JP2001117831A - Mail managing device and managing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To list and display mail sent from a specific person and an answer including transmit mail corresponding to the mail. SOLUTION: Transmit mail is generated by a mail generation part (S1) and stores in a transmit mail storage part in a transmission and reception management part (S2). A mail server is accessed (S3), the mail stored in the transmit mail storage part is sent (S4) and moved to a read mail storage part (S5), and when there is receive mail, it is stored in a receive mail storage part (S6). A retrieval mail address for retrieving mail to a specific mail address or mail from the specific mail address is set (S7). Mail sent to the set retrieval mail address is retrieved and extracted from a transmitted mail storage part (S8). Mail sent from the set retrieval mail address is retrieved and extracted from a received mail storage part (S9). Extracted mail is sorted by the date (S10) and listed and displayed (S11).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is applied to an information processing terminal, a small portable terminal and the like capable of transmitting and receiving an electronic mail, and is transmitted to a specific person or transmitted from a specific person. The present invention relates to an electronic mail management apparatus and a management method capable of displaying and managing received mails in a list so as to be easily understood.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the spread of communication and communication using e-mails, it has become an issue to efficiently manage transmitted and received e-mails. On the other hand, when browsing e-mail sent from a specific person, it is possible to obtain the desired e-mail by specifying the person's e-mail address as a search condition and specifying that person's e-mail address. Traditionally considered. For example, JP-A-6-2
If the technique described in Japanese Patent No. 50950 is used, a mail can be automatically sorted and classified when a mail is received by designating a search condition and a mailbox to which the mail is to be sorted in advance. In other words, if you specify the email address of a specific person as a sender as a search condition,
The mail sent from the person can be classified into one mailbox.

[0003]

However, according to the above-mentioned prior art, if the received mail is a reply to the mail transmitted by the user and the user tries to view the original transmitted mail, the transmitted mail is stored. There was no other way but to search from the mailbox (outbox) that was running. That is, it was difficult to understand the exchange of mail with a specific person. The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and specifically, includes not only an e-mail transmitted from a specific person but also an e-mail including a transmitted e-mail corresponding to the e-mail. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mail management device and a management method capable of displaying a list of responses in an easy-to-understand manner.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention relates to a mail management apparatus for managing e-mails transmitted and distributed via a network,
Mail sending / receiving means for sending / receiving mail, sending / receiving mail managing means for managing mail sent / received by the mail sending / receiving means, search mail address setting means for setting a specific mail address as a search condition, and search mail address setting means Specific mail extracting means for extracting mail sent from the mail address set in and mail sent to the set mail address from mail managed by the sent / received mail management means;
An extracted mail list displaying means for displaying a list of the mails extracted by the specific mail extracting means.

Further, the present invention is characterized in that the extracted mail list display means further includes a display control means for performing sorting and display in chronological order. Further, the present invention is a mail management device for managing e-mails transmitted and distributed via a network,
Identifier providing means for providing an identifier for identifying the mail to be transmitted to the mail, mail transmitting means for transmitting a mail including an identifier provided by the identifier providing means, and the identifier A specific identifier-attached mail extracting unit for extracting a mail corresponding to a specific identifier assigned by the assigning unit, and an extracted mail list for displaying a list of mails to which the specific identifier extracted by the specific identifier-attached mail extracting unit is attached Display means.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. (Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a first embodiment of the electronic mail management device of the present invention. In FIG. 1, an e-mail management device 1 is connected to a network or the like, and sends and receives mail. A mail sending / receiving unit 2, a mail creating unit 3 for creating mail to be sent, and a mail sending / receiving unit 2.
A sent / received mail management unit 4 for managing the mail sent / received in the above, a search mail address setting unit 5 for setting a specific mail address as a search condition, a mail sent to the mail address set in the search mail address setting unit 5, The specific mail extraction unit 6 extracts the mail transmitted from the mail address set by the search mail address setting unit 5 from the mail managed by the transmission / reception mail management unit 4, and the specific mail extraction unit 6 extracts the mail. A display control unit 7 for controlling the display so as to display a list of e-mails; a display unit 8 including an LCD for displaying information controlled by the display control unit 7; an input unit 9 including a keyboard and a mouse; And a clock unit 1 for counting the date received
0, and a CPU (not shown) that controls the above-described units, a ROM that stores a program that controls the above-described units, a RAM that stores a work area required to execute the programs, and the like. It is configured.

