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System and method for generating configurations used for accessing electronic mailboxes

  • US 8,838,702 B2
  • Filed: 12/01/2008
  • Issued: 09/16/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for generating configurations used for a user accessing electronic mailboxes comprising:

  • a storage medium including a database that stores configuration conventions used by email providers for accessing electronic mailboxes; and

    a transformer that infers an email domain from a user supplied email address, retrieves relevant configuration conventions from the database and expands the configuration conventions retrieved from the database to generate sets of possible configuration parameters to be tried for accessing an electronic mailbox of the user.

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