JP3637840B2 - E-mail processing device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an electronic mail processing apparatus, and more particularly, to an electronic mail processing apparatus that searches / displays an undelivered destination of an undelivered electronic mail.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Prior art will be described with reference to the drawings.
[0003]
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an electronic mail processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the prior art.
[0004]
The e-mail processing apparatus shown in FIG. 4 includes a transmitting unit 41 that transmits an e-mail to the outside and a receiving unit 42 that receives an e-mail from the outside.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The problem with the prior art is that when a user tries to send a single e-mail, it does not rely on the user's memory as to whether any of the e-mail destinations has been undelivered in the past. There is a risk of resending to a non-delivery destination.
[0006]
The reason is that there is no means for searching / displaying the non-delivery destination of the undelivered e-mail.
[0007]
An object of the present invention is to eliminate the reliance on the user's memory as to whether or not there has been a non-delivery in the past when the user tried to send one e-mail. It is to prevent re-sending to undelivered destinations.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The first e-mail processing apparatus of the present invention extracts a non-delivery destination that has been non-delivery from an e-mail notifying of non-delivery, and performs non-delivery destination generation means for registration, and extraction by the non-delivery destination generation means A non-delivery destination storage means for storing the non-delivery destination; a non-delivery destination search means for searching for a non-delivery destination from an e-mail destination transmitted with reference to the non-delivery destination storage means; Display means for displaying the non-delivery destination detected by the search means, and when a new destination that does not reach the non-delivery destination stored in the non-delivery destination storage means is known, the new destination is added to the non-delivery destination. And operating means for writing together,
When the non-delivery destination search means detects a non-delivery destination as the destination of the e-mail to be sent, if the non-delivery destination of the non-delivery destination storage means has the designation of the new destination, the non-delivery destination search means The non-delivery destination is replaced with the new destination and transmitted .
[0009]
According to a second electronic mail processing apparatus of the present invention, in the first invention, the second electronic mail processing apparatus includes a non-delivery destination search means for detecting a destination that has not reached in the past from the destination of the electronic mail to be transmitted and notifying the user.
[0010]
According to a third electronic mail processing device of the present invention, in the first invention, when the received electronic mail is a non-delivery notification, the non-delivery notification destination is automatically extracted from the non-delivery notification e-mail to A non-delivery destination generating means for storing the destination address storage means.
[0011]
According to a fourth electronic mail processing apparatus of the present invention, in the first invention, a non-delivery destination is displayed, a non-delivery destination is added, and a non-delivery is received from the user with respect to the non-delivery destination stored in the non-delivery destination storage means. An operation unit that enables an address deletion operation is provided.
[0014]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Next, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
[0015]
Referring to FIG. 1, an e-mail processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a sending unit 11 for sending an e-mail to the outside, a receiving unit 12 for receiving an e-mail from outside, and an e-mail to be sent from now on. A non-delivery destination search means 13 for searching for a destination that may be undelivered by checking the destination of the e-mail, a non-delivery destination storage means 14 for storing the non-delivery destination of the undelivered e-mail, The undelivered address is searched from the reached e-mail and the undelivered address is registered in the undelivered address storage means 14 and the undelivered address of the undelivered e-mail is displayed. The display unit 16 and the operation unit 17 for operating the contents of the non-delivery destination storage unit 14 from the user are configured.
[0016]
The non-delivery destination generation means 15 generates a non-delivery destination based on the undelivered electronic mail. Therefore, the non-delivery destination can be generated when it is determined that the e-mail has not been delivered.
[0017]
The non-delivery destination storage means 14 stores the non-delivery destination of undelivered electronic mail. Therefore, it can be stored when the non-delivery destination is generated by the non-delivery destination generation means 15, and can be read when the non-delivery destination is searched.
