KR100443695B1 - Method for dispersing and managing e-mails and system therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mail distribution management method and system for filtering each mail according to a condition set by a user and automatically forwarding or automatically deleting each mail accordingly according to the present invention. External account DB for storing information about at least one external mail account; A filtering DB for receiving and storing filtering conditions for classifying mails received from the outside and selectively forwarding them to each external mail account; A processing result DB for storing the processing result for the received mail; When the mail for the user is received from the outside, the received mail is classified according to the filtering condition and forwarded to the external mail account corresponding to the classified result, and the mail for processing the received mail is recorded in the processing result DB. Configure a mail distribution management system including a distributed management server. According to the present invention, there is an effect that can provide a more improved mail service to the user. In addition, forwarding mail is distributed and distributed to a plurality of external mail servers owned by a user, thereby effectively utilizing the mail usage quota for each external mail account.

Description

METHOD FOR DISPERSING AND MANAGING E-MAILS AND SYSTEM THEREFOR}

The present invention relates to a method for classifying various mails received on the Internet according to a condition set by a user, and more particularly, to filter and classify each mail according to a condition set by a user. The present invention relates to a mail distribution management method and a system therefor that can be forwarded to each other mail account.

As is well known, due to the rapid increase in the number of Internet users, various additional services using the Internet are also rapidly developing. One of these Internet additional services is e-mail using the Internet. At present, most Internet service providers have a mail server to provide a mail account to a subscriber, and most Internet users usually have one or more mail accounts.

Recently, an integrated mail management system has been developed to integrate and manage multiple mail accounts owned by users so that users can check mail received through different mail accounts through a single mail server. In other words, when a user accesses the integrated mail management server and inputs information on a plurality of external mail accounts, the user can receive all mails received through each external mail account through the integrated mail account server. Will be. Therefore, this integrated mail management service provides a user with a more convenient email use environment.

However, such a conventional integrated mail management system or a general mail server does not provide a filtering and classification function for received mails. That is, the function of filtering or classifying each mail received by the user according to a predetermined condition and forwarding each classified mail to another mail account desired by the user is not provided. This will enable us to provide a better mail service experience for our users.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above-described points, and the mail distribution management method and system for filtering each mail according to a condition set by a user and automatically forwarding or automatically deleting each mail account accordingly accordingly. The purpose is to provide.

The present invention according to one aspect for achieving the above object,

A mail distribution management system for classifying and forwarding mails based on a condition set by a user, comprising: an external account DB for storing information on at least one external mail account held by a user; A filtering DB that receives and stores filtering conditions for classifying mail received from the outside and selectively forwarding the mail to the external mail account; A processing result DB for storing the processing result for the received mail; And, when the mail for the user is received from the outside, classify the received mail based on the filtering condition, forward the processing to the external mail account corresponding to the classified result, and process a result of the received mail. It provides a mail distribution management system including a mail distribution management server to record in the processing result DB.

The present invention according to another aspect for achieving the above object,

A method of classifying and forwarding mails based on a condition set by a user in a mail distribution management system, the method comprising: a first step of receiving and storing classification and deletion conditions for classifying or deleting received mails; A second step of extracting a recipient ID from the received mail and determining whether an external mail account corresponding to the recipient ID is preset when a mail is received from the outside; A third step of returning the received mail if the external mail account is not set, and searching for the classification condition or the deletion condition corresponding to the recipient ID if the external mail account is set; If the classification condition or the deletion condition is not found, the received mail is forwarded to an external mail account corresponding to a predetermined order. If the classification condition or the deletion condition is found, the received mail is the classification condition or the deletion. A fourth step of checking whether the condition is met; A fifth step of forwarding the received mail to an external mail account corresponding to the classification condition if the received mail meets the classification condition, and deleting the received mail if the received mail is met; And a sixth step of recording a processing result of the received mail.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an overall system suitable for applying the mail distribution management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a mail distribution management process according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10-1, 10-2,... : Your PC

20-1, 20-2,... , 20-N: external mail server

100: mail distribution management system 110: mail distribution management server

120: user DB 130: external account DB

140: filtering DB 150: processing result DB

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an overall system suitable for applying the mail distribution management method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of user PCs (10-1, 10-2, ...) and an external mail server (20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-N) and mail distribution management system 100. FIG. Here, the mail distribution management system 100 is a mail distribution management server 110, user DB 120, external account DB 130, filtering DB 140 and processing result DB 150, as shown in the figure It is configured to include.

Referring to Fig. 1, the functions of the respective constituent means will be described. First, the user PCs 10-1, 10-2, ... mean an ordinary personal computer capable of accessing the Internet, which will be described later through an Internet network. The servers 20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-N and the mail distribution management system 100 can be connected.

The external mail servers 20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-N are general mail servers that provide mail accounts to a large number of users. And the mail distribution management system 100 described later.

The mail distribution management system 100 includes a mail distribution management server 110, a user DB 120, an external account DB 130, a filtering DB 140, and a processing result DB 150, as shown in FIG. Here, the mail distribution management server 110 performs a normal login process for a plurality of user PCs (10-1, 10-2, ...) connected to the Internet network and connected through the Internet network. According to the present invention, mail is forwarded to external mail servers 20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-N.

