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Method and system for email disambiguation

  • US 9,860,202 B1
  • Filed: 12/14/2016
  • Issued: 01/02/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by email processing circuitry of a mail transport agent (MTA), an inbound email message;

    parsing, by the email processing circuitry of the MTA, the inbound email message to detect that the inbound email comprises a first uniform resource locator (URL) and is intended for multiple recipients;

    in response to the detecting;

    packaging, by the email processing circuitry of the MTA, the inbound email message into the multiple outbound email messages, where each of the outbound email messages has a different SMTP envelope;

    copying, by the email processing circuitry of the MTA, content of the inbound email message to storage of the email processing circuitry;

    generating, by the email processing circuitry of the MTA, multiple uniform resource locators (URLs), where each of the multiple URLs is unique among the multiple URLs and targets the content in the storage of the email processing circuitry;

    generating, by the email processing circuitry of the MTA, multiple hypertext markup language (HTML) elements each of which comprises a respective one of the multiple URLs;

    in each of the outbound messages, replacing, by the email processing circuitry of the MTA, content of the inbound email message with a respective one of the multiple HTML elements;

    andsending, by network interface circuitry of the MTA, the multiple outbound email messages into a network using simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP).

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