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Electronic mail forwarding system and method

  • US 6,138,146 A
  • Filed: 09/29/1997
  • Issued: 10/24/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a private network having a server, a fixed computer and a router for connection to a public network external to the private network, all interconnected via a data connection, the server controlling electronic mail resources addressed to a user of the fixed computer received by the private network, a mail forwarding system comprising:

  • a mail forwarding program operating in the fixed computer for controlling the fixed computer to selectively and automatically, without user intervention, (a) retrieve electronic mail resources addressed to the user of the fixed computer from the private network and (b) transmit the retrieved electronic mail resources via the router to an assigned address in the public network accessible by a communicator remote from the private network.

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