KR20010056503A - Automatic notification method on arrival of new mail in web mail service - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for automatically notifying the arrival of mail in a web-mail service is provided to realize the automatic transmission of the digest about the mail arrived to the second mail address. CONSTITUTION: In the automatic mail notification method applied to the web-mail service system, with respect to new mail arrived to a user who did not set up the mail forward function, the web-mail server checks that there is another mail address of the user in the web. With respect to the user who has another mail address, a notification mail is transmitted to the other mail address of the user so that the mail arrival of the user is notified to the web-mail server.

Description

AUTOMATIC NOTIFICATION METHOD ON ARRIVAL OF NEW MAIL IN WEB MAIL SERVICE}

The present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium recording a method for automatically notifying mail arrival and a program for realizing the method in a webmail service. In particular, the present invention provides automatic notification of mail arrival to a user, but overloads the mail server. A computer that records the method of automatic notification of mail arrival and the program for realizing the method in the webmail service, which can bring profits in terms of profitability (page views, number of users, advertisement attraction, etc.) of the webmail service site without making it possible. The present invention relates to a readable recording medium.

A forward file, which is a term used in the description of the present invention, refers to a forward file set for each user when a new mail arrives on the mail server, and if there is an e-mail address specified in the file. It is not stored in the Inbox, but is sent directly to the address.

The advantage of the mail service provided in the Internet web environment is that a web browser can be used to read, write, and send mail to the service provider's website anytime, anywhere, without a personal computer or UNIX mail account. Can be.

However, this has the limitation that it is not possible to check whether the mail has arrived at it before directly accessing the mail service site.

That is, it corresponds to a mail user agent (MUA) that supports e-mail protocol 3 (POP3: Post Office Protocol 3) such as "Microsoft Outlook Express", "Udora", "Netscape Mail", etc. Like the local mail client program, there is a problem in that it does not have a function to automatically check mail periodically and notify a new sound when it arrives with a specific sound or display (such as a flag).

Without the automatic notification function, the user side had to access it manually by hand periodically, so he felt uncomfortable to use, and in the case of urgent mail, the effect as a communication tool was halved.

In the mail server side, a specific common gateway interface (CGI) process is executed every time a user accesses, and thus, an unnecessary workload is generated because a connection is required to a database (DB) for authentication.

Therefore, Webmail needed a way to compensate for it.

Some webmail services have a service called "Peepimail" that notifies each user of a new mail when it arrives to the user's mobile phone or pager, and a POP service that downloads the mail to the user's personal computer. There are some companies that provide, but this causes an excessive load on the server, a feature not unique to webmail, and reduces the access opportunity to the webmail site, so there is a problem that cannot be a fundamental solution.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the problems described above, the automatic mail arrival method and the method in the web mail service to generate a digest for the mail upon each user automatically sent to the secondary mail address It is an object of the present invention to provide a computer-readable recording medium that records a program for realization.

1 is an exemplary configuration diagram of a mail system in a network environment to which the present invention is applied.

Figure 2 is a flow chart of an embodiment of the automatic notification mail generation and delivery process upon arrival of the present invention.

Figure 3 is an embodiment flow diagram for the automatic authentication and mail content retrieval process upon arrival of the notification mail according to the present invention.

4 is an exemplary view of a notification mail used in the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10: webmail server 11: user secondary mail server

12: Mail User Agent 101: ProcMail

102: file system 103: user database

104: Advertising database

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an automatic mail arrival notification method applied to a web mail service system, wherein a web mail server has a different mail address for a new mail arrived at a user whose mail forward function is not set. A first step of confirming the existence; And a second step of notifying the webmail server that the mail of the user has arrived by transmitting a notification mail to the other mail address of the user to the user having another mail address.

In addition, the present invention provides a webmail service system having a large capacity processor, comprising: a first function of checking, by a webmail server, whether a new mail address of a user exists for a new mail that arrives at a user who has not set a mail forward function; And sending a notification mail to the other mail address of the user for the user having a different mail address, thereby reading a program for realizing a second function of informing the webmail server that the mail of the user has arrived. Provide a recording medium.

According to the present invention, when a mail arrives for each user, a digest for the mail is generated and a user database (DB) information is searched to add advertisements according to the characteristics of each user so as to automatically generate a notification mail, and to the user's secondary mail address. By automatic transmission, the arrival of the mail is immediately informed to the user in an economical way, and the automatic authentication process allows convenient access to the mail site for checking the mail.

The above objects, features and advantages will become more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is an exemplary configuration diagram of a mail system in a network environment to which the present invention is applied.

The mail system to which the present invention is applied comprises a web mail server 10, a user secondary mail server 11, and a mail user agent 12.

The web mail server 10 includes a Procmail 101, a file system 102 with a user-specific mailbox, a user database 103, and an advertisement database 104. FIG.

When new mail arrives at the webmail server 10, Procmail (101) checks the existence of the forward file for the received mail, and the forward file exists and the user's secondary mail address is recorded in the forward file. If so, the mail is sent to the secondary mail address, and if the forward file does not exist, the mail is stored in the mailbox of the file system 102.

Procmail 101 reads secondary e-mail addresses from the user database 103, which stores information such as user's gender, hobbies, and secondary e-mail addresses, and displays advertisements according to user information or characteristics. Extracted from 104, a notification mail is generated informing that the mail has arrived.

