WO2012119445A1

WO2012119445A1 - Method and system for configuring e-mail account

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Publication number: WO2012119445A1
Application number: PCT/CN2011/079860
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张菊
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2011-03-04
Filing date: 2011-09-20
Publication date: 2012-09-13
Also published as: CN102104843A

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and system for configuring an e-mail account. The method is applicable in a mobile terminal and comprises: acquiring and saving a mail server parameter; during a process of creating a new e-mail account, if the e-mail server parameter corresponding to the e-mail address is found, on the basis of a mail server domain name of the e-mail address, in the mail server parameter acquired, saving the mail server parameter found as account information of the e-mail address. Employment of the present invention allows the creation of an e-mail account by the user having to enter only a small amount of information (such as entering the e-mail address and password), all other necessary information of the account is generated automatically, thus reducing user operation, and providing the user with a convenient and effective method for creating the e-mail account.

Description

Method and system for configuring email account

Technical field

The invention belongs to the field of mobile communications, and in particular relates to a method and system for configuring an email account.

Background technique

E-mail (E-mail) is also known as e-mail. It is a means of communication that uses electronic means to provide information exchange and is the most commonly used service on multiple networks around the world. This non-interactive communication method accelerates the communication of information and the transmission of data, and is an easy and fast communication method.

For mobile terminals, only high-end mobile phones were initially equipped with e-mail services. With the development of the communication industry, competition between major operators and communication equipment providers has become increasingly fierce. In order to attract more customers, many low-end and mid-range mobile phones have begun to configure e-mail services, and more and more users of e-mail services.

In order to use e-mail services to send and receive mail on mobile phones, establishing a valid e-mail account is the first step. At present, for the configuration of the e-mail account on the mobile terminal device, the user is required to input a large amount of information on the corresponding client, and many users are not sure how to fill in, and the steps of configuring the account are very complicated. I have successfully configured an e-mail account on some mobile phones, and I still have problems connecting to the server when I use the client to send and receive mail. In addition, some mobile phones do not support the configuration of some special email accounts (such as hotmail mailbox, etc.).

Since the mail service providers of e-mails are numerous in the world, there are many kinds of corresponding mail servers, and various mail server setting methods are different. It is difficult to effectively configure the e-mail accounts of each mail server. Configuring a valid email account is the first step for users to use email services on mobile devices. Although there is now the Over the Air Technology (OTA) mode, users who need to configure an email account only need to send a text message to apply for the mobile phone mailbox service to the operator. However, this method can only be configured with a fixed type. E-mail accounts of mail servers, not every user is happy to use such mailboxes. Summary of the invention

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method and system for configuring an e-mail account so that a majority of mobile phone users can easily use the e-mail service.

In order to solve the above problem, the present invention provides a method for configuring an e-mail account, which is applied to a mobile terminal, and includes:

Obtaining and saving the mail server parameter; in the process of creating a new email account, if the mail server parameter corresponding to the email address is found in the mail server parameter obtained according to the mail server domain name of the email address, the search is performed The incoming mail server parameters are saved as account information for the email.

Preferably, the mail server domain name of the email mailbox is obtained according to user information input by the user to log in to the email address.

Preferably, the user information input by the user for logging in to the e-mail address includes: an e-mail address and a password; wherein the mail server domain name included in the e-mail address is input by the user or the domain name is provided by the mobile terminal for the user Choose from it.

Preferably, the mail server parameters obtained by the mobile terminal at least include: a receiving server address, a receiving server port number, a receiving security setting, a receiving mail protocol type, a sending server address, a sending server port number, and a sending security setting.

Preferably, the method may further include: the mobile terminal acquiring and storing operator access point information in advance; in the process of creating a new email account, according to the user identification module information of the terminal, obtaining the obtained location In the operator access point information, the carrier access point information of the operator to which the subscriber identity module of the terminal belongs is selected, and the index of the selected operator access point information is used as the account information of the email mailbox. save.

