JPS642449A - Communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To eliminate the long-time storage of mail information and to utilize a mail box effectively by urging a receiving terminal to receive the mail information which is stored for longer than a specific time by a communication device equipped with the mail box for storing mail information from respective terminals.

CONSTITUTION: When a write request for the mail box 17 is inputted from a transmitting terminal, the mail information from the transmitting terminal is received. Then the maximum permissible storage time of the received mail information is set in time data 33 in a table 18 according to the current time. When there is a request to read out the mail information from a terminal, the table 18 is referred to and the mail information is read out of the mail box according to a mail information disk address 34 corresponding to the terminal which sends out the read request and sent to the terminal which sends out the read request. Then the sent mail information in the mail box 17 is cleared. When there is no request to read, on the other hand, mail information which exceeds an effective storage time is decided in the mail box 17 and the control data 32 of the index data of the mail information is referred to; and the address of a receiving terminal is found and a reception urging signal is sent out to the terminal.

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