JPH11175428A - Receiving nail unitary management method of different electronic mail system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve operability by acquiring a receiving mail from a mail server on which the same type of an electronic mail system is mounted, extracting a necessary item such as a sending source and displaying it in the list. SOLUTION: A parameter 210 of each electronic mail system 140 to 142 is accessed which is set in an external storage device, etc., user ID information 2101 for starting each system 140-142, password information 2102 and start file name information 2103 are read from the parameter 210. Next, the A electronic mail system 140 is automatically started and a receiving mail 223 is fetched from a mail server. An extracting processing 226 extracts needed items in a header part from the mail 223 and they are added to the list display 150. The display 150 shows, e.g. information such as the data, item name and sending source of a receiving mail in each different mail system.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a client / server system environment constructed in an office or the like.
The present invention relates to a method for collectively receiving received mails from different electronic mail systems sent to an organization or an individual as received information and centrally managing them.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a client-server system environment constructed in an office or the like, in order to smoothly exchange e-mail with an e-mail system of a large number of customers or customers, the customer or specialty is required. The e-mail system (e-mail program) operated by the destination
A plurality of e-mail systems having the same or equivalent communication protocol, data format, and function are mounted on a client device to communicate with customers or customers.

As described above, when a plurality of electronic mail systems are mounted on a client device, it is necessary to individually activate each electronic mail system and check whether received mail has arrived.

[0004]

However, in the prior art, each e-mail system is individually started by manual operation, and it is confirmed whether or not a received mail has arrived at each e-mail system. Therefore, there is a problem that it is troublesome and time-consuming to confirm the received mail received by all the electronic mail systems, and it is extremely troublesome.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for unified management of received e-mails of different e-mail systems, which can collectively check received e-mails of different e-mail systems.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a storage means in which parameters for automatically starting a plurality of different e-mail systems in a client device are set and received. In order to display a list of e-mails, each e-mail system is sequentially activated based on the parameters, and the activated e-mail system acquires received e-mails from a mail server equipped with the same type of e-mail system, It is characterized in that necessary items such as a sender in the received mail are extracted and displayed in a list.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention including the configuration of the entire network. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 110 denotes a first mail server equipped with an A-mail system 113, 111 denotes a second mail server equipped with a B-mail system 114, and 112 denotes a third mail equipped with a C-mail system 115 A server 120 is a communication network. Each of these mail servers 110, 111, 112 is connected to a communication network 120, and each of the mail servers 110, 11
1,112 e-mail systems 113,114,1
15 stores the transmitted mail data. Also, each of these mail servers 110, 111, 1
Reference numeral 12 denotes a client device 13 via a communication line network 120.
0, a request to transfer received mail is received from the client device 1 which has requested the received mail.
Transfer to 30.

On the other hand, the client device 130 installed in an office or the like has an A-mail system 140, a B-mail system 141, and a C-mail system 142.
These are connected to the communication network 120.

Here, if there is a received mail transmitted to each of the electronic mail systems 113, 114, 115 of the respective mail servers 110, 111, 112 to the individual "USER", the client device 130
E-mail systems 140 and 14 installed in
1, 142 takes in the received mail data of "USER" and extracts necessary items. The extracted information is displayed as a list display 150 on the display screen of the client device 130. In the present embodiment, the received mail of each electronic mail system is centrally managed by the list display 150.

Next, each of the electronic mail systems 113 and 11
4 and 115, a method for taking and extracting a received mail will be described with reference to FIG. First, user ID information 2101, password information 2102, and e-mail system startup file name information 2103 for activating each e-mail system 140, 141, 142 are set in advance in an external storage device of the client device 130 or the like.
Therefore, when displaying a list of received mails, the parameter 2 of each of the e-mail systems 140, 141, 142 set in the external storage device or the like is used.
10 is accessed, and user ID information 2101, password information 2102, and startup file name information 2103 for activating each of the e-mail systems 140, 141, 142 are read from the parameters 210.

Next, the A-mail system 140 is automatically started based on the read parameters 210, and the received mail 223 is fetched from the mail server 110 by the automatically started A-mail system 140. The received mail 223 taken in is extracted by the extraction process 226.
The necessary items in the header portion are extracted and added to the list display 230. Similarly, B e-mail system 14
1 and C e-mail system 142 are automatically started in sequence, and received mails 224 and 22 are sent from mail servers 111 and 112.
Import 5 Incoming received mails 224, 225
By the extraction process 226, necessary items in the header portion are extracted and added to the list display 230.

In the list display 150, for example, information such as the date, subject, and transmission source of the received mail is displayed for each mail system, as shown in the figure.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the procedure of a process for taking and extracting a received mail. First, step 31
User I set in advance from parameter 210 at 0
The D information 2101, the password information 2102, and the e-mail system startup file name information 2103 are read. In the branch determination of step 320, it is determined whether or not the parameter 210 exists. If the parameter 210 exists, the process proceeds to step 330, and if not, the process ends. In step 330, the corresponding e-mail system is started based on the parameters 210 read in step 310. In the branch determination of step 340, it is determined whether or not the received e-mail is present in the activated e-mail system. If the e-mail is present, the process proceeds to step 350 to extract necessary items of the received e-mail. The process returns to step 340 to determine whether or not the received mail exists in the e-mail system, and repeats the same processing. Conversely, if there is no received mail in step 340, the process returns to step 310,
The next parameter 210 of the e-mail system is read, and the same processing is repeated.

In the list display 150 shown in FIG. 2, when the name or department name of the transmission destination is known, it may be further classified and displayed by name or department name.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Parameters for automatically starting a plurality of different e-mail systems are set in advance, and when displaying a list of received e-mails, each e-mail system is sequentially started based on the parameters, and the activated e-mail system is activated. The system is configured to acquire received mail from a mail server equipped with the same type of e-mail system by the mail system, extract necessary items such as the sender in the received mail, and display it in a list. By simply performing the operation of designating the above parameters, the received e-mails of a plurality of e-mail systems can be collectively acquired and displayed in a list. This makes it possible to centrally manage the e-mails received by a plurality of e-mail systems with an extremely simple operation, thereby greatly improving operability. In particular, it is inevitable that various types of e-mail systems will be put into practical use in the future. According to the present invention, even if a new e-mail system is added, parameters for activating the e-mail system are required. You can deal with it simply by making additional settings.
It is possible to flexibly cope with expansion or deletion of the e-mail system.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a received mail capture / extraction process.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a received mail fetching extraction procedure;

[Explanation of symbols]

110, 111, 112 ... mail server, 113, 11
4, 115: E-mail system, 120: Communication network, 130: Client device, 140 to 142: E-mail system, 150: List display, 210: Parameter, 226: Extraction processing

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A client comprising: a plurality of mail servers equipped with different e-mail systems; and a client device connected to the mail server via a network and equipped with a plurality of e-mail systems of the same type as the e-mail system of the mail server. In an e-mail system in a server system environment, a storage unit in which parameters for automatically starting a plurality of different e-mail systems in the client device are prepared, and a list of received e-mails is displayed. Activate each e-mail system in order based on the received e-mail system, obtain the received e-mail from the mail server equipped with the same e-mail system by the activated e-mail system, and Extract items and display them in a list. Incoming mail centralized method of different electronic mail system according to claim.