Procmail 101 sends the generated notification mail to the user's secondary mail address, and the user's secondary mail server 11 receives it. The secondary mail server 11 of the user who supports POP3 sends the mail to the mail user agent 12 so that the user can confirm it.

Figure 2 is a flow diagram of an embodiment of the automatic notification mail generation and transmission process upon arrival of the mail according to the present invention.

The procedure to automatically generate and send notification mail in Procmail of webmail server is as follows.

When a new mail arrives at the webmail user (201), Procmail searches the user's mailbox directory and checks for the existence of a forward (.forward) file (202).

As a result, if there is a forward (.forward) file is set as automatic forwarding is sent to the forwarding address without storing in the inbox (Inbox) (203).

As a result of the check, if there is no forward (.forward) file, it is checked whether the secondary mail address exists in the user database 103 (204).

As a result of the check, if the secondary mail address does not exist, the received mail is stored in the user's inbox (205).

As a result of the check, if the secondary mail address exists, it is stored in the inbox and automatically generates a notification mail (206). The format of the notification mail is:

-Mail arrival notification message + subject of newly arrived mail

-Form to receive information input for automatic user authentication

-Ad image for target marketing selected according to user information analysis

The notification mail is sent to the retrieved user's secondary e-mail address (207).

3 is a flowchart illustrating an automatic authentication and mail content retrieval process upon arrival of a notification mail according to the present invention.

When the notification mail arrives, the user performs the following processing.

Upon receiving the notification mail, the user reads the summary information (subject and sender) of the arrival mail, and ignores it if they do not want to read the arrival mail immediately.

If the user wants to read the mail sent to the webmail site immediately, enter the ID and password and click the Done button. When the Done button is pressed, the corresponding Common Gateway Interface (CGI) process is executed on the mail server, and user authentication is automatically performed using a previously entered ID and password.

If the authentication is successful, the web browser is displayed and the mail contents page is displayed.

This will be described according to the flow shown in FIG. 3.

First, when a notification mail arrives at the user's mail agent indicating that the mail has arrived at the webmail service in use by the user (301), the user reads the sent advertisement and mail digest (302), and the user connects to the webmail server. In step 303, it is checked whether the received mail is read.

As a result of the check, if the user does not read the mail arriving at the webmail server, the processing according to the automatic notification of mail arrival at the webmail service is terminated.

As a result of the check, if the user reads the mail arrived at the webmail server, the user inputs the ID and password and clicks the Done button to send the information generated by the user to the read mail to the webmail server. Pass 304.

The webmail server authenticates the user with the input information (305), and drives the web browser to display the mail screen to the user (306).

4 is an exemplary view of a notification mail used in the present invention.

The notification mail informing that the mail of the user has arrived at the webmail server may be configured as shown in the drawing.

Mail digest, which is a summary of the mail arrived in the notification mail, an attached advertisement according to the user's information stored in the webmail server, and an authentication form for processing authentication when the user wants to read the mail.

The present invention described above is not limited to the above-described embodiments and the accompanying drawings, and various substitutions, modifications, and changes can be made in the art without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be apparent to those of ordinary knowledge.

As described above, the present invention can increase the profitability of the website because it can send an advertisement or the like while notifying the user of the mail arrival to the secondary mail address immediately through the automatic notification of the mail arrival of the web mail server. .

In addition, the present invention, without having to go through a number of steps from the user's point of view, if you enter the minimum information (ID, password) for authentication on the arrived mail screen immediately read the newly arrived mail, so you do not feel any inconvenience to the outside Webmail service can be used like a user's mail agent.

In addition, the present invention, by analyzing the personal information such as hobbies, interests, age, gender, address of the user database (DB) attached to the target advertisement for each user is sent to help in terms of profit, and eventually to read the mail Is required to visit the website, so you can expect the effect of avoiding unnecessary overload of the mail server while maintaining the page views of the website. This automatic notification of mail arrival is currently available in many webmail service sites in the Internet web environment. It works.

Claims (5)

In the automatic mail arrival notification method applied to the webmail service system, A first step of the webmail server confirming whether another mail address of the user exists for the new mail that has arrived to the user whose mail forwarding function is not set; And A second step of notifying the webmail server that the user's mail has been received by sending a notification mail to the other mail address of the user for the user having another mail address; Automatic notification of mail arrival in the webmail service comprising a. The method of claim 1, A third step of receiving information for accessing the webmail server from the user who has confirmed that the mail of the user has arrived at the webmail server through the notification mail, and performing authentication of the user; And A fourth step of providing the arrival mail information stored in the webmail server so that the webmail server can check the mail arrived at the authenticated user. Automatic notification of mail arrival in the webmail service further comprises a. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The notification mail, Method for automatic arrival of mail in a webmail service, comprising a summary of arrival mail, advertisement information, and an authentication form for accessing the webmail server. In a webmail service system having a large processor, A first function for the webmail server to check whether a different mail address of the user exists for new mail that has arrived at the user whose mail forward function is not set; And A second function of notifying the webmail server that the user's mail has been received by sending a notification mail to the other mail address of the user for the user having a different mail address; A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for realizing this. The method of claim 4, wherein A third function of receiving information for accessing the webmail server from the user who has confirmed that the mail of the user has arrived at the webmail server through the notification mail, and performing authentication of the user; And A fourth function of providing the arrival mail information stored in the webmail server so that the webmail server can check the mail arrived at the authenticated user. A computer-readable recording medium that records a program for further realization.