Preferably, the obtaining the mail server parameter comprises: obtaining the mail server parameter from a mail service support server on the network side.

Correspondingly, the present invention further provides a configuration system for an email account, comprising: a first device, configured to: acquire and save a mail server parameter;

a second device, configured to: in the process of creating a new email account, if the mail server domain name is found according to the email server, the email server pair is found in the obtained mail server parameter The mail server parameter of the application is saved as the account information of the email address.

Preferably, the first device is further configured to: the obtained mail server parameters at least include: a receiving server address, a receiving server port number, a receiving security setting, a receiving mail protocol type, a sending server address, a sending server port number, and sending Security Settings.

Preferably, the above system further comprises a third device:

The first device is further configured to: acquire and save operator access point information in advance;

The third device is further configured to: in the process of creating a new email account, select a user identification module of the terminal from the obtained operator access point information according to the user identification module information of the system. The carrier access point information of the operator belongs to, and the index of the selected operator access point information is saved as the account information of the email mailbox.

Preferably, the first device is further configured to: obtain the mail server parameter, including: obtaining the mail server parameter from a mail service support server on the network side. After using the invention, the user only needs to input a small amount of information (such as inputting an email address and password) to create an email account, and other necessary information of the account is automatically generated, which reduces user operations and creates an email account for the user. Provides a convenient and effective method.

BRIEF abstract

1 is a flowchart of a method for configuring an email account in an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a schematic diagram of a user information input interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a schematic diagram of a mail service provider selection interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a user receiving a mail server receiving address and sending address according to an embodiment of the present invention; Interface diagram;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a process for automatically configuring an email account for a mobile terminal in an application example of the present invention. Preferred embodiment of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the features in the embodiments and the embodiments in the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other.

In this embodiment, the method for configuring an e-mail account is applied to the mobile terminal, as shown in FIG. 1 , including:

Step 10. Obtain and save the mail server parameters.

Step 20: In the process of creating a new email account, if the mail server parameter corresponding to the email address is found from the obtained mail server parameter according to the mail server domain name of the email mailbox, the found mail server parameter is used as The account information of the email address is saved. The mail server domain name of the email box may be obtained according to the user information input by the user to log in to the email address. The user information that the user enters to log in to the email address includes: Mailbox address and password. The interface for entering user information is shown in Figure 2. The mail server domain name in the email address (that is, the information following the "@" in the email address) may be input by the user or some domain name may be provided by the terminal for the user to select from. As shown in FIG. 3, the mobile terminal provides an alternative mail service provider list for the user to select; when the user selects a service provider, it is equivalent to selecting the mail server domain name corresponding to the service provider. The parameter information of the mail server includes at least: a receiving server address, a receiving server port number, a receiving security setting, a receiving mail protocol type, a sending server address, a sending server port number, and a sending security setting.

In addition, the mobile terminal may also acquire and save the operator access point information in advance; in the process of creating a new email account, the user identification module of the terminal (such as a Subscriber Identity Model (SIM) card, Information of a user identity module (UIM) card, etc., selecting operator access point information of the operator to which the subscriber identity module of the terminal belongs, from the operator access point information, and selecting the selected operation The index of the quotient access point information is saved as the account information of the e-mail. According to the above two steps, you can complete the configuration of an email account. The user needs to input less information, and other information is automatically generated, which greatly simplifies the user's operation.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the network side is provided with a mail service supporting server. The mobile terminal can obtain parameter information of the mail server and operator access point information from the mail service supporting server.