[0007] The transmission / reception mail management unit 4 includes the mail creation unit 3
An outgoing mail storage unit 41 for storing the mail created in
The mail stored in the outgoing mail storage unit 41 is transmitted by the mail transmission / reception unit 2, and the transmitted mail storage unit 42 stores the transmitted mail, and the received mail storage unit 43 stores the received mail received by the mail transmission / reception unit 2. Etc.,
The created, sent, and received mails are sorted and stored and managed by the created, sent, and received dates, respectively. That is, when executing the function of mail transmission / reception, the transmission / reception mail management unit 4 transmits the mail stored in the transmission mail storage unit 41,
The mail whose transmission has been completed is transferred from the transmitted mail storage unit 41 to the transmitted mail storage unit 42. The received mail is stored in the received mail storage unit 43.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the electronic mail management apparatus according to the present embodiment. The operation of each unit will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, a mail to be transmitted is created by the mail creating unit 3 (step S1). The created mail is sent and received by the transmission / reception management unit 4
(Step S)
2). Next, an e-mail transmission / reception function is executed to transmit the created e-mail and confirm the newly received e-mail. At this time, specifically, the mail server is accessed (step S
3) If the mail is stored in the outgoing mail storage unit 41, the stored mail is transmitted (step S4), and the transmitted mail is moved from the outgoing mail storage unit 41 to the transmitted mail storage unit 42 (step S4). S5) If there is a received mail, the received mail is stored in the received mail storage unit 43 (Step S6). Here, it is assumed that the mails stored in the transmitted mail storage unit 42 and the received mail storage unit 43 remain unless the user deletes them by a designated operation.

Next, a search mail address is set to search for a mail for a specific mail address or a mail from a specific mail address (step S).
7). Then, the mail transmitted to the set search mail address is searched and extracted from the transmitted mail storage unit 42 (step S8). Further, the mail transmitted from the set search mail address is searched and extracted from the received mail storage unit 43 (step S9). The mails thus extracted are sorted by date information (step S10), and a list is displayed (step S11).

FIG. 3 shows a mail extracted by the electronic mail management apparatus according to the present embodiment and a list display example thereof. FIG. 3A shows an example of a mail stored in the transmitted mail storage unit, and FIG. 3B shows an example of a mail stored in the received mail storage unit. FIG. 3C shows the state of “yama” in the state of FIGS. 3A and 3B.
da ＠ ○○. co. jp ”is set as the search mail address, and“ yamada @ XX. co. j
mail sent to "p" and "yamada @ ○
○. co. jp ”is extracted,
This shows the result sorted in order of date. As can be seen from this figure, the e-mail sent to a specific e-mail address and the e-mail sent from a specific e-mail address are displayed in a list. An apparatus can be provided.

(Embodiment 2) FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic mail management apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
In this figure, an e-mail management device 20 is provided with an identifier assigning unit 21 for identifying an e-mail to be transmitted, and an assigned identifier identifying unit 22 for identifying an assigned identifier in place of the search e-mail address setting unit 5. 1 except that the specific-identifier-attached mail extracting unit 23 that extracts a mail having the identifier specified by the assigned identifier specifying unit 22 from the received mail instead of the received mail is replaced with each other. E-mail management device 1 described in
Is the same as The identifier assigning unit 21 sets, for example, the place of the title of the mail in the form of [ID: ************], and in the part of *, "19999073013"
Date and time information is set, such as 30 ″.

For example, in the case of the transmitted mail in FIG. 3, it is assumed that the transmission date and the mail creation date are the same, and an identifier is given as follows. “△△ Project launch information [ID: 199908]
101015]] “Notice of A meeting schedule change [ID: 19990812]
1520] "RE: ○ × Sample product arrangement [ID: 199
908111330] "△△ Project launch (additional items) [ID: 199
908130905] "Here, other than the third title, date information on creation (sending) of the mail is given as an identification number, and the third title is creation (sending) of the original sent mail. Date information is provided as an identification signal. That is, when replying to the transmitted mail, the identifier assigned by the identifier assigning unit 21 is transmitted without being changed.

When the user wants to confirm the reply to the transmitted mail, the user touches the transmitted mail or inputs an identifier from the input unit, and specifies the identifier given to the transmitted mail. From the completed mail storage unit 42 and the received mail storage unit 43, a mail to which the specified identifier is assigned is searched, and a list of the extracted mails is displayed. The processing procedure for this part is
Since it is basically the same as the flowchart shown in FIG. 2, the description will be omitted. With the above contents, the reply contents to the mail transmitted to a plurality of persons can be displayed in a list together with the transmitted mail so as to be clearly understood.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention, a mail management apparatus for managing e-mails transmitted and distributed via a network manages e-mails transmitted and received by e-mail transmission / reception means. Transmission / reception mail management means, search mail address means for setting a specific mail address as a search condition, mail sent from the mail address set by the search mail address setting means, and mail set by the search mail address setting means A specific mail extracting means for extracting a mail transmitted to the address from mail managed by the transmitted / received mail managing means, and an extracted mail list displaying means for displaying a list of the mails extracted by the specific mail extracting means By having a That e-mail mail management system that can be easily check the exchange of can be provided.

