Electronic mail system using double forwarding suppressing function for administrating electronic message that having data format that can not be handled at destination side
First Claim
1. A method for administrating electronic messages in linking an electronic mail systems, comprising:
- a linking system,an electronic mail system which is a forwarding side having a double forwarding-suppressing function connected to said linking system,and an electronic mail system which is the destination to which the mail message to be forwarded, and in which linking ID means controlled by the linking system are set in each of the electronic mail systems, and wherein an electronic mail message forwarded to the linking ID means from the user ID means of the electronic mail system of the forwarding side, is forwarded to a linking ID means of opposite electronic mail system of the destination to which the message to be forwarded, through the linking system, wherein at least two linking ID means are arranged at least in the electronic mail system of the forwarding side and when it is judged that the electronic mail message forwarded from electronic mail system of the forwarded side has a data format that cannot be handled by the electronic mail system of the destination side to which the message to be forwarded, the linking system of the forwarding side transmits the electronic mail message forwarded to a first linking ID means provided in the electronic mail system of the forwarding side to a second linking ID means provided in the same electronic mail system, and transmits again the electronic mail message from the second linking ID means to the user ID means of the same electronic mail system.
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for administrating electric mails in linking an electronic mail systems among electronic mail systems. The object is to hold the electronic mail message in the user ID means of the forwarding side when it is requested to forward an electronic mail message in a data format that cannot be handled by the electronic mail system of the destination of forwarding. In the method of linking electronic mail systems which forwards an electronic mail message from an electronic mail system of the forwarding side having a function for suppressing double forwarding to another electronic mail system, when the electronic mail message being forwarded is of a format that cannot be handled by the electronic mail system which is the destination of forwarding, the electronic mail message forwarded to a linking ID means in the electronic mail system of the forwarding side is transmitted to another linking ID means in the same electronic mail system, and the electronic mail message is forwarded from this another ID means to the user ID means of the forwarding side.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for administrating electronic messages in linking an electronic mail systems, comprising:
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a linking system, an electronic mail system which is a forwarding side having a double forwarding-suppressing function connected to said linking system, and an electronic mail system which is the destination to which the mail message to be forwarded, and in which linking ID means controlled by the linking system are set in each of the electronic mail systems, and wherein an electronic mail message forwarded to the linking ID means from the user ID means of the electronic mail system of the forwarding side, is forwarded to a linking ID means of opposite electronic mail system of the destination to which the message to be forwarded, through the linking system, wherein at least two linking ID means are arranged at least in the electronic mail system of the forwarding side and when it is judged that the electronic mail message forwarded from electronic mail system of the forwarded side has a data format that cannot be handled by the electronic mail system of the destination side to which the message to be forwarded, the linking system of the forwarding side transmits the electronic mail message forwarded to a first linking ID means provided in the electronic mail system of the forwarding side to a second linking ID means provided in the same electronic mail system, and transmits again the electronic mail message from the second linking ID means to the user ID means of the same electronic mail system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for administrating electronic messages in linking an electronic mail systems, comprising:
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a linking system, an electronic mail system which is the forwarding side having a double forward-suppressing function connected to the linking system, and an electronic mail system which is the destination to which the message to be forwarded, and in which linking ID means controlled by the linking system are set in each of the electronic mail systems, and wherein an electronic mail message forwarded to the linking ID means from the user ID means of the electronic mail system of the forwarding source, is forwarded to a linking ID means of opposite electronic mail system of the destination to which the message to be forwarded, through the linking system, wherein at least two linking ID means are arranged at least in the electronic mail system of the forwarding side and when it is judged that the electronic mail message forwarded from electronic mail system of the forwarded side has a data format that cannot be handled by the electronic mail system of the destination side to which the message to be forwarded, the linking system stores the electronic mail forwarded in the first linking ID means in the electronic mail system which is the forwarding side, transmits said electronic mail message to the second linking ID means in the electronic mail system which is the forwarding side such that the electronic mail message is transmitted from said second linking ID means to said first linking ID means, and then forwards said electronic mail message from said first linking ID means to the user ID means of the forwarding side. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus for linking electronic mail systems including the capability to forward a message, said system comprising:
an originating mail system forwarding to a destination mail system, the originating mail system and the destination mail system being coupled via a linking system, the originating mail system having a first linking ID unit, a second linking ID unit, a user ID unit, when it is determined that a data format of the message formed at the originating mail system is not compatible with a data format of the destination mail system, the linking system transmits the message transmitted to the first linking ID unit to the second linking ID unit, and the message from the second linking ID unit is again transmitted to the user ID unit within the originating mail system.
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13. An method of forwarding a message from an originating mail system to a destination mail system via a linking system, the originating mail system including at least two linking ID units used for suppressing double forwarding, comprising the steps of:
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(a) determining whether a data format of the message formed at the originating mail system is compatable with a data format of the destination mail system, and (b) if the data formats as determined in step (a) are not compatable, then transmitting by the linking system the message transmitted to the first linking ID unit to the second linking ID, and then transmitting the message from the second linking ID unit to the user ID unit.
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