In addition, the user DB 120 is a means for storing basic information of a user, such as a user ID and a password, for a plurality of users subscribed to the mail distribution management system 100 in a database form, and the external account DB 130. ) Is a means for receiving a plurality of external mail account information owned by each user from a user and storing the information in a database form. For example, a plurality of external mail servers 20-1, 20-2, ..., 20- It stores database information about each mail address and recent connection time of each mail server.

The filtering DB 140 is a means for receiving and storing a condition for filtering each mail received through the mail distribution management server 110 from the user. That is, the mail distribution management system 100 according to the present invention filters the mail received to each user according to a condition set by the user to automatically delete the received mail or to designate an external mail server 20-1 or 20. -1, ..., 20-N) to be distributed by forwarding. In addition, the filtering conditions used at this time may be directly set by each user, and the filtering DB 140 stores the filtering conditions set by each user in the form of a database for each user.

Here, the above-described filtering conditions will be described in detail.

The filtering condition according to the present invention is classified into a deletion condition and a classification condition. In the case where the user wants to automatically delete a mail that meets a specific condition, the user inputs a keyword or a sender's e-mail address for the message subject, and then Just select the delete function. For example, if the user sets the keyword for the mail subject to "advertisement" and the sender address to "1234@abcd.com" to select the delete function, the mail distribution management server 110 receives the user from the outside. Among the mails, the mail containing the word "ad" in the subject and the mailer whose address is "1234@abcd.com" are searched and the corresponding mail is automatically deleted.

In contrast, classification criteria allow you to forward mail that meets the criteria you set to another external mail account that you own. For example, if a user has a sender's address "3333@abcd.com", 1 When forwarding to an external mail server 20-1, and a mail including the word "order" or "contract" in the subject of the mail is set to be forwarded to the second external mail server 20-2, mail distribution management The server 110 checks the subject and sender address of each received mail and classifies the mail according to the above conditions, and then sorts each mail into the first external mail server 20-1 and the second external mail server 20. -2) to be distributed forwarding.

In addition, in the mail filtering condition, various conditions such as the contents, the size, the sending time, the presence of the attached file, the type of the attached file, etc., in addition to the keyword and the sender address for the above-mentioned subject can be set. Access to the mail distribution management server 110 at any time can modify the external mail account information and filtering conditions registered therein.

Meanwhile, the mail distribution management server 110 forwards each mail to each external mail server 20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-N based on the filtering condition set by the user as described above. If the mail is not included in the above-described filtering condition, the mail is forwarded sequentially to each of the external mail servers 20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-N. In other words, the mail distribution management server 110 always uses the external mail server most recently forwarded among the external mail servers 20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-N registered by the user. ), And when the mail does not correspond to the above-described filtering condition, the mail is forwarded to the external mail server corresponding to the next order of the mail server recently forwarded with reference to the external account DB 130. As a result, this sequential forwarding can be prevented from intensively forwarding to one external mail server, thereby making the most of the mail usage quota for each external mail server registered by the user. .

2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of performing a mail distribution management method according to the present invention, which will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, in order for a user to be provided with a mail distribution management system such as mail filtering and forwarding through the mail distribution management system 100 according to the present invention, the user subscribes to the mail distribution management system 100, and then the user has an external mail account. Information about an external mail address, a password, and the like, and the mail filtering condition as described above must be set. At this time, the mail distribution management server 110 records a plurality of external mail account information input by the user in the external account DB 130, and then records the mail filtering condition set by the user in the filtering DB 140 later. Will filter and categorize incoming mail to users.

Therefore, each process described below assumes that a plurality of external mail account information and mail filtering conditions registered by the user are previously stored in the respective DBs 130 and 140 through the above-described process. The operation center of the mail distribution management system 100 will be described.

Referring to FIG. 2, when the mail distribution management server 110 receives mail for an arbitrary user through the Internet network (step S201), the mail ID is extracted from the received mail and the receiver ID is the user DB 120. It is determined whether or not there is a valid user ID (step S203).

As a result of the determination, if it is not a valid ID, that is, if there is no ID that matches the recipient ID in the user DB 120, the mail is automatically returned by using the sender address that sent the received mail (step S205). ).

On the contrary, when the receiver ID is a valid user ID, the external account DB 130 is searched again to check whether the external mail account information of the user corresponding to the receiver ID exists. (Step S207). When there is no external mail account information registered by the user as a result of the check, the mail received through the above-described step S205 is similarly processed.

If the external mail account information registered by the user exists in the external account DB 130, the filtering DB 140 is searched to check whether the filtering condition set by the user exists (step S209). In this case, when the filtering condition set by the user does not exist in the filtering DB 140, the external mail server 130 which is the most recently forwarded external mail server among the external mail accounts of the user found in step S207 described above is used. After searching from (step S211), the mail is forwarded to the external mail server corresponding to the next step (step S213). Then, the latest forwarding external mail server recorded in the external account DB 130 is updated and recorded with the external mail server forwarded in step S213 described above (step S215).

