JP2002278884A - System for notifying e-mail address change - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an e-mail address change notification system that surely notifies only opposite parties a user wants to notify of a new mail address and also prevents opposite parties the user does not want to notify from being notified of the new mail address when the user changes his/her own e-mail addresses. SOLUTION: A server 20 has a homepage on which the old e-mail address of a first terminal (user terminal, a mail address changing person) 10 is publicly released and also, a new e-mail address is prevented from being publicly released, notifies the first terminal to the effect that a second terminal (user terminal, user who wants to obtain the new address of the first terminal) 40 has requested to obtain the new address when the second terminal 40 accessing the homepage requests to obtain the new address, and notifies the second terminal of the results of approval/disapproval decision in accordance with the approval/disapproval decision to the request to obtain the new address by the first terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail address change notification system, and in particular, when a user's own electronic mail address is changed, the new address is transmitted to the person who wants to transmit the new electronic mail address without fail. The present invention relates to an electronic mail address change notification system in which a new address is not transmitted to a partner who does not want to transmit the new address.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A user who exchanges e-mails with a personal computer or the like is given a unique e-mail address (hereinafter, referred to as an e-mail address) from a provider providing an e-mail service. However, this email address is not immutable,
Or it may be changed by the provider's convenience.
Conventionally, when there is a change in the mail address of the user, it is common to individually send a mail directly to the person who wants to notify the new address. However, with this method alone, there is a disadvantage that when there is a leak in the communicating party, there is no means for sending a mail from the party who has not been notified of the new address.

As a first example of this inconvenience countermeasure, there is a method of performing "setting to transfer" a mail which has arrived at an old address to a new address. As a second example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open
There is a system for notifying an e-mail address described in JP-A-074931. This system publishes both an old address and a new address on a homepage on a WWW server in order to notify the address change.

[0004]

However, in the first example, since the "transfer setting" must be performed on the old mail server, the "transfer setting" is not always permitted. Further, even if the "forwarding setting" is made, the mail sent to the old address and from the other party whose reception is to be refused at the new address must be continuously received. In the second example, since both the new and old addresses are disclosed, the user who wants to be notified of the new address cannot be selected, and the new address is disclosed to the party who does not want to be notified of the new address. . That is, in both the first and second conventional examples, the new address is transmitted to only the partner who wants to transmit the new address, and the new address is not transmitted to the partner who does not want to transmit the new address.
It is impossible.

[0005] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to ensure that, when there is a change in the user's own e-mail address, the new mail address is conveyed to only those who want to convey it, and that the new address is not conveyed to those who do not want to convey. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic mail address change notification system.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a first terminal capable of transmitting a new address before and after a change and an old address in an e-mail address given to the first terminal. A terminal, a server for registering and managing the new and old e-mail addresses transmitted from the first terminal, and a second terminal for transmitting the e-mail address given to the second terminal after accessing the server. , The first
And a network interconnecting the server and the second terminal. The server publishes the old e-mail address of the first terminal and keeps the new e-mail address private on the network. If the second terminal accessing the homepage desires to obtain a new address of the first terminal, the second terminal requests the first terminal from the second terminal. And the second terminal is notified of the result of the permission / refusal determination in accordance with the permission / rejection determination of the request for acquisition in the first terminal.

[0007] In this way, the administrator of the first terminal can determine whether or not to notify the second terminal of a new e-mail address notification. In this case, it is possible to ensure that the new mail address is transmitted only to the person who wants to transmit the message, and that the new address is not transmitted to the person who does not want to transmit the mail address.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the illustrated embodiment. First, an outline of the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 1, a user whose mail address has been changed (mail address changer) accesses the WWW server 20 from his / her "first terminal" user terminal 10 via the "network" Internet and receives An old address, a new address and the like are input, and the data is registered in the database 30. On the Web homepage on the WWW server, the "old address only" of the person who changed the mail address is disclosed. The general user can see the old address published on the homepage of the WWW server 30 from his / her own user terminal 40 as the “second terminal” and know that the address has been changed.

[0009] A general user who wishes to obtain a new address of a mail address changer (a person who wishes to obtain a new mail address)
Enters his "email address" and a message to request a new address on the Web. The WWW server notifies the e-mail address changer of the new address by e-mail to the new e-mail address requester's address and message, and informs the e-mail address changer of the new e-mail address requester's notification of the new address. The user is requested to input a determination as to whether or not to permit (permission / rejection determination). The e-mail address changer shall indicate whether to accept the new address
Enter with b. If the WWW server receives either the permission or rejection, it will notify the person who wants to obtain the new e-mail address if he / she wants to obtain the new address, and if he / she refuses to obtain it, he / she wants to reject the request. Notify others.

