KR20030004159A - Register By E-Mail in Broadcast Board System - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A bulletin board having an e-mail address is provided to extend a merit of the conventional bulletin board by combining the merit of an MIME(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) message with the mediocrity of the SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). CONSTITUTION: A server program extracts the e-mail address of the message by parsing a head of a message through the SMTP. The extracted e-mail address of a receiver is compared with the e-mail address corresponding to the bulletin board. If the e-mail address is valid, the message is sent to a program or a module for inputting to a database. The program receiving the message stores the head and a body in a corresponding field of the database by parsing the head and the body of the message and the message is selectively stored in the database or a hard disk.

Description

Bulletin board with email address {Register By E-Mail in Broadcast Board System}

As the Internet has a dynamic and interactive content management function in the role of unilateral information delivery, the Internet is making a great contribution to the formation of communities and creating new cultural styles. Both sides' exchange of information over time and space through the Internet has become an indispensable element in our society today.

The present invention is to name a content board on the Internet that serves as a mutual and dynamic information delivery to a number of people as a collective bulletin board, and to create a more convenient environment by adding a registration function by e-mail to the function of the bulletin board.

Existing bulletin boards can register, modify, and subscribe content using a web browser using the HTTP protocol.

However, in general, the content of the bulletin board is managed in a database. The registration of articles through HTTP is stored in the database, and when reading the contents, the web server program accesses the database and retrieves the contents and sends them to the user's web browser through the HTTP protocol.

The present invention is based on the above point, give an e-mail address to the bulletin board, when sending an email to the address, the server program that receives the message from the mail server to store the contents of the message in the database used by the bulletin board Make. In other words, in addition to registering on a web browser using the HTTP protocol, which adds data to a bulletin board database, a method of registering a post using an email program is added.

To do this, the server program analyzes messages from the corresponding port or mail server and stores them in the database.

The present invention intends to expand the advantages of the existing bulletin board by combining the advantages of the MIME message and the generality of the SMTP (ESMTP) protocol.

The present invention makes it possible to register a post on a bulletin board through the process of extracting data from a mail server using e-mail, thereby enabling the contents to be registered in various ways, and by using a MIME message method. By making it possible to register materials, we want to overcome the limitations of existing bulletin boards.

The present invention provides an email bulletin board system and method thereof for achieving the above object.

First, the e-mail bulletin board has a unique e-mail address. If you send an e-mail with this e-mail ID, it will be registered in the database through the proper authentication process, so that other users can see the contents through the bulletin board. When a user registers a message on a bulletin board, the email registration function can be used when the user does not want or cannot use the HTTP FORM method, which is a commonly used method on the web.

The present invention specifically consists of the following steps.

In the first step, the server program parses the head of the message into SMTP and extracts the recipient's email address.

Second, the extracted recipient's email address is compared with the email address corresponding to the bulletin board. If the comparison shows that the email address is valid, the message is sent to a program or module that enters the database.

Third, the program that receives the message parses the header and body of the message and stores it in the fields of the corresponding database. The original message is stored in the database or hard disk as needed.

By the above process, the e-mail message is stored in the database and the storage device.

The process of checking e-mail is almost identical to the existing bulletin board. The data that meets the user's needs is retrieved from the database and displayed as a list, and the details of the bulletin board are processed by the message stored in the database or file so that the user can view it through a browser.

As described above, the e-mail bulletin board has diversified the posting method by assigning each unique ID to the bulletin board. This allows the user to register the necessary information on the bulletin board even in a non-web browser environment on the Internet. Since most mobile environments have an email client installed, it is possible to register posts through this, which makes the current bulletin board more useful and proper.

In addition, email messages use MIME, which allows you to register posts in a wider variety of formats and content.

Claims (1)

To register a bulletin board via email, The first step of sending an e-mail to a bulletin board having an e-mail, the second step of properly analyzing and registering a message in a corresponding database, and the third step of displaying the bulletin board contents using the database. The e-mail bulletin board refers to a content service on the Internet through which one or more users can simultaneously register, modify, delete, and view. The registration, modification, and deletion functions may be limited to one person, but the viewing function is an Internet service that necessarily covers a large number.