Method and system for email notification using auto-forwarding and a lightweight mail notification sender
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1. A method of providing mail notification of a new email received at a user'"'"'s mailbox stored by a mail storage system, the method comprising:
- integrating a mail processing system with the mail storage system, said mail processing system configured to receive the new email auto-forwarded from the mail storage system and to define and send a notification email to a mail notification receiver.
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Abstract
There is provided a method and system for notifying of new email received at a user'"'"'s mailbox on a mail storage system. A mail processing system, integrated with the mail storage system, is configured to receive new email auto-forwarded from the mail storage system and to define and send a notification email to a mail notification receiver.
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19 Claims
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1. A method of providing mail notification of a new email received at a user'"'"'s mailbox stored by a mail storage system, the method comprising:
integrating a mail processing system with the mail storage system, said mail processing system configured to receive the new email auto-forwarded from the mail storage system and to define and send a notification email to a mail notification receiver. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of retrieving new email received at a user'"'"'s mailbox stored by a mail storage system, the method comprising:
integrating a mail notification receiver with a mail retrieval system, said mail notification receiver configured to trigger said mail retrieval system to retrieve said new email when said mail notification receiver receives a notification email sent in response to said new email arriving in said user'"'"'s mailbox.
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11. A mail processing system for providing mail notification of new email received at a user'"'"'s mailbox stored by a mail storage system, the mail processing system comprising:
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a communications interface for communicating email; and
a processor and a memory storing instructions and data to configure the mail processing system to receive said new email auto-forwarded from the mail storage system and to define and send a notification email to a mail notification receiver using at least some of the content of the new email. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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- 17. A computer program product having computer readable code embodied therein, for execution by a processor, for providing a notification email of new email received, at a user'"'"'s mailbox stored by a mail storage system, said code configuring the processor to define the notification email in response to the new email, using at least some of the content of the new email.
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