(2) First Embodiment Referring to FIG. 1, a first embodiment of the "e-mail address change notification system" of the present invention is a
, A WWW server 20, a database 30, a user terminal 40, and the Internet 10 for interconnecting them.
0. The user terminal 10 and the user terminal 40 are information processing devices such as personal computers and have a function of connecting to the Internet 100,
Information can be transmitted to and received from the server 20. Also,
The WWW server 20 has a function of connecting to the Internet 100, and can transmit / receive specific information to / from a terminal connected to the Internet. Further, the user can access the database 30 to read and write information. The database 30 can store information generated by the WWW server 20.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the system configuration diagram of FIG. 1 and the flowchart of FIG. First, the user whose e-mail address has been changed (e-mail address changer) accesses, via the user terminal 10 and the Internet 100, a home page for public registration of e-mail address change of the WWW server 20 (step A1 in FIG. 2). The WWW server 20 sends an input form NF (see FIG. 3A) for registering the disclosure of the change of the mail address to the user terminal 10 (step A).
2). The e-mail address changer sends out the new / old e-mail address, the registration fee payment method, etc. in accordance with this form NF (step A3), and discloses only the old e-mail address on the WWW server 20 home page for e-mail address change publication (step A3). (See Fig. 3 (B), public website KP)
(Step A4). The old address and the new address are stored in the database 30.

A general user sets a public home page KP for changing the mail address of the WWW server 20 on the user terminal 40.
(Step A)
5). If there is an old address on which the general user desires to obtain a new address on the public homepage KP, the general user inputs the new address obtaining request input form SF sent from the WWW server 20 (see FIG. 4A). ) (Step A6), the old address of the person who changed the mail address, the own address (the address of the person who wants to obtain a new address)
The name, company name, and message (such as the reason for requesting a new address) are input from the user terminal 40 and transmitted to the WWW server 20 (step A7).

The WWW server 20 sends the address, name, message, and the like of the new address acquirer by e-mail to the e-mail address changer, and whether or not to permit the acquirer to be notified of the new address (permission or rejection). Is determined, and a request for the registration is made (step A8). The e-mail address changer accesses the homepage for registration of e-mail address notification permission / prohibition of the WWW server 20 from the user terminal 10 and determines whether or not the requesting person is requested to obtain a new address by entering a new address obtaining permission / rejection input form YN (see FIG. 4
(See (B)) (step A9). The WWW server 20 notifies the new address acquisition requester of the new address by e-mail in accordance with the e-mail address acquisition permission / denial registration, and notifies the new address by e-mail when the "permission" is registered. Notifies the user that he / she will refuse the request by email (step A10). By doing so, it is possible to transmit the new address without omission only to the person who wants to transmit the new mail address, based on the judgment of the mail address changer.

(2) Second Embodiment FIG. 5 is a system configuration diagram of the present embodiment. The mail server 21 of the old mail address of the address changer is added to the configuration of FIG.
Is added. This embodiment adds the following functions to the functions of the first embodiment. That is, the mail server 21 manages the old address of the mail address changer. For the mail of the old address that arrived at this mail server 21, "W
The user accesses the homepage KP (see FIG. 3B) for changing the e-mail address of the WW server 20, and receives a message stating that he / she wants to perform a procedure for obtaining a new address (see FIG. 4A). , And have a function to reply to the sender of the mail. In this way, all users who have sent e-mails to the old e-mail address can know that the method of obtaining the new address has been disclosed, and can inform all users of the method of obtaining the new address without omission. It becomes possible.

The selection of whether or not to make this setting in the mail server 21 is made simultaneously with the registration of the mail address in step A3 in FIG. 2, and the request fee to the administrator of the mail server 21 is made at the same time as the registration fee of this system. The payment is made by the user to the administrator of the present system by the method specified in step A3 of FIG. Next, the administrator of the present system pays to the administrator of the mail server 21 of the old address. Then, for the mail addressed to the old mail address, a request is made to add a function of returning a message that the new mail address is notified by the present system. However, in the case of the present embodiment, the effect of the third invention described later is lost.