[0018]
The non-delivery address searching means 13 searches for an undeliverable address that may be undeliverable from the e-mail address to be transmitted. For this reason, when trying to send a single e-mail, the non-delivery address storage means 14 is referred to search for whether there has been a non-delivery in the past among the e-mail addresses. Can do.
[0019]
The display means 16 displays the undelivered address of the undelivered e-mail. For this reason, it is possible to display whether or not there has been a non-delivery in the past in the destination of the e-mail when trying to send a certain e-mail.
[0020]
The operation unit 17 operates the non-delivery destination stored in the non-delivery destination storage unit 14. Therefore, it is possible to refer to the stored contents.
[0021]
Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 and the flowcharts of FIGS. In this description, exceptional processing such as error processing is omitted.
[0022]
When a certain e-mail (hereinafter referred to as e-mail A) is transmitted to the outside, the non-delivery address searching means 13 extracts all addresses designated by the e-mail A (step S1). Next, the non-delivery destination search means 13 reads all non-delivery destinations stored in the non-delivery destination storage means 14 (step S2). Further, the non-delivery address search means 13 compares the address of the e-mail E with the non-delivery address read from the non-delivery address storage means 14 in order from the first address if it has a plurality of addresses (step S3). In this comparison, if all the destinations of the e-mail A are not registered in the non-delivery destination storage means 14, the process goes to (step S6) to perform e-mail transmission processing.
[0023]
In the comparison of (Step S3), when the destination with the e-mail A matches the destination of the undelivered destination, the destination of the e-mail E is the destination that has never reached in the past. Therefore, the non-delivery destination search means 13 notifies the display means 16 of the destination that matches the non-delivery destination as the destination of the e-mail (step S4). When receiving the notification of the non-delivery address among the e-mail addresses, the display unit 16 displays the notified non-delivery target address to the user (step S5). As a result, the user can see the undelivered destination on the display means 16 and remove the destination from the e-mail E or change the destination.
[0024]
If there is no match between the destination of the e-mail A and the non-delivery destination, the destination designated by the e-mail A is a destination that has never been reached in the past. Therefore, the undelivered address search means 13 delivers the e-mail back to the transmission means 11 and notifies the transmission (step S6). Upon receiving the notification of the transmission of the e-mail A, the transmission unit 11 transmits the e-mail A to the outside (step S7).
[0025]
Next, the reception means 12 receives a certain electronic mail (hereinafter referred to as an electronic mail B) from the outside (step S8). When the receiving unit 12 receives the e-mail B, the receiving unit 12 delivers the e-mail B to the non-delivery destination generating unit 15 (step S9). The non-delivery address generation means 15 that has received the e-mail B checks whether it is a non-delivery notification mail that has not been reached among e-mails that have already been sent by the e-mail B (step S10). If it is not a non-delivery notification mail in this check, the process is terminated for normal mail.
[0026]
At this time, if the e-mail B is a non-delivery notification e-mail, the non-delivery destination generation means 15 extracts all non-delivery destinations from the e-mail B (step S11). Next, the non-delivery destination generation unit 15 writes all non-delivery destinations detected from the e-mail B in the non-delivery destination storage unit 14 (step S12), and ends the process. Although it is rare in terms of timing, a non-delivery destination that has already been stored in the non-delivery destination storage means 14 may be registered again, so a duplicate check is performed, and registration is performed if it has already been registered. Do not do.
[0027]
Further, the user refers to the entire non-delivery destination stored in the non-delivery destination storage means 14 using the operation means 17 or transmits an e-mail having the address corresponding to the stored non-delivery destination in the future. If it is found that there is no address, it can be deleted, or a new address registered as a non-delivery address can be registered.
[0028]
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
[0029]
In the second embodiment, when a user refers to a non-delivery destination registered in the non-delivery destination storage means 17 by the operation means 17, it seems that a certain non-delivery destination is an old destination that is not currently used. In such a case, if a new destination that replaces the destination is known, the destination can be written together with the old destination.
