TECHNIQUES FOR SPECIFYING RECIPIENTS IN AN ELECTRONIC MAIL (EMAIL) SYSTEM
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1. A machine-implemented method, comprising:
- detecting a rule in a send field of an electronic mail message (email);
processing the rule to identify one or more recipient email addresses for the email; and
modifying the send field by replacing the rule with the one or more recipient email addresses.
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Abstract
Techniques for specifying recipients in an electronic email (email) system are presented. A sender of an email includes a rule in a sender field of the email, rather than a recipient address, an alias address book identifier, or a distribution list identifier. The rule is evaluated to dynamically identify multiple recipient email addresses for the email. The multiple recipient email addresses then replace the rule included within the sender field and the email is sent over a network to recipients associated with the multiple recipient email addresses.
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1. A machine-implemented method, comprising:
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detecting a rule in a send field of an electronic mail message (email); processing the rule to identify one or more recipient email addresses for the email; and modifying the send field by replacing the rule with the one or more recipient email addresses. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A machine-implemented method, comprising:
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determining that an electronic email message (email) constructed by a sender includes a rule rather than a predefined recipient or predefined set of recipients; evaluating the rule by checking an attribute limitation defined in the rule and locating one or more recipient email address having a same attribute limitation; and removing the rule and replacing the rule with the one or more located recipient email addresses. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system, comprising:
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an electronic mail message (email) residing in a machine-accessible and computer-readable medium and accessible to and preprocessed by a recipient resolving service that executes on a machine; the recipient resolving service implemented in a machine-accessible and computer-readable medium and to process on the machine; wherein the recipient resolving service dynamically resolves multiple recipient email addresses by evaluating a rule defined in one or more send fields of metadata associated with the email and replaces the rule with the multiple recipient email address within the metadata before sending the email over a network. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system, comprising:
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an electronic mail message (email) client implemented in a machine-accessible and computer-readable medium and is to process on a client machine; and an email server implemented in a machine-accessible and computer-readable medium and is to process on a server machine; wherein the email client receives emails from a sender having rules defined in send fields of those emails and cooperates with the email server to evaluate the rules and dynamically replace the rules in the send fields with recipient email addresses before forwarding the emails from the sender to recipients associated with the recipient email addresses. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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