Simultaneous synchronous split-domain email routing with conflict resolution
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1. A method of transferring an electronic message, the method comprising:
- receiving an electronic message with an associated destination address;
associating a first delivery address and a second delivery address with the destination address, wherein the first delivery address is different from the second delivery address;
transmitting the external electronic message toward the first delivery address; and
transmitting the external electronic message toward the second delivery address.
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Abstract
An email address may be associated with more than one inbox on more than one server. An email sent to such an address may not be delivered automatically to all the inboxes because mail transfer agents follow a rule that each email address is uniquely associated with one inbox on one server, so such agents stop after delivering email to the first inbox. A switching mail transfer agent processes email to deliver to more than one inboxes associated with the address substantially synchronously and substantially without duplicates being delivered to the same inbox.
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21 Claims
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1. A method of transferring an electronic message, the method comprising:
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receiving an electronic message with an associated destination address; associating a first delivery address and a second delivery address with the destination address, wherein the first delivery address is different from the second delivery address; transmitting the external electronic message toward the first delivery address; and transmitting the external electronic message toward the second delivery address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for automatically delivering via a network an email having a recipient address associated with more than one inbox on one or more servers to inboxes associated with the recipient address, the method comprising the steps of:
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transmitting the email from a first mail transfer agent to a switching mail transfer agent before delivering the email to the recipient address; creating a copy of the email for each inbox associated with the recipient address; applying one or more email delivery policies to each copy of the email; and delivering the email automatically to inboxes associated with the recipient address. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A switching mail transfer agent comprising machine readable instructions that when executed by a machine cause the machine to perform functions comprising:
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determine whether an email is a non-duplicate or tagged as a duplicate; drop any email tagged as a duplicate; identify the destination address of non-duplicate email; determine whether non-duplicate email is spam and tag email determined to be spam as spam; match destination address of non-duplicate email with one or more delivery policies; derive delivery addresses for non-duplicate email based on one or more matched policies; create one or more copy of non-duplicate email; and deliver non-duplicate email to more than one delivery address. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A network comprising:
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one or more local mail transfer agents; one or more non-local mail transfer agents networked with at least one of the local mail transfer agents; one or more switching mail transfer agents networked with at least one of the local and at least one of the non-local mail transfer agents; and at least one policy database accessible by at least one of the switching mail transfer agent; wherein an email received by one of the switching mail transfer agents is copied, tagged, associated with a delivery policy from the policy database and delivered to at least one of the local and at least one of the non-local mail transfer agents with duplicate prevention. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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