In another embodiment of the present invention, in step 20, the user inputting the user information required to log in to the e-mail, that is, the user interaction phase, may specifically include the following steps: the user first selects a new account on the mobile terminal. Start the new email wizard process. Next, select the mail server domain name of the email address you want to create from the mail server list interface provided by the mobile terminal. If you select a mail server domain name from it, enter the email setting interface. In the email setting interface, the user can enter the content and password in front of the "@" symbol according to the default email address format, and then click OK to enter the automated processing stage. If the user does not select the determined mail server domain name in the mail server list interface (such as selecting another mail service provider in the interface shown in Figure 3), after completing the email address and password, enter the email address setting interface, and then click OK. Will enter the transceiver server settings interface, as shown in Figure 4. In the sending and receiving server setting interface, after the user inputs the receiving server address and the sending server address, after the user clicks OK, the user enters the automatic processing stage. The user name is obtained according to the mail server selected by the user or the address of the sending and receiving server input by the user, and the parameter setting of the corresponding mail server is obtained from the mail server parameter table, and the mailbox service is selected from the operator's access point parameters according to the SIM card information. Access point and save its index to the account.

For the e-mail address of the e-mail domain that has been provided on the mobile terminal, the user only needs to input the e-mail address and password to complete the configuration of the e-mail account, and other parameter information in the account information is automatically generated; for other e-mail addresses that do not provide the e-mail domain name, The user only needs to input the receiving server address and the sending server address to complete the configuration of the email account, and other parameter information in the account information can also be automatically generated according to the default information. The network access point parameters of the account are automatically set based on the SIM card information.

In this embodiment, a configuration system for an email account includes: a first device, configured to acquire and save a mail server parameter;

a second device, in the process of creating a new email account, if the mail server parameter corresponding to the email server is found from the obtained mail server parameter according to the mail server domain name of the email address, the search is performed The mail server parameters are saved as account information for the email address.

Preferably, the user information input by the user for logging in to the e-mail address includes: an e-mail address and a password; wherein, the mail server domain name included in the e-mail address is input by the user or some domain name is provided by the mobile terminal. For the user to choose from.

Preferably, the mail server parameters obtained by the first device at least include: a receiving server address, a receiving server port number, a receiving security setting, a receiving mail protocol type, a sending server address, a sending server port number, and a sending security setting.

Preferably, the above system further comprises a third device:

The first device is further configured to acquire and save operator access point information in advance;

The third device is configured to select, according to the user identification module information of the system, the operation of the user identification module of the terminal from the obtained operator access point information in the process of creating the new email account. The operator's access point information is stored, and the index of the selected operator access point information is saved as the account information of the email.

Preferably, the first device is configured to obtain the mail server parameter, and the method includes: the first device is configured to acquire the mail server parameter from a mail service support server on the network side.

The method for configuring the mailbox account proposed by the present invention will be further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In this application example, the configuration method of the email account includes the following specific steps: Step 1. Parameter acquisition phase

Step 1 丄 The mobile terminal connects to the mail service support server, and obtains a file that stores the parameters of the mail server and the parameters of the operator access point;

Step 1.2. Parse the obtained file, generate mail server parameter table and carrier access point Parameters Table.

Step 2. User accounting stage

Step 2.1. The user selects a new account and enters the wizard process of creating a new email account, that is, the mail service provider selection interface;

Step 2.2. In the mail service provider selection interface, select the email service provider to which the account is to be created. After selecting any item, you will enter the email setting interface;

Step 2.3. On the Email Settings screen, enter your email address and password, then click OK. If you selected the operator's customized email service provider in step 2.2, go directly to step 3. If you choose another email service provider, you will be taken to step 2.4.

Step 2.4. In the mail server setting interface, enter the receiving server address and the sending server address, and then click OK, proceed to step 3.

Step 3. The automated processing phase, as shown in Figure 5, includes the following steps:

Step 3.1. Set the network access point parameters of the account;

The mobile terminal first reads the SIM card information inserted by the local machine, obtains its country number (MCC) and mobile network number (MNC) information, and then adapts the mail service usage from the operator's access point parameter table according to the mobile MCC and the MNC. Access point, save the index of the access point to the account information.

