E-mail forwarding system having archival database
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- receiving, from a sender, at a computer remotely disposed from the sender, via e-mail, a message identified as undeliverable for being addressed to a defunct e-mail address, said sender and said remote computer having e-mail addresses, and said remote computer having an e-mail address different than said sender'"'"'s e-mail address;
parsing the defunct e-mail address from the message in the remote computer to determine whether there is a subscriber account associated with the defunct email address and if there is a forwarding e-mail address associated with the defunct e-mail address; and
storing at the remote computer at least the defunct e-mail address and the sender'"'"'s e-mail address based on a determination that there is no subscriber account associated with the defunct e-mail address.
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Abstract
A method for forwarding an e-mail message from a disfavored e-mail address to a forwarding e-mail address via a remote e-mail forwarding computer having a unique e-mail address. An e-mail message is sent from a user to the remote e-mail forwarding computer. The remote e-mail forwarding computer parses the intended e-mail address from the e-mail message to determine if there is a disfavored e-mail address associated with the intended e-mail address. The e-mail message is sent from the remote computer to a computer associated with at least one forwarding address if there is determined at least one disfavored e-mail address is associated with the intended e-mail address. If there is not a determined forwarding e-mail address than the remote computer stores at least the disfavored e-mail in archival for forwarding in the event a forwarding address is subsequently stored in the remote computer which is associated with the disfavored e-mail address.
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21 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, from a sender, at a computer remotely disposed from the sender, via e-mail, a message identified as undeliverable for being addressed to a defunct e-mail address, said sender and said remote computer having e-mail addresses, and said remote computer having an e-mail address different than said sender'"'"'s e-mail address; parsing the defunct e-mail address from the message in the remote computer to determine whether there is a subscriber account associated with the defunct email address and if there is a forwarding e-mail address associated with the defunct e-mail address; and storing at the remote computer at least the defunct e-mail address and the sender'"'"'s e-mail address based on a determination that there is no subscriber account associated with the defunct e-mail address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An article of manufacture including a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:
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receiving, from a sender via e-mail, a message identified as undeliverable for being addressed to a defunct e-mail address, said sender and said computing device having e-mail addresses, and said computing device having an e-mail address different than said sender'"'"'s e-mail address; parsing the defunct e-mail address from the message to determine if there is a subscriber account including a forwarding e-mail address, stored in the computing device, wherein the subscriber account is associated with the defunct e-mail address; and storing at least the defunct e-mail address and the sender'"'"'s e-mail address if it is determined that there is no subscriber account including the forwarding e-mail address associated with the defunct e-mail address. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus comprising:
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a memory; a receiver, coupled to the memory, to receive, from a sender, an e-mail message previously identified as undeliverable for being addressed to a defunct e-mail address, said sender and said apparatus having e-mail addresses, and said apparatus having an e-mail address different than said sender'"'"'s e-mail address; a processor, communicatively coupled to the receiver and memory; and a plurality of programming instructions stored on the memory, which when executed, enable the processor to; parse the defunct e-mail address from the e-mail message and determine whether there is a subscriber account associated with the defunct email address and if there is a forwarding e-mail associated with the defunct e-mail address; and store at least the defunct e-mail address and the sender'"'"'s e-mail address in the memory based on a determination that there is no subscriber account associated with the defunct e-mail address. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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