S2), and a received mail classifying step (S2) for classifying the received mail into a specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address checking step.
3), the received mail classified into a specific person or group in the received mail classification step is provided with a received mail icon of a specific person or group from among icons stored in the icon storage unit in advance. By having an icon setting step (S4) and a mail storing step (S5) of storing a received mail provided with a received mail icon of a specific person or group in a mail storage unit, the received mail Can be easily identified at a glance as to who sent the received mail.

Further, if a program for executing each of the above steps is recorded on the recording medium 15, the above e-mail receiving method can be easily carried out at any place and at any time.

(Embodiment 2) The configuration of an electronic mail transmitting / receiving apparatus having an electronic mail receiving apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention is the same as that of Embodiment 1 shown in FIGS. Is omitted. This embodiment is different from the first embodiment in the function and operation. In particular,
The functions and operations of the received mail address checking means 7, the received mail classification means 8, and the icon setting means 9 are different.

The operation of the thus configured e-mail receiving apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic mail receiving device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 4, first, the electronic mail receiving means of the electronic mail transmitting / receiving means 6 receives an electronic mail (S11). Next, received mail address checking means 7
Checks the mail address of the sender of the received mail (S2). Next, the received mail address checking means 7 checks that the mail address checked in step S12 is
It is determined whether or not it matches a mail address belonging to a group that has been set in advance (S13). Step S
The received mail classifying means 8 classifies the received mail according to the match or mismatch at 13. If it is determined in step S13 that the mail address matches the mail address belonging to the group, the icon setting means 9 reads the icon set in advance for the group from the icon storage unit 12 and stores the information of the received mail. Set as part of (S
14). If the email addresses do not match, do nothing. After a series of operations in steps S11 to S14,
The received mail storage unit 10 stores the received mail in the mail storage unit 13 (S15).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, received mail is classified into a specific group and another group, and the received mail classified into the specific group is
By assigning a received mail icon of a specific group from the icons stored in the icon storage unit 12 in advance, the received mail can be classified by the group icon. The received mail can be easily identified at a glance.

(Embodiment 3) The configuration of an electronic mail transmitting / receiving apparatus having an electronic mail receiving apparatus according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention is the same as that of Embodiment 1 shown in FIGS. Is omitted. This embodiment is different from the first embodiment in the function and operation. In particular,
The functions and operations of the received mail address checking means 7, the received mail classification means 8, and the icon setting means 9 are different.

The operation of the thus configured electronic mail receiving apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the electronic mail receiving device according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 5, first, the electronic mail receiving means of the electronic mail transmitting / receiving means 6 receives an electronic mail (S21). Next, received mail address checking means 7
Searches for the domain name from the mail address of the sender of the received mail (S22). Next, the received mail classifying means 8 detects a group whose domain name matches the domain name found in step S22 from the groups that have been set in advance, and classifies the received mail into the detected group (S23). In this way, many received mails are classified into groups based on the domain name. Next, the icon setting means 9 sets an icon set in advance for the group as a part of the received mail information in the received mail classified for each group (S24). After the series of operations in steps S21 to S24, the received mail storage unit 10 stores the received mail in the mail storage unit 13 for each group (S2).
5).

As described above, according to this embodiment, a large number of received mails are classified into groups, and the group icons are set in the received mails classified for each group. Since the received mails can be classified for each group by the group icon, it is possible to easily determine at a glance from whom the received mail was sent.

[0041]

As described above, according to the electronic mail receiving device of the first aspect of the present invention, the electronic mail receiving means for receiving the electronic mail and the mail received by the electronic mail receiving means are provided. Received mail address checking means for determining whether or not the address of the received mail is a specific person or group address; A received person classified into a specific person or group by the received mail classifying means, and a specific person or group selected from among icons stored in the icon storage unit in advance. Setting means for assigning a received mail icon for a specific person or a received mail icon for a specific person or group By having the received mail storage means for storing the granted received mail in the mail storage unit, the received mail is classified according to the particular person or group,
An icon is given to the classified received mail, and therefore the received mail is classified by the icon, so that it is possible to easily determine at a glance from whom the received mail was sent. Is obtained.