(3) Third Embodiment FIG. 6 is a system configuration diagram of this embodiment. The user who registers the e-mail address disclosure, from the user terminal 10A,
Access to the homepage TP (see FIG. 7) for public registration of the e-mail address of the WWW server 20A and personal identification information (self-introduction information) such as name, residence (Tokyo, etc.), hobbies, etc. Send your e-mail address and registration fee payment method. In the first and second embodiments,
Individuals could be uniquely identified (the only person in the world) using only the old email address. However, since there is another person with the same name, the individual cannot be uniquely identified even if only the name is disclosed.
Therefore, it is necessary for the e-mail address changer to input personal information for uniquely identifying an individual, who has determined that the e-mail address can be disclosed. For this purpose, the name and other personal information are disclosed on a homepage TP for publicizing the mail address of the WWW server 20A.

The subsequent procedure is the same as in the first and second embodiments.
The user can access the WW server 20A and freely browse the homepage TP for publicizing the e-mail address. If there is a user who wants to obtain the address, an input form SF for obtaining the address (FIG. 4A) ) Is sent in accordance with), and when the permission to obtain is registered by the mail address changer, the address is notified. In this way, even if the common name and old address alone cannot identify the other party with certainty,
Personal information such as self-introduction makes it possible to identify the partner of the old address with certainty.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained. The first effect is that the person who changes the mail address can reliably notify only the necessary user of the new mail address after the change. The reason is that, even if the notification of the notification of the address after the change is omitted, the request for obtaining the new address is made according to the present invention, triggered by an error in the mail sent to the old address by the user of the missing address. This ensures that the person to whom the new address should be communicated can be obtained.

The second effect is that it is possible to cut off future mail contact with a partner who does not want to exchange mail with a new address. The reason is that even if a request for obtaining a new address is received, the acquisition of a new address can be refused. Since there is no need to transfer mail from the old address to the new address, mail addressed to the old address does not reach the new address. A third effect is that it is not necessary to set the mail server of the old address or the mail server of the new mail address. The transfer of mail from the old mail server to the new mail server is not always performed. However, according to the present invention, it is possible to know the new address based on the old address information when the mail address is changed, regardless of the mail server provider.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a view showing a screen according to the first embodiment, in which (A) shows an input form of a person who changes a mail address;
(B) is a figure which shows the public homepage of a mail address changer.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing another screen in the first embodiment, in which (A) is a new address acquisition request input form,
(B) is an input form for permitting or rejecting a new address acquisition request.

FIG. 5 is a system configuration diagram of a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a system configuration diagram of a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a public homepage of a person who has changed the mail address according to the third embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10, 10A ... user terminal 20, 20A ... WWW server 21 ... mail server 30 ... database 40, 40A ... another user terminal

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A first terminal capable of transmitting a new address before and after a change and an old address in an e-mail address assigned to the first terminal, and a new and old e-mail transmitted from the first terminal A server for registering and managing addresses; a second terminal for transmitting an e-mail address given to the second terminal after accessing the server; and a first terminal, a server, and a second terminal. A network for connecting to each other, wherein the server has, on the network, a home page on which the old e-mail address of the first terminal is made public and the new e-mail address is kept private, and the home page is accessed. When the second terminal that has performed the request desires to obtain the new address of the first terminal, the second terminal notifies the first terminal that the request has been obtained from the second terminal. An e-mail address change notification system for notifying a second terminal of a result of the permission / non-permission judgment in accordance with a permission / non-permission judgment of the first terminal. 2. The second terminal according to claim 1, wherein the new server managing the new e-mail address and the old server managing the old e-mail address are mutually independent servers. 2. The electronic mail address change notification system according to claim 1, wherein when the old electronic mail address is accessed to the old server, the access is notified to the new server. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein a name of an administrator of the first terminal is disclosed in addition to an old e-mail address of the first terminal on the homepage. E-mail address change notification system. 4. When the name of an administrator of the first terminal is a name, personal information for identifying the administrator is
4. The information is disclosed on the homepage.
Email change notification system described in. 5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the network is the Internet.
E-mail address change notification system. 6. A first terminal capable of transmitting a new address before and after a change and an old address in an e-mail address assigned to the first terminal, and a new and old e-mail transmitted from the first terminal A server for registering and managing addresses; a second terminal for transmitting an e-mail address given to the second terminal after accessing the server; and a first terminal, a server, and a second terminal. A program applied to a computer configuring an electronic mail address change notification system including a network connected to each other, wherein the server publishes an old electronic mail address of a first terminal on a network, Processing to make the new e-mail address private, and the second terminal accessing the home page to receive the new address of the first terminal. If it is desired to obtain the request, the second terminal notifies the first terminal that the request has been obtained, and the first terminal determines whether or not the request has been granted. And processing for notifying the second terminal of the result of the permission / refusal determination.