Step 3.2. Automatically set the user name according to the entered email address;

Step 3.2丄 E-mail address specificity judgment. Determine whether the username of the account is specific according to the default parameters (such as the receiving server address or the sending server address) in the operator-customized mailbox service provider selected in step 2.2 or the receiving server address or sending server address entered in step 2.4. ;

Step 3.2.2. Automatically set the receiving username and sending username.

If it is determined that the username of the account is special, copy the complete email address to the receiving user name and the sending user name; otherwise, intercept the content of the email address "@" symbol to the receiving user name and sending the user name;

Step 3.3. Set the account password based on the entered password. In this step, the password information input by the user is directly copied to the receiving password and the sending password, and the password setting of the account can be completed;

Step 3.4. Receiving server and sending server settings for the account, including: Step 3.4丄 Server Address Settings.

If the mail service provider customized by the operator is selected in step 2.2, the default mail server address of the mail service provider is saved to the address of the sending and receiving server of the account. If another mail service provider is selected in step 2.2, the receiving server address and the sending server address input by the user are correspondingly saved to the receiving and sending server addresses of the account;

Step 3.4.2. Server Port Number and Security Option Settings.

If the service provider's customized mail service provider is selected in step 2.2, the default receiving server port number, the sending server port number, and the corresponding security option settings of the mailbox are searched from the mail server parameter table, and the corresponding parameters of the account are respectively saved. in. If the other mail service provider is selected in step 2.2, the corresponding receiving server port number and the receiving security option setting are matched according to the receiving server address input by the user, and the corresponding sending server port number and the sending security option setting are matched according to the input sending server address. The matching information is then saved to the corresponding parameters of the account.

Step 3.5 Save the account information to the account configuration file.

One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the above steps may be accomplished by a program instructing the associated hardware, such as a read-only memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented using one or more integrated circuits. Correspondingly, each module/unit in the above embodiment may be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of a software function module. The invention is not limited to any specific form of combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of protection of the present invention. In view of the present invention, various other modifications, equivalents, improvements, etc., should be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is included in the scope of protection of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

After using the invention, the user only needs to input a small amount of information (such as inputting an email address and password) to create an email account, and other necessary information of the account is automatically generated, which reduces user operations and creates an email account for the user. Provides a convenient and effective method.

Claims

Claim

1. A method for configuring an e-mail account, which is applied to a mobile terminal, and includes:

2. The method of claim 1 wherein

The mail server domain name of the email mailbox is obtained based on user information input by the user to log in to the email address.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein

The user information input by the user for logging in to the e-mail address includes: an e-mail address and a password; wherein the mail server domain name included in the e-mail address is input by the user or the mobile terminal provides the domain name for the user to select from.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein

The mail server parameters obtained by the mobile terminal include at least: a receiving server address, a receiving server port number, a receiving security setting, a receiving mail protocol type, a sending server address, a sending server port number, and a sending security setting.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

The mobile terminal acquires and saves operator access point information in advance;

In the process of creating a new e-mail account, the operator of the operator of the terminal is selected from the obtained operator access point information according to the information of the user identification module of the terminal. Point information, and store the selected index of the operator access point information as the account information of the email address.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein

The obtaining the mail server parameter comprises: obtaining the mail server parameter from a mail service support server on the network side.

7. A configuration system for an email account, comprising: a first device, configured to: obtain and save a mail server parameter;

a second device, configured to: in the process of creating a new email account, if the mail server parameter corresponding to the email address is found from the obtained mail server parameter according to the mail server domain name of the email address, The found mail server parameters are saved as account information of the email address.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein

9. The system of claim 8 wherein

10. The system of claim 7, wherein

The first device is further configured to: the obtained mail server parameters at least include: a receiving server address, a receiving server port number, a receiving security setting, a receiving mail protocol type, a sending server address, a sending server port number, and a sending security setting.

11. The system of claim 7 further comprising a third device:

12. The system of claim 7, wherein

The first device is further configured to: obtain the mail server parameter, including: obtaining the mail server parameter from a mail service support server on the network side.