According to the electronic mail receiving device of the second aspect, in the electronic mail receiving device of the first aspect,
A drawing unit for displaying information such as characters and graphics on a display device, and the drawing unit displays the e-mail received by the e-mail receiving unit on the display device, thereby facilitating the visual display of the received mail. This has the advantageous effect of being able to perform.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, an e-mail receiving step for receiving an e-mail, and the address of the received e-mail received in the e-mail receiving step is a specific person or group. A received mail address check step of determining whether or not the received mail is an address of the received mail; and a received mail classification step of classifying the received mail into a specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address check step. And for the received mail classified into a specific person or group in the received mail classification step,
An icon setting step of assigning a received mail icon for a specific person or group from among icons stored in advance in the icon storage unit, and storing received mail to which a received mail icon for a specific person or group is assigned. The received mail is classified by a specific person or a group,
An icon is given to the classified received mail, and therefore the received mail is classified by the icon, so that it is possible to easily determine at a glance from whom the received mail was sent. Is obtained.

According to the recording medium of the fourth aspect, an e-mail receiving step for receiving an e-mail, and the address of the received e-mail received in the e-mail receiving step is an address of a specific person or group. A received mail address check step of determining whether or not the received mail address, and a received mail classification step of classifying the received mail into a specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address check step, An icon setting step of assigning a received mail icon of a specific person or group to the received mail classified into a specific person or group in the received mail classification step from among icons stored in the icon storage unit in advance; , Given a specific person or group of incoming mail icons A program for executing a mail storing step of storing a received mail in a mail storing unit is recorded, so that the electronic mail receiving method according to claim 3 can be easily implemented at any place and at any time. The advantageous effect that it can be obtained is obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an apparatus block diagram showing an electronic mail transmitting / receiving apparatus having an electronic mail receiving apparatus according to Embodiments 1 to 3 of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram showing an electronic mail transmitting / receiving apparatus having the electronic mail receiving apparatuses according to the first to third embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of the electronic mail receiving device according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of the electronic mail receiving device according to the second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation of the electronic mail receiving device according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Central processing unit 2 Display device 3 Input device 4 Main storage device 5 Secondary storage device 6 E-mail transmission / reception means 7 Received mail address check means 8 Received mail classification means 9 Icon setting means 10 Received mail storage means 11 Drawing means 12 Icon storage Unit 13 mail storage unit 14 communication device 15 recording medium

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An electronic mail receiving means for receiving an electronic mail, and a receiving means for judging whether or not an address of a received mail received by the electronic mail receiving means is an address of a specific person or a group. Mail address checking means, received mail classifying means for classifying the received mail into the specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address checking means, An icon setting means for assigning, to the received mail classified into the specific person or group, an icon for the received mail of the specific person or group from among icons stored in an icon storage unit in advance; The received mail with the received mail icon for the person or group of the E-mail receiving apparatus characterized by having a received mail storage means for. 2. A drawing device for displaying information such as characters and graphics on a display device, wherein the drawing device displays the e-mail received by the e-mail receiving device on the display device. Item 2. The electronic mail receiving device according to item 1. 3. An e-mail receiving step for receiving an e-mail, and a receiving step of determining whether an address of the received e-mail received in the e-mail receiving step is an address of a specific person or a group. A mail address check step, a received mail classification step of classifying the received mail into the specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address check step, and the received mail classification step. An icon setting step of, for the received mail classified into the specific person or group, giving an icon for the received mail of the specific person or group from among icons stored in advance in an icon storage unit; Icon for incoming mail of person or group E-mail receiving method characterized by having a mail storage storing a signal to the email storage unit. 4. An e-mail receiving step for receiving an e-mail, and a receiving step of determining whether an address of the received e-mail received in the e-mail receiving step is an address of a specific person or a group. A mail address check step, a received mail classification step of classifying the received mail into the specific person or group and another person or group based on the determination result in the received mail address check step, and the received mail classification step. An icon setting step of, for the received mail classified into the specific person or group, giving an icon for the received mail of the specific person or group from among icons stored in advance in an icon storage unit; Icon for incoming mail of person or group Recording medium characterized by recording a program for executing the mail storage step of storing the signal to the email storage unit.