JPH07253939A - Electronic mail transmission and reception device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate a difference between the specification of a sent document and the specification of a transmission destination as to an electronic mail system by putting a mail document body and address information together into a document file. CONSTITUTION:The electronic mail transmission device specifies the address of an electronic mail by an address specifying means 20 and sends it to a transmitting means 21. Further, the device is equipped with an address information discriminating means 22 which discriminates and extracts the address information from the mail document. The electronic mail transmission device discriminates the address information A in the mail document by the address information discriminating means 22, distinctively extracts other parts B and M from the mail document, and passes them to the address specifying means 20. The electronic mail reception device receives the mail document by a receiving means 23. Further, the device is equipped with a message discriminating means 24 which discriminates a temporary message M in the received mail document and discriminates it from the document main body B. The electronic mail reception device discriminates the temporary message M in the received mail document by a message discriminating means 24 and processes it distinctively from the document main body B.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic mail transmitter and receiver.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram of an electronic mail system. An electronic mail system is a document, an image, a voice, etc. in the form of digital data (hereinafter referred to as a mail document as a representative) between terminal devices such as workstations, personal computers and word processors via a computer network. ) Accumulate and replace. A mail document sent from a certain terminal device is temporarily stored for each destination in a mailbox 3 in an auxiliary storage device of a computer positioned as a center, and is connected to another terminal device via a network (WAN, LAN, etc.) L. When a request is made from the same terminal device, the ID and password are used to confirm that the destination is correct, and the mail document stored in the mailbox is transmitted. The control of the system is performed by the electronic mail program 2.
The electronic mail program 2 is composed of an item 2c in the center and an item 2t in each terminal.

The operation procedure for transmitting a document using such an electronic mail system is as follows. The operator creates a mail document using the document creation program 1 (word processor) or the like and saves it as a document file F. The operator activates the email program 2t. The electronic mail program 2t instructs the operator to specify the mail document (input the name of the document file F), information about the destination (destination information A = j), and the message M that is temporary information. To do. Note that the operations of and are not necessarily a series of operations. That is, it is common to do it at another time. The operator inputs the name of the file F of the mail document (or selects from the document list) according to the instruction,
The destination information A is input (this may also be selected from the list), the presence or absence of a message is designated, and the message M is input if there is a message. E-mail programs 2t and 2c are input destination information A
Then, the destination is determined and the mail document and the message are stored in the destination area of the mailbox 3.

The operation procedure for receiving a document using the electronic mail system is as follows. When the destination operator activates an e-mail program on any terminal and finds out that there is an e-mail addressed to him, he requests to send it. The electronic mail program 2c extracts the mail document and the message from the destination mailbox and sends them to the requesting terminal device. The electronic mail program 2t of the terminal device displays the received electronic mail and performs processing such as saving as a file.

[0005]

When sending a mail document, the operator must separately specify the document and the like and the destination. Therefore, there may be a discrepancy between the designation of the mail document and the designation of the destination. That is, send a different document to the destination (especially when selecting a document from the list),
The document may be sent to a different destination (especially when the destination is selected from the list).

It is an object of the present invention to realize electronic mail transmission with few errors by writing destination information in a mail document.

[0007]

FIG. 1 shows the principle of the present invention. In the electronic mail transmitting device, the destination specifying unit 20 specifies the destination of the electronic mail, and the transmitting unit 21 transmits it.
The present invention further comprises destination information identifying means 22 for identifying and extracting the destination information in the mail document.

The electronic mail receiving device receives the mail document by the receiving means 23. The present invention comprises a message identifying means 24 for identifying the temporary message M in the received mail document and distinguishing it from the document body B.

[0009]

In the electronic mail transmitting apparatus, the destination information identifying means 22 identifies the destination information A in the mail document, extracts it separately from the other parts B and M of the mail document, and passes it to the destination designating means 20.