[0030]
As in the first embodiment, when sending one e-mail (hereinafter referred to as e-mail A) to the outside, the non-delivery address searching means 13 searches for all the addresses designated by the e-mail A. Perform extraction. Next, the non-delivery destination search unit 13 reads all non-delivery destinations stored in the non-delivery destination storage unit 14. Next, the non-delivery destination search means 13 compares the destination of the e-mail A with the non-delivery destination read from the non-delivery destination storage means 14 in order from the first destination if there are a plurality of destinations.
[0031]
At this time, if a destination specified in the e-mail A matches the destination of the non-delivery destination, the e-mail destination is an address that has not been reached in the past. The destination address searching means 13 confirms whether the designation of a new destination that replaces the non-delivery destination is defined in the non-delivery address storage means 14. If a new destination is specified, the new destination is replaced with a destination that may be undelivered by the e-mail. If all the non-delivery destinations in the e-mail A can be replaced with the respective new addresses, the e-mail E is transmitted without notifying the non-delivery destination to the display means 16.
[0032]
Further, for each non-delivery destination in the non-delivery destination storage means 14, the number of times the non-delivery destination was used when sending an e-mail, the date and time of the last use, and the new destination, if specified, are used. It is also possible to give history information such as the number of times of addressing to the non-delivery destination retrieval means.
[0033]
【The invention's effect】
The first effect is to search for and display a non-delivery destination when a user tries to send a single e-mail and there is a non-delivery destination in the past. It is in. As a result, when a user tries to send a single e-mail, there is no need to rely on the user's memory as to whether any of the e-mail recipients has been unreachable in the past. Can be prevented from being retransmitted to the destination.
[0034]
The reason is that the undelivered address of the undelivered e-mail is automatically extracted and stored, and when the user tries to send one e-mail, the unreachable address is searched and displayed. Because it can be done.
[0035]
The second effect is that a new address that can be sent and replaced with the undelivered address collected and stored in the past from the user can be specified. Yes, if a new destination corresponding to the non-delivery destination is designated, transmission is automatically performed by replacing the new destination, so that it is not necessary to receive an e-mail for non-delivery notification, which helps to improve efficiency.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing a functional configuration of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart when sending an electronic mail.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart when receiving an e-mail;
FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a conventional example.
[Explanation of symbols]
11 Transmission means 12 Reception means 13 Non-delivery destination search means 14 Non-delivery destination storage means 15 Non-delivery destination generation means 16 Display means 17 Operation means

Claims (4)

Non-delivery destination generation means for extracting and registering non-delivery destinations that have been undelivered from e-mails that notify non-delivery, and non-delivery destination storage means for storing non-delivery destinations extracted by the non-delivery destination generation means And a non-delivery destination search means for searching for a non-delivery destination from an e-mail destination to be transmitted with reference to the non-delivery destination storage means, and a display of the non-delivery destination detected by the non-delivery destination search means Display means, and operation means for writing the new address together with the undelivered address when a new address that does not reach the undelivered address stored in the undelivered address memory is known,
When the non-delivery destination search means detects a non-delivery destination as the destination of the e-mail to be sent, if the non-delivery destination of the non-delivery destination storage means has the designation of the new destination, the non-delivery destination search means An e-mail processing apparatus , wherein a non-delivery destination is replaced with the new destination and transmitted .   2. The e-mail processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a non-delivery address searching means for detecting an address that has not been reached in the past from an address of the e-mail to be transmitted and notifying the user.   When the received e-mail is a non-delivery notification, the non-delivery destination generating unit automatically extracts the non-delivery notification destination from the non-delivery notification e-mail and stores the non-delivery destination in the non-delivery destination storage unit. The electronic mail processing apparatus according to claim 1.   An unreachable destination stored in the unreachable destination storage unit includes an operation unit that enables a user to display a non-reachable destination, add a non-reachable destination, and delete a non-reachable destination. The electronic mail processing apparatus according to claim 1.

Images