Providing Information Regarding Mailing List Aliases

• US 20080208981A1
• Filed: 02/28/2007
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Mizrachi, Boaz, Goldberg, Itzhack, Nagin, Kenneth, Medini, Yotam
• Application Number:
  US11/680,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20080208981A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A method for providing information regarding mailing list aliases, the method including displaying an email message including at least one mailing list alias, and displaying an email address of a recipient of the email message in association with the mailing list alias.

Claims

1. A method for providing information regarding mailing list aliases, the method comprising:

displaying an email message including at least one mailing list alias; and

displaying an email address of a recipient of said email message in association with said mailing list alias.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said displaying said email address comprises displaying if said email address is mapped to said mailing list alias.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein said displaying said email address comprises displaying said email address in propinquity to said mailing list alias.

4. The method according to claim 1 and further comprising:

receiving said email message including a plurality of said mailing list aliases; and

requesting an indication as to which of said mailing list alias is associated with said recipient'"'"'s email address.

5. The method according to claim 4 wherein said requesting comprises requesting upon detecting said multiple mailing list aliases as a destination of said email message.

6. The method according to claim 4 wherein said requesting comprises requesting upon detecting the pressing of a button designated to trigger said request.

7. A method for providing information regarding mailing list aliases, the method comprising:

displaying an email message including at least one mailing list alias; and

displaying said mailing list alias in a predefined manner that indicates that said mailing list alias is mapped to an email address of a recipient of said email message.

8. The method according to claim 7 wherein said displaying said mailing list alias in said predefined manner comprises displaying if said email address is mapped to said mailing list alias.

9. The method according to claim 7 and further comprising:

receiving said email message including a plurality of said mailing list aliases; and

requesting an indication as to which of said mailing list alias is associated with said recipient'"'"'s email address.

10. The method according to claim 9 wherein said requesting comprises requesting upon detecting said multiple mailing list aliases as a destination of said email message.

11. The method according to claim 9 wherein said requesting comprises requesting upon detecting the pressing of a button designated to trigger said request.

12. A system for providing information regarding mailing list aliases, the system comprising:

an alias detector configured to detect at least one mailing list alias in an email message received by a recipient; and

an alias display controller configured to display an email address of a recipient of said email message in association with said mailing list alias.

13. The system according to claim 12 wherein said alias display controller is configured to display said email address if said email address is mapped to said mailing list alias.

14. The system according to claim 12 wherein said alias display controller is configured to display said email address in propinquity to said mailing list alias.

15. The system according to claim 12 wherein said alias detector is configured to request an indication as to which of said mailing list alias is associated with said recipient'"'"'s email address.

16. The system according to claim 15 wherein said alias detector is configured to make said request upon detecting said multiple mailing list aliases as a destination of said email message.

17. The system according to claim 15 wherein said alias detector is configured to make said request upon detecting the pressing of a button designated to trigger said request.

18. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable storage medium, the computer program comprising:

a first code segment operative to display an email message including at least one mailing list alias; and

a second code segment operative to display an email address of a recipient of said email message in association with said mailing list alias.