JPH057220A - Reply mail destination setting method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To set the destination to reply mail only by designating the receiving main and to prevent the leakage even to plural reply destinations. CONSTITUTION:By a receiving mail designating means 3, the receiving mail with a reply to be an object is designated, and by a designated receiving mail retrieving means 4, the receiving mail designated from a mail box file 2 is retrieved. By a receiving mail destination information analyzing means 5, the destination information for reply is extracted from the retrieved mail. By a destination setting means 6, the destination is set from the extracted destination information. On the other hand, by a transmission mail information succeeding means 7, a parameter for transmission processing other than the destination is succeeded from the reception mail to the reply mail.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a reply mail address setting method, and more particularly to a reply mail address setting method in an electronic mail system having a mailbox file.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this kind of reply mail address setting method uses the reply destination specified in the destination if the reply destination is specified in the received mail, and the reply mail specified in the received mail if the reply destination is not specified. The sender is designated as the destination, but in any case, the receiver sets the destination and sends a reply.

[0003]

The above-mentioned conventional reply mail address setting method is used when replying an e-mail in which a plurality of reply destinations are designated, or when a reply destination is not designated and a reply is made to the sender. However, there is a drawback that the recipient may be omitted because the recipient visually specifies the destination.

[0004]

According to the reply mail address setting method of the present invention, in the reply mail address setting method of an electronic mail system having a mailbox file, a reply is received from among received mails stored in the mailbox file. The received mail specifying means for specifying the target mail, the specified received mail search means for searching the mail file specified by this received mail specification means, and the received mail searched by this specified received mail search means Receiving mail destination information analyzing means for analyzing reply destination information, destination setting means for setting the sender name and designated reply destination extracted by the receiving mail destination information analyzing means to the reply mail destination, and the receiving mail destination Transmission that takes over other transmission processing parameters as the transmission processing parameter of reply mail It constituted by having an Lumpur information takeover unit.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. Terminal 1, mailbox file 2, received mail designation means 3, designated received mail search means 4, received mail destination information analysis means 5, destination setting. It is composed of means 6 and means 7 for transmitting transmitted mail information.

The received mail designating means 3 is means for designating a mail to be sent back via the terminal 1 from among the mails that the user has already received and held in the mailbox file 2. The designated received mail search means 4 is means for searching the mailbox file 2 for the received mail designated by the received mail designation means 3. The received mail destination information analysis means 5 is means for analyzing the destination information of the mail searched by the designated received mail search means 4. Regarding the destination information analyzed by the received mail destination information analyzing means 5, the destination setting means 6 sends a reply person to the destination when the reply person is designated, and sends the received mail to the destination when the reply person is not designated. It is a means for unconditionally setting a person. The transmission mail information transfer means 7 is means for setting transmission processing information other than the information (address) set by the destination setting means 6 as a transmission mail parameter group.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a table created by the received mail destination information analysis means 5 and the destination setting means 6 of FIG. 1. In the received mail destination information analysis means 5, the received mail parameter table 21 and sender information storage. Table 22,
And the reply destination information storage table 23 is created, and the destination setting means 6 creates the sent mail parameter table 24.

Next, the processing in the configuration of FIG. 1 will be described. By the way, the received mail stored in the mailbox file 2 is erased when the recipient sees the contents of the mail and is no longer required to store it, but remains stored until then. Therefore, when the recipient tries to send a reply mail, the user first specifies the received mail number and the like by the received mail designating means 4. The designated received mail search means 4 searches the designated received mail. Next, the received mail destination information analysis means 5 analyzes the searched destination information of the received mail and receives the received mail parameter table 2
1. Create a sender information storage table 22 and a reply destination information storage table 23. The sender information storage area address of the received mail parameter table 21 indicates the sender information storage table 22, and when the reply destination is designated,
The reply destination information storage area address points to the reply destination information storage table 23. The destination setting unit 6 refers to the reception parameter table 21, and if the reply destination is designated, the reply destination name length corresponding to the number of reply destinations and the address of the reply destination information storage table 23 are respectively transmitted parameter table. The number of regular recipients and the regular recipient storage area address of 24 are set, and the number of reply destinations is set to the number of regular recipients. If the reply destination is not specified, the sender name length and the address of the sender information storage table 22 are set to the correct recipient name length and the correct recipient storage area address of the outgoing mail parameter table 24, respectively. Set 1 to the number of recipients. The transmitted mail information transfer means 7 transfers the received mail parameter group of the received mail parameter table 21 other than the correct recipient parameters set by the destination setting means 6 to the transmission parameter table 24.
It is set as a specified value in the transmission parameter table group of and the information is inherited from the received mail.

In this way, the destination setting means 6 unconditionally sets the correct recipient from the destination information of the received mail,
Since the received mail parameter group is set to the transmitted parameter group by the transmitted mail information transfer means 7, a necessary reply mail can be transmitted only by designating the received mail.

[0011]

As described above, according to the present invention, when replying to a received mail in the electronic mail system, the destination information of the received mail is analyzed only by designating the received mail, and when the reply destination is designated, Since the reply destination is set as the destination and the sender of the received mail is unconditionally set as the destination when the reply destination is not designated, it is possible to prevent leakage of the reply destination when replying.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a table created by a received mail destination information analysis unit and a destination setting unit of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Terminal 2 Mailbox File 3 Received Mail Designating Means 4 Designated Received Mail Searching Means 5 Received Mail Destination Information Analyzing Means 6 Destination Setting Means 7 Sent Mail Information Handover Means 21 Received Mail Parameter Table 22 Sender Information Storage Table 23 Reply Destination Information Storage Table 24 Outgoing mail parameter table

Claims (1)

What is claimed is: 1. In the reply mail destination setting method of an electronic mail system having a mailbox file, a reception specifying a mail to be replyed from among received mails stored in the mailbox file. A mail designating means, a designated received mail search means for searching for a mail designated by the received mail designating means from a mailbox file, and a reception for analyzing reply destination information of the received mail searched by the designated received mail search means A mail destination information analysis unit, a destination setting unit for setting the sender name and the designated reply destination extracted by the received mail destination information analysis unit as a destination of the reply mail, and a transmission processing parameter other than the destination of the received mail for the reply mail Has a transmission mail information transfer means to be transferred as a transmission processing parameter of Reply mail address setting method which is characterized the door.