Further, according to the present invention, the extracted mail list display means further includes a display control means for performing sorting and display in chronological order, so that exchange of associated mails is sorted in chronological order. ,
A mail management device that can be easily checked can be provided. Further, according to the present invention, in a mail management method for managing e-mails transmitted and distributed via a network, a sent / received mail management step for managing sent / received mails, and a specific mail address set as a search condition Search email address setting step, and extract specific mail to extract the mail sent from the set mail address and the mail sent to the set mail address from the mail managed in the sent / received mail management step By including the step and an extracted mail list display step of displaying a list of extracted mails, it is possible to provide a mail management method capable of easily confirming exchange of associated mails.

According to the present invention, in a mail management apparatus for managing electronic mail transmitted and distributed via a network, an identifier assigning means for assigning an identifier for identifying the mail to be transmitted to the mail to be transmitted. And a mail transmitting means for transmitting a mail including the one to which the identifier is provided by the identifier providing means, and extracting a mail corresponding to the specific identifier from the identifiers provided by the identifier providing means from the transmitted / received mail. By providing a specific identifier-attached e-mail extracting unit and an extracted e-mail list display unit for displaying a list of e-mails to which a specific identifier extracted by the specific identifier-attached e-mail extracting unit is added, the transmission is particularly performed to a plurality of persons. It is possible to provide a mail management device that can easily confirm the association between a mail and its reply mail.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of an electronic mail management device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure of the e-mail management device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing mails extracted by the electronic mail management device according to the first embodiment of the present invention and a list display example thereof.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a second embodiment of the electronic mail management device of the present invention.

[Description of Signs] 1,20: E-mail management device, 2: Email transmission / reception unit,
3 ... Email creation unit, 4 ... Transmission / reception mail management unit, 5 ... Search mail address setting unit, 6 ... Specific mail extraction unit, 7 ... Display control unit, 8 ... Display unit, 9 ... Input unit, 10 ... Clock unit, 2
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... identifier provision part, 22 ... provision identifier provision part, 23 ... specific identifier provision mail extraction part, 41 ... transmission mail storage part
42: sent mail storage unit; 43: received mail storage unit.

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A mail management device for managing e-mail transmitted and distributed via a network, comprising: a mail transmission / reception unit for transmitting / receiving mail; and a transmission / reception for managing mail transmitted / received by the mail transmission / reception unit. Mail management means; search mail address setting means for setting a specific mail address as a search condition; mail transmitted from the mail address set by the search mail address setting means and transmission to the set mail address Specific mail extracting means for extracting the extracted mail from the mails managed by the transmitted / received mail managing means, and extracted mail list displaying means for displaying a list of the mails extracted by the specific mail extracting means. A mail management device characterized by the above-mentioned. 2. The mail management device according to claim 1, wherein the extracted mail list display means further includes a display control means for performing display by sorting in chronological order. 3. A management method for managing electronic mail transmitted and distributed via a network, comprising: a mail transmitting / receiving step for transmitting / receiving mail; and a transmitted / received mail for managing mail transmitted / received in the mail transmitting / receiving step. A management step; a search mail address setting step of setting a specific mail address as a search condition; and a mail sent from the mail address set in the search mail address setting step and a mail sent to the set mail address. From the mail managed in the sending and receiving mail management step,
A mail management method, comprising: a specific mail extracting step to be extracted; and an extracted mail list displaying step of displaying a list of the mails extracted in the specific mail extracting step. 4. A mail management apparatus for managing electronic mail transmitted and distributed via a network, comprising: a mail transmitting / receiving means for transmitting / receiving mail; and a transmitting / receiving means for managing mail transmitted / received by said mail transmitting / receiving means. Mail managing means, an identifier assigning means for assigning an identifier for identifying the mail to be sent, and extracting a mail assigned with a specific identifier from the mails managed by the sent / received mail managing means. An e-mail management apparatus comprising: a specific identifier-attached mail extracting unit that performs the extraction; and an extracted mail list display unit that displays a list of the mails extracted by the specific identifier-attached mail extracting unit.