On the other hand, if the filtering condition set by the user exists in the filtering DB 140 as a result of the check in the above-described step (S209), it is determined whether the deletion condition exists in the set filtering condition (step S217). When the deletion condition is set, it is determined whether the received mail meets the deletion condition (step S219), the corresponding mail is deleted (step S221), and it is determined whether the classification condition is set again (step S221). S223).

In addition, when a classification condition for classifying and forwarding mails in the filtering condition is set, it is determined whether the received mail corresponds to a classification condition included in the filtering information (step S225), where the received mail corresponds to the classification condition. If not, the mail received through the above-described step S211 is sequentially forwarded to one of the external mail servers 20-1, 20-2, ..., 20-N.

On the contrary, if it is determined in the above-described step S225 that the received mail corresponds to the classification condition, the mail distribution management server 110 sends the received mail to the corresponding external mail server based on this classification condition. Forwarding is performed (step S227).

On the other hand, the mail distribution management server 110 when the deletion (S221) or forwarding (S215, S227) for the mail received from the outside through the above-described process is completed, the processing result for the received mail, that is, the sender address , The mail subject, the processing contents (such as deletion or forwarding), the forwarding address, and the processing time are recorded in the processing result DB 150 (step S229) so that the user can confirm this later.

As a result, according to the present embodiment, the mail received by the user can be automatically deleted or distributed to a specific mail server according to the filtering conditions set by the user.

On the other hand, the above embodiments and drawings are merely for the purpose of describing the contents of the present invention in detail, and are not intended to limit the technical scope of the invention, the present invention also has a general knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs Various substitutions, modifications and variations are possible within the technical scope of the invention.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to automatically classify and forward mail received to the user based on filtering conditions set by the user, thereby providing an improved mail service to the user. In addition, forwarding mail is distributed and forwarded to a plurality of external mail servers owned by the user, thereby effectively utilizing the mail usage quota set for each external mail account.

Claims (10)

In the mail distribution management system for classifying and forwarding mail based on a condition set by a user, External account DB for storing information about at least one external mail account owned by the user; A filtering DB that receives and stores filtering conditions for classifying mail received from the outside and selectively forwarding the mail to the external mail account; A processing result DB for storing the processing result for the received mail; When the mail for the user is received from the outside, the received mail is classified and forwarded to an external mail account corresponding to the classified result based on the filtering condition, and the processing result of the received mail is processed. Mail distribution management system that includes a mail distribution management server to record in the result DB. The method of claim 1, The filtering condition stored in the filtering DB further includes a mail deletion condition for deleting the received mail. And the mail distribution management server automatically deletes the received mail when the mail received from the outside meets the deletion condition. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The external account DB, and further records the forwarding order for the most recently forwarded external mail account of each external mail account, The mail distribution management server forwards the received mail to an external mail account of the next order based on the forwarding order and updates and forwards the forwarding order when the mail received from the outside does not meet the filtering condition. Mail distribution management system, characterized in that. The method of claim 3, wherein The filtering condition and the deletion condition may include at least one of a keyword, a sender address, a mail size, a transmission time, an attachment file, and a type of the attachment file for the subject or content of the mail. Mail distribution management system. The method of claim 4, wherein The processing result recorded in the processing result DB, at least one or more of the sender address, the mail subject, whether deleted or forwarded, the forwarding address and the processing time for the received mail. In the mail distribution management system to classify and forward mail based on a condition set by a user, A first step of receiving and storing a classification condition and a deletion condition for classifying or deleting the received mail from a user; A second step of extracting a recipient ID from the received mail and determining whether an external mail account corresponding to the recipient ID is preset when a mail is received from the outside; A third step of returning the received mail if the external mail account is not set, and searching for the classification condition or the deletion condition corresponding to the recipient ID if the external mail account is set; If the classification condition or the deletion condition is not found, the received mail is forwarded to an external mail account corresponding to a predetermined order. If the classification condition or the deletion condition is found, the received mail is the classification condition or the message. A fourth step of checking whether the deletion condition is met; A fifth step of forwarding processing to an external mail account corresponding to the classification condition if the received mail meets the classification condition, and deleting the received mail if the received mail is met; And a sixth step of recording a processing result of the received mail. The method of claim 6, The second step, A twenty-first step of extracting a receiver ID from the received mail when an external rotor mail is received; A twenty-second step of determining whether the receiver ID is an ID registered in the mail distribution management system; A twenty-third step of returning the received mail when the recipient ID is not an ID registered in the mail distribution management system; If the recipient ID is an ID registered in the mail distribution management system, determining whether or not an external mail account corresponding to the recipient ID is preset. The method of claim 6, The fourth step, And if the classification condition or the deletion condition is not found, forwarding the received mail to an external mail account in a sequence corresponding to the most recently forwarded external mail account. The method of claim 6, The classification condition and the deletion condition may include at least one of a keyword, a sender address, a mail size, a transmission time, an attachment file, and a type of the attachment file for the subject and contents of the mail. How to manage mail distribution. The method of claim 6, The processing result recorded in the sixth step may include at least one of a sender address, a mail subject, whether to delete or forward the received mail, a forwarding address, and a processing time. .