JPH06252944A - Electronic mail system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily totalize the answer information written in the formed mails. CONSTITUTION:An electronic mail system includes a mail producing/transmitting means 11 which produced and transmits the formed mails, a mail answer returning means 13 which writes the necessary information into the formed mails, and a mail totalizing means 12 which totalizes the information based on the information written in the mails. When a mail is received at a receiving part 13a of the means 13, the necessary information is written into the mail at a writing part 13b. Then a deciding part 13c decides whether the written information is set in a prescribed form or not. Then only the information of a prescribed form is transmitted through a transmitting part 13d.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail system composed of computers connected by a network.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional electronic mail system, when a sender sends a standard document such as a questionnaire and requests opinions from a large number of people, the receiver creates an answer mail while referring to the sent electronic mail. is doing. For this reason, the form of the created response varies depending on the recipient, and it becomes difficult for the sender to put together the response information of the recipient.

For example, when the sender sends a fixed form document to the recipient in order to create a new address book, depending on the recipient, the address may be replied "Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture ..." in order from the prefecture name. Except for the prefecture name, you may reply "Kawasaki City ...". In this case, the sender needs to unify and compile these pieces of reply information again.

[0004]

As described above, in the conventional e-mail, the recipient refers to the sent e-mail and responds in a unique form, so that the sender can further unify the information. Therefore, the processing work becomes complicated.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object thereof is to provide an electronic mail system capable of avoiding a complicated work such as unification of information performed on the sender side. And

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a mail with a form is created, a mail with a form for sending the mail with the form is sent, and a mail with a form from the mail with the sending means is received, and a mail with the form is received. The necessary information is written in, and it is judged whether or not the written information is in a predetermined form, and only the information written in the predetermined form is returned by the mail reply replying means and the mail reply replying means An electronic mail system comprising: a mail totaling means for totaling information based on the information written in the attached mail.

[0007]

[Function] When a mail with a form is sent from the mail creating means to the mail reply replying means, necessary information is written in the mail with reply form by the mail reply replying means, and the written information is in a predetermined form. It is determined whether there is any. Next, only the information written in the predetermined form is transmitted from the mail reply reply means, and this written information is totaled by the mail totaling means.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 4 are diagrams showing an embodiment of an electronic mail system according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the electronic mail system includes a mail creating / sending means 11 for creating a mail with a form and sending the mail with a form, and a mail creating / sending means 11
A mail reply reply means 13 for writing necessary information to the mail with a form sent from, and a mail creating and sending means 1
1 and a mail totaling means 12 for totaling information based on the information written in the form-equipped mail.

Of these, the mail reply reply means 13 will be described in detail. The mail reply replying unit 13 receives the form-attached mail sent from the mail creating and transmitting unit 11, a receiving unit 13a, a writing unit 13b for writing necessary information to the form-attached mail, and the written information. It has a judgment unit 13c for judging whether or not is a predetermined form, and a transmission unit 13d for transmitting only the information written in the predetermined form to the mail creating and transmitting means 11 side.

Next, the operation of this embodiment having such a configuration will be described.

First, the questioner shown in FIG. 2 creates a mail with a form by the mail creating / transmitting means 11. In this case, the form-attached mail has an identifier added to the head of the mail in order to distinguish it from other electronic mail.

FIG. 3 shows an example of creating a form-equipped mail on the side of the mail creating / transmitting means 11 and FIG.

Next, the questioner sends an e-mail with a form to the respondent A.
~ Send to C. Respondents A to D are email response replying means 1
After receiving the e-mail with the form by the receiving unit 13a of No. 3, the writing unit 13b opens the e-mail with the form.
In the writing unit 13b, the respondents A to D write necessary reply information in a predetermined form in the form-equipped mail shown in the form shown in FIG. Then, the determination unit 13c determines whether the written information is in a predetermined form.
If it is determined that the predetermined form has been obtained, the process proceeds to the next item, and necessary information is written in the predetermined form one after another.

When the judgment section 13c judges that the predetermined form is not obtained, the information is rewritten so that the predetermined form is obtained.

[0016] For example, in a mail with a form for creating a new address book, the place where the address should originally be written as "Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture ..." is written as "Kawasaki City ..." without "Kanagawa Prefecture". In the case of the judgment, the judgment unit 13c judges that the predetermined form is not obtained, and it is necessary to rewrite the predetermined form.

The form-equipped mail in which the necessary information is written in a predetermined form in this way is sent to the mail totaling means 12 via the mail creating means 11 by the sending unit 13d. Next, the mail totaling means 12 totals the information written in the form-equipped mail.

According to this embodiment, the mail reply reply means 1
3 from the mail creating means 11 via the mail totaling means 12
Since the reply information sent to is unified in a predetermined form, the totaling work in the mail totaling means 12 can be performed easily and quickly.

[0019]

As described above, the reply information sent from the mail reply reply means to the mail totaling means can be unified into a predetermined form, so that the totaling work in the mail totaling means can be performed easily and quickly. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of an electronic mail system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a relationship between a questioner and an answerer who use the electronic mail system.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of creating a mail with a form by a mail creating and transmitting unit.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of receiving a mail with a form in a mail reply replying means.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 E-mail creating / sending means 12 E-mail counting means 13 E-mail reply reply means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Forming a mail with a form, sending a mail with a form for sending the mail with a form, receiving a mail with a form from the means for creating and sending a mail, and writing necessary information to the mail with a form , E-mail reply replying means that judges whether the written information is in the prescribed form and returns only the information written in the prescribed form, and the information written in the e-mail with the form by the email response replying means An electronic mail system comprising: an electronic mail totaling means for totaling information based on.