Further, the electronic mail receiving device identifies the temporary message M in the received mail document by the message identifying means 24 and processes the message separately from the document body B.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the mail document transmitting apparatus and the receiving apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. The substance is a personal computer, which operates as a mail document sending device and a receiving device by an electronic mail program on its memory 200. As for hardware, the magnetic disk 100,
It is equipped with a CRT display 300 and is controlled by a microprocessor (not shown). The transmitter and the receiver are physically integrated and can be used as either. The e-mail program is a destination information identification routine for identifying and extracting destination information in a document for transmission.
22 and a destination processing routine 20 and a transmission routine 21 for designating a destination using the information. Similarly for receiving,
Reception routine 23 and message identification routine 24 that identifies and separates temporary messages from the received data
And so on.

FIG. 4 shows the format of a mail document according to the embodiment of the present invention. When the destination information is written in the mail document, the destination information A is described on the first page when it is created. "▽" mark 11 at the beginning (indicates the start of destination information)
And mark "△" mark 12 or page break mark "□" 13
end with. In the meantime, describe the destination information. The figure shows an example in which the destination information A is a destination address and an address. The destination address is, for example, a WAN (Wide Area Network) destination LAN (Loca
The identification ID and the address of the l Area Network are the user ID in the LAN. Multiple destination information A separated by ","
Can be described. When a plurality of destination information is described, the communication is broadcast and the same mail document is sent to a plurality of destinations.

When it is desired to send a temporary message M different from the mail document body B to the destination, it is described after the destination information. It ends with a page break mark "□" 13 and the data after that is the mail document body B.

The processing procedure will be described with reference to the flowchart of the transmission processing procedure of the embodiment shown in FIG. The e-mail program will display the magnetic disk when the document name or file name of the mail document to be sent is specified.
Retrieving the document from 100, address information identification routine 22
To start. The destination information identification routine 22 confirms whether or not there is a “∇” mark at the beginning of the first page. If not, end. Therefore, the conventional processing is performed. That is, the operator is prompted to input destination information and a message. If there is a "▽" mark at the beginning of the first page, read the destination information up to the "△" mark or the page break mark "□" from there, and pass the information to the destination processing routine 20 in the email program. . If there are characters after the “Δ” mark and before the page break mark “□”, they are the message M. These characters are treated the same as the document body in transmission. The character after the page break mark "□" is the mail document body B.
And the same processing as the conventional transmission processing.

The procedure of the reception process is as follows. When the email program receives the data, it invokes the message identification routine 24. If there are characters between the mark "△" and the page break mark "□" in the received data, the message identification routine 24 regards them as a message M, and cuts them from the other part (document body B). Let go. The processing may be performed, for example, by simply displaying it on a display or as a file as another document. The subsequent process is the same as the conventional receiving process.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the mail document body and the destination information are integrated into a document file, the destination information can be designated at the same time only by designating the document file name in the electronic mail transmitting device. Therefore, the e-mail can be sent more accurately. Also, a temporary message received together with a document can be handled by the receiving side separately from the document body.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a transmission processing procedure according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a format of a mail document according to the embodiment

[Fig. 5] Conceptual diagram of an electronic mail system

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Document creation program 11 Destination information start mark 12 Destination information end mark 13 Page break mark (Mail document start mark) 2 E-mail program 2c Center e-mail program 2t Terminal e-mail program 20 Destination designation means (destination processing routine) 21 Transmission means (transmission routine) 22 Destination information identification means (destination information identification routine) 23 Reception means (reception routine) 24 Message identification means (message identification routine) 3 Mailbox 100 Magnetic disk 200 Memory 300 CRT display L Network (LAN) F Mail document A Destination information M Message B Mail document body

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An electronic mail transmitting apparatus for transmitting a mail document based on the destination information via a communication line, comprising: destination information identifying means (22) for identifying and extracting the destination information in the mail document. An e-mail transmission device characterized in that a destination is specified by the retrieved destination information. 2. An electronic mail receiving device for receiving a mail document via a communication line, comprising message identification means (24) for identifying temporary message information in the received mail document, and the identified message is referred to as a document body. An electronic mail receiving device characterized by different handling.