Method, system and server for sending and receiving e-mails with different addresses
First Claim
1. A method for keeping user'"'"'s particular outgoing e-mail correspondence separate from user'"'"'s other e-mail correspondence, characterized by the steps of:
- in the user'"'"'s e-mail client program replacing in a particular outgoing e-mail message a recipient address set by the user with the address of a mediating server, moving the recipient address into another field of the e-mail message, sending the e-mail message to the mediating server, and in the mediating server moving in the e-mail message to be forwarded the recipient address from said another field into the recipient field, and placing the address used in said particular e-mail correspondence into the sender field of the e-mail message.
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Abstract
The method makes possible to keep particular e-mails separate from other e-mails and is based upon an interaction between a plug-in program in the user'"'"'s e-mail client program and a separate mediating server. User'"'"'s private address and e-mail service address are saved in the mediating server. E-mail client program is programmed to send all private messages to the mediating server. When a message is sent the plug-in program removes the original user given recipient address on the recipient field temporarily to another field, and replaces it with the address of the mediating server. To the user the message appears to have been sent to the original recipient. The mediating server receives the messages, replaces the sender'"'"'s address with the sender'"'"'s private address in the mediating server, restores the original recipient address(es), from the other field of the message, to the recipient field(s) and sends the message to the original recipient(s).
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12 Claims
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1. A method for keeping user'"'"'s particular outgoing e-mail correspondence separate from user'"'"'s other e-mail correspondence, characterized by the steps of:
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in the user'"'"'s e-mail client program replacing in a particular outgoing e-mail message a recipient address set by the user with the address of a mediating server, moving the recipient address into another field of the e-mail message, sending the e-mail message to the mediating server, and in the mediating server moving in the e-mail message to be forwarded the recipient address from said another field into the recipient field, and placing the address used in said particular e-mail correspondence into the sender field of the e-mail message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method for keeping user'"'"'s incoming particular e-mail correspondence separate from user'"'"'s other e-mail correspondence, characterized by the steps of:
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routing an e-mail mail addressed to the user'"'"'s particular e-mail address is to a mediating server, moving in the mediating server the original sender address into other field than the address field, replacing the address in the recipient field with another address specified by the user, placing the address of the mediating server into the sender field, and retransmitting the e-mail to the address specified by the user. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for keeping user'"'"'s particular e-mail correspondence separate from user'"'"'s other e-mail correspondence, comprising:
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an e-mail client program in the user'"'"'s computer for sending and receiving e-mails, a mediating server that retransmits e-mail messages received from the user to the message'"'"'s recipient address and e-mail messages sent to the user to the user'"'"'s e-mail address characterized in that the mediating server comprises;
a database containing the user'"'"'s e-mail address in the e-mail service that he is using and the user'"'"'s address in the mediating server, means for replacing the sender address of the message received from the user with the user'"'"'s address in the mediating server, and for replacing the mediating server'"'"'s address in the recipient address field with the address or addresses of the original recipient(s) temporarily placed in another field or fields than address field of the message. means for replacing the user'"'"'s mediating server address in the receiver field of the message received to the user'"'"'s mediating server address with the user'"'"'s address in the e-mail service that he is using and for moving the sender address of the received message into another field of a message to be retransmitted, and that a plug-in program has been added to the e-mail client program, said plug-in program bein adapted to;
replace, in a message to be sent from the client program, the receiver'"'"'s address placed in the recipient address field of the message by the user with the address of the mediating server, move, in a message to be sent from the client program, the receiver'"'"'s address placed in the recipient address field of the message by the user into other field of the message than an address field, and replace, the in the message received to the client program, the original sender address placed in said other field than the address field to the sender field of the message.
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11. An e-mail mediating server in a computer network e.g. in the Internet, characterized in that the mediating server comprises:
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a database containing users'"'"' e-mail address in the e-mail service that they are using and the users'"'"' e-mail address in the mediating server, means for replacing the sender address of a message received from a user with the user'"'"'s e-mail address in the mediating server and for replacing the address of the mediating server in the receiver address field with the address of the receiver, or that of the receivers placed in another field of the message than an address field, means for replacing the user'"'"'s mediating server address in the recipient field of a message received to the mediating server with the user'"'"'s e-mail address in the e-mail service he is using and for placing the sender address of the message received to the mediating server to another field of the message than an address field in the message to be retransmitted. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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