JPH05122244A - Electronic mail equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the equipment informing the reception of a mail by minimizing a load of a network to a recipient of an electronic mail. CONSTITUTION:An electronic mail recognition equipment 6 delivers an electronic mail, a caller discrimination reader 7 and a call time discrimination device 8 obtain a sender and a call time based on the received electronic mail to generate a sender list 9 in which the sender and the call time of the electronic mail received by a sender list generator 10 are described. A communication coupler 11 couples the communication between a requested recipient on request and the sender list 9. After the communication is linked by an electronic mail reception notice equipment 12, the information relating to the recipient is informed to the recipient. Since the notice is made based on the presence of mail reception, the load of the communication line is minimized.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for transmitting and receiving document data created on a computer as an electronic mail, and more particularly to managing the incoming state of an electronic mail by a sender list of the electronic mail and using the sender list. The present invention relates to an apparatus for notifying an email recipient that an email has been received.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 shows Masafumi Saito et al., "Electronic Mail System Providing Name Service," Mitsubishi Electric Technical Report, Vo.
l. 65 / No. Figure 3 shows a conventional e-mail device as shown on pages 3/1991/84. FIG. 4 shows a conventional electronic mail reception notification device used under the electronic mail device of the conventional example.

In FIG. 3, 1A, 1B, 1C are workstations, 2A, 2B, 2C are document files created by the workstations. Further, 4 is a mail server, and 5 is a mailbox. In FIG. 4, 12
Reference numerals A, 12B, and 12C denote e-mail reception notification devices.

When sending a letter (e-mail) using a computer (workstation), an electronic mail device is used. FIG. 3 shows a conventional example of an electronic mail device, which can send and receive electronic mail. When sending,
Mail senders are workstations 1A, 1B, 1C
The document files 2A, 2B and 2C created in
It is transmitted to the mail server 4 via A, 3B, and 3C.
The mail server 4 uses the address (address) of the recipient rather than the mail.
Then, the mail is transmitted to another mail server via the communication path 3D. In the case of reception, the electronic mail that has entered via the communication path 3D is put in the mailbox 5. The recipient sends the delivered electronic mail in the mailbox 5 to the workstation 1 via the communication paths 3A, 3B and 3C.
Transfer to A, 1B, 1C and receive.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the operation of a conventional electronic mail reception / notification device used under the conventional electronic mail device. The electronic mail reception / notification devices 12A, 12B are shown in FIG.
12C inspects the mailbox 5 of the mail server 4 through the communication paths 3A, 3B, and 3C at regular time intervals set by the e-mail recipient, and notifies the recipient when a mail addressed to the recipient is detected.

[0006]

Since the conventional electronic mail reception / notification device is configured as described above and investigates the arrival of the electronic mail through the communication path regardless of whether or not the electronic mail arrives, There has been a problem that the load on the network increases as the number of people who use the e-mail reception notification device increases and as the interval between e-mail arrival surveys decreases.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems. If the e-mail recipient issues a request for notification of e-mail reception once, an e-mail reception notification is issued every time the e-mail arrives. The purpose is to obtain a device capable of performing.

[0008]

The sender list creating apparatus according to the present invention creates a sender list of an electronic mail received at the time of receiving an electronic mail, and describes the sender and the sending time for each recipient in the list. The communication coupling device couples the communication between the e-mail recipient and the sender list, and the e-mail reception notifying device notifies the recipient who is combined with the communication of the contents of the sender list.

[0009]

Since the electronic mail reception / notification device configured as described above uses the network only when an electronic mail is received after the communication is combined by the communication combining device,
The load on the network can be minimized.

Then, it becomes unnecessary for a person who uses this electronic mail reception notification device to consider the load on the network.

[0011]

EXAMPLES Example 1. 1 is a block diagram showing a part of an electronic mail device according to a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the whole thereof. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 6 denotes an electronic mail recognition device for recognizing reception of an electronic mail. 7 judges and extracts the sender from the electronic mail received by the sender reading device. Reference numeral 8 determines and extracts the transmission time from the electronic mail received by the transmission time reading device. Reference numeral 9 is a sender list in which the sender and the sending time of the received electronic mail are described, which is created by the sender list creating device 10 from the outputs of the recipient reading device 7 and the receiving time reading device 8. Reference numeral 11 denotes a communication coupling device, and a sender list 9 when requested by a recipient.
And combine the recipient's communication. After combining the communications by the e-mail reception notifying device 12, 12 notifies the e-mail receiving device such as the workstation used by the recipient of the information related to the coupled recipient in the sender list 9.

In the electronic mail reception / notification device configured as described above, the electronic mail recognition device 6 recognizes that the mail has been received by the mail box 5 of the mail server 4. When the reception of the mail is recognized, the transmission reading device 7 determines and extracts the transmission source from the received electronic mail. Transmission time reading device 8 The transmission time is judged and extracted from the received electronic mail. The sender list creating device 10 creates a sender list 9 in which senders and sender times of electronic mails are listed for each recipient by the sender reader 7 and the sender time reader 8.

Next, the communication coupling device 11 couples the communication between the sender list 9 and the e-mail recipient when requested by the recipient. Then, the email reception notification device 12
After the communication is combined with the communication, it notifies the recipient of the information related to the combined recipient in the sender list.

[0014] Further, by making the coupled electronic mail receiving device notify the information related to the recipient each time the electronic mail is received,
It is easy for the recipient to recognize that the email is received.

[0015]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it is possible to reduce the load on the network by notifying only the recipient who has requested the reception notification of the electronic mail.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electronic mail device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing a conventional electronic mail device.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram showing a conventional electronic mail reception notification device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 workstation 2 document file 3 communication path 4 mail server 5 mailbox 6 email recognition device 7 sender reading device 8 sending time reading device 9 sender list 10 sender list creating device 11 communication coupling device 12 e-mail reception notification device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An e-mail recognition device for recognizing reception of an e-mail, a sender reading device for judging and extracting a sender from the received e-mail, and a sending time reading device for judging and extracting a sending time from the received e-mail. , Source list that lists the originator and origination time of the received e-mail, originator list creation device that creates a sender list for each recipient from the originator reading device and origination time reading device, request from the email receiving device If there is, a communication coupling device that couples the communication between the sender list and the electronic mail receiving device, and an electronic mail reception notification device that notifies the electronic mail receiving device that combines the communication of the information about the recipient in the sender list An electronic mail device comprising: