CN101083788B - Method and system for automatically selecting email sending account - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and system for automatically selecting an account for sending emails. The key is to pre-set an account selection condition list containing the sender's address, and when sending an email, select the sender's address according to the list of account selection conditions, and set the The address is filled in the sending account field in the email header field. By applying the present invention, the automatic selection of the mail sending account is realized, and the sending account is changed conveniently. Moreover, the existing method of manually changing the sending account is avoided, the user experience is improved, and the probability of selecting a wrong sending account is reduced at the same time.

Description

Method and system for automatically selecting email sending account

technical field

The invention relates to the technical field of mobile communication, in particular to a method and system for automatically selecting an email sending account.

Background technique

With the development of mobile communication technology, Internet applications have been extended to the field of mobile applications. The mobile communication network includes the existing 2G, 2.5G, the future 3G, and the multimedia sub-domain and so on. The third-generation mobile communication technology has accelerated the integration of the telecommunication network and the Internet. The extension of Internet applications to the mobile network has expanded the service capabilities of the mobile network, and the inherent characteristics of the mobile network have put forward new requirements for these applications.

E-mail plays an important role in Internet applications. The mobile e-mail service is an extension of traditional Internet e-mail. It supports editing and sending e-mails using mobile terminal equipment, and can seamlessly integrate with Internet e-mail services.

A user can have multiple email accounts at the same time, that is, multiple addresses for sending emails. When the user uses a mobile terminal to send emails, he can manually select different email accounts to send according to different recipients. Users can set a default email account, and send emails with the default account every time. When users have special needs, they can manually select other email accounts to send.

In practical applications, such a situation often occurs: for different recipients, the user wishes to use different addresses for sending. However, using the existing method of manually changing the sending account is not only troublesome, but also has a higher probability of making mistakes.

Have again, if the user sets up a relatively small account such as 2M as the default account, then when the user uses this account to send mails greater than 2M, an error will occur, which also increases the probability of error. Generally speaking, users don't know the specific size of the email they send, so they don't necessarily choose other mailboxes as the sending address when sending.

It can be seen that in practical applications, it is very inconvenient if the user needs to change the sending account.

Contents of the invention

In view of this, the object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for automatically selecting an email sending account, which can automatically select an email sending account.

In order to achieve the above object, technical solution of the present invention is achieved in that way:

A method for automatically selecting an email sending account, setting an account selection condition list containing the sender's address, when sending an email, selecting the sender's address according to the account selection condition list, and filling the address into the sending email header field account field.

Preferably, when sending an email, before selecting the sender's address according to the account selection condition list, the method further includes: identifying the sending account field in the header field of the email,

If there is a registered account in the sending account field, it will not be processed;

If there is a non-registered account in the sending account field or the field is empty, then perform the next steps;

If this field does not exist, perform the next steps after creating the sending account field.

Preferably, the list of account selection conditions includes the corresponding relationship between the receiver's address and the sender's address;

The process of selecting the address of the sender according to the list of account selection conditions is as follows: obtaining the address of the recipient of the email, and selecting an address corresponding to the recipient according to the correspondence between the address of the recipient and the address of the sender in the list of account selection conditions. The sender address corresponding to the address.

Preferably, the one sender address corresponds to one or more recipient addresses.

Preferably, the list of account selection conditions includes a corresponding relationship between sending time and sender's address;

The process of selecting the sender's address according to the account selection condition list is: obtaining the current time, and selecting the sender's address corresponding to the sending time according to the corresponding relationship between the sending time and the sender's address in the account selection condition list.

Preferably, the list of account selection conditions includes correspondence between email attributes and sender addresses;

The process of selecting the sender's address according to the account selection condition list is: obtaining the attribute of the email to be sent currently, and selecting the email address corresponding to the email attribute according to the correspondence between the email attribute and the sender's address in the account selection condition list. sender address.

Preferably, the mail attribute is mail size.

Preferably, after selecting the sender address according to the list of account selection conditions, the method further includes: returning the selected sender address to the mobile terminal, and performing subsequent steps after receiving confirmation information from the user.

Preferably, the method further includes: filling the selected sender's address into the reply account field in the mail header field.

Preferably, the list of account selection conditions is located in the mobile terminal, and the operation of selecting and filling in the sender's address is completed by the mobile terminal; or,

The list of account selection conditions is located in the mobile email server, and the operations of selecting and filling in the sender's address are completed by the mobile email server.

Preferably, the sending account field is a From field, and the replying account field is a Reply-To field.

Preferably, if the list of account selection conditions is located in the mobile email server, the list of account selection conditions is set through a webpage, or through a short message sending signaling, or through a voice prompt, Or set by artificial voice phone;

If the list of account selection conditions is located in the mobile terminal, it is directly set on the mobile terminal.

A system for automatically selecting email sending accounts, including a mobile terminal, a mobile email server, and one or more email servers, the mobile terminal is used to create and edit emails to be sent, and the mobile email server is used to send emails to be sent Sending mobile mail to the mail server, or sending mail from the mail server to the mobile terminal, the mail server is used to send and receive e-mail; the system also includes a sending account selection module,

The sending account selection module is used to select the sender's address according to the set account selection condition list when sending the mail, and fill the address into the sending account field in the mail header field.

Preferably, the sending account selection module includes: a mail account selection module and an account selection condition list;

The mail account selection module is used to select the sender's address from the account selection condition list when sending mail, and fill the address into the sending account field in the mail header field;

The account selection condition list is used to store the selection conditions including the sender's address.

Preferably, the mail account selection module is further configured to: return the selected sender address to the mobile terminal, and after receiving confirmation information from the user, fill the address into the sending account in the mail header field field.

Preferably, the email account selection module is further configured to: fill the selected sender's address into the reply account field in the email header field.

Preferably, the sending account field is a From field, and the replying account field is a Reply-To field.

Preferably, the sending account selection module is located in the mobile terminal, or in the mobile email server.

Preferably, if the list of account selection conditions is located in the mobile email server, the list of account selection conditions is set through a webpage, or through a short message sending signaling, or through a voice prompt, Or set by artificial voice call,

If the list of account selection conditions is located in the mobile terminal, it is directly set on the mobile terminal.

The key of the present invention is to pre-set the account selection condition list containing the sender's address. When sending mail, the sender address is selected according to the account selection condition list, which realizes the automatic selection of the mail sending account and conveniently changes the sending account. . Moreover, the existing method of manually changing the sending account is avoided, the user experience is improved, and the probability of selecting a wrong sending account is reduced at the same time.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an implementation process according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a system structure according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The present invention will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.

The idea of the present invention is: preset an account selection condition list including the sender's address, select the sender's address according to the account selection condition list when sending an email, and fill the address into the sending account field in the email header field. Furthermore, when sending an email, before selecting the sender's address according to the account selection condition list, it may further include: identifying the sending account field in the header field of the email, and if there is a registered account in the sending account field, no processing is performed; If there is a non-registered account in the sending account field or the field is empty, then perform the subsequent steps; if the field does not exist, create the sending account field before performing the subsequent steps. That is to say, the sender address can be selected directly according to the account selection criteria list without considering the sending account field at all, or the sending account can be selected if the sending account is not a registered account or the field is empty or there is no sending account field , select the sender address according to the account selection criteria list.

Usually, the sending account field is represented by From in the header field of the email, and the sending account field is generally referred to as the From field hereinafter.

There are many account selection conditions. For example, you can select the address account for sending emails according to the recipient's address; select different sending email address accounts according to the time of sending emails; Email address account. Due to the different account selection conditions, the selection method of the mail account is also slightly different, but in general it is to query the user's prior settings. The following examples introduce several methods of setting the account selection criteria list.

Method 1: The account selection condition list contains the corresponding relationship between the receiver address and the sender address. At this time, the account selection condition list can be set as shown in Table 1:

To From jack@nakia.com zhangsan@huawei.com father@sohu.com zhangsan@sohu.com classmates@163.com zhangsan@chinaren.com others zhangsan@sina.com

Table 1

As shown in Table 1, the method of selecting the sender address is as follows:

After sending the email, read the From field and check whether the address in the From field is the registered email account of the user. If it does not belong to the registered account or the From field is empty or there is no From field, then according to the To in the mail header field The field is the receiver's address field to search the list of account selection conditions, find the corresponding sending address, and set the value of the From field in the mail header field to this address. Of course, the value of the reply account field, that is, the Reply-To field, may be further set to the address.

In addition: Table 1 can also be set as shown in Table 2:

To From *@nakia.com zhangsan@huawei.com *@huawei.com zhangsan@huawei.com *@chinamobile.com zhangsan@huawei.com

Table 2

The above table uses regular expressions, indicating that all letters sent to nokia, huawei and chinamobile are sent to the mailbox of zhangsan@huawei.com.

That is to say, one sender's address can correspond to one or more receiver's addresses, and when there are more than one receiver, they can belong to the same mail server, or can belong to different mail servers.

Method 2: The account selection condition list contains the corresponding relationship between the sending time and the sender's address. At this time, the account selection condition list can be set as shown in Table 3:

Start time (Begin_Time) End time (End_Time) From 00:00 7:59 zhangsan@sohu.com

Start time (Begin_Time) End time (End_Time) From 8:00 11:59 zhangsan@huawei.com 12:00 13:59 zhangsan@sohu.com 14:00 17:59 zhangsan@huawei.com 18:00 23:59 zhangsan@sohu.com

table 3

As shown in Table 3, the method of selecting the sender address is as follows:

When sending an email, read the From field and check whether the address in the From field is the registered email account of the user. If it does not belong to the registered account or the From field is empty or there is no From field, then search the account selection condition list according to the time, Find the corresponding sending address, and set the value of the From field in the mail header field to this address. Of course, the value of the reply account field, that is, the Reply-To field, may be further set to the address.

Method 3: The list of account selection criteria includes the correspondence between email attributes and sender addresses, such as the correspondence between email size and sender address. At this time, the list of account selection criteria can be set as shown in Table 4:

Mail size (Size) From Size＜1M zhangsan@sohu.com 1M<=Size<2M zhangsan@sina.com 2M<=Size<10M zhangsan@163.com Size＞＝10M zhangsan@xxx.com

Table 4

As shown in Table 3, the method of selecting the sender address is as follows:

When sending an email, read the From field and check whether the address in the From field is the registered email account of the user. If it does not belong to a registered account or the From field is empty or there is no From field, first determine the size of the email to be sent , and then search the list of account selection conditions, find the corresponding sending address, and set the value of the From field in the mail header field to this address. Of course, the value of the reply account field, that is, the reply-to field, may be further set to the address.

In specific applications, the processing conditions or processing rules of the mail selection condition table can be set in various ways. If the account selection condition list is located in the mobile email server, the account selection condition list is set through a web page, or It is set by means of short message sending signaling, or by voice prompt, or by artificial voice call; if the list of account selection conditions is located in the mobile terminal, it can be set directly on the mobile terminal. No matter which method is used, the user must enter the user name and password of the corresponding email account for authentication when setting the policy. The method to be adopted is not limited in the present invention.

In addition, one point needs to be explained: the From attribute in the account selection condition list is the email account that the user has registered, such as the accounts zhangsan@huawei.com, zhangsan@sohu.com, zhangsan@chinaren.com, and zhangsan@sina in Table 1. com is Zhang San's email account that has been successfully registered. The From attribute value means that the sending account must be registered. If it is not registered, it cannot be used for sending. That is, the From field can only be a registered account. If it is not registered, it cannot be applied, which can prevent fraudulent use. An error in sending a letter from someone else's mailbox.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an implementation process according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Step 1) mobile email server (MEN Server) receives the mail from mobile email client (MEM Client);

Step 2) The mobile email server reads the From field, and detects whether the address of the From field is the registered mail account of the user. If it does not belong to a registered account or the From field is empty or does not have a From field, it indicates that it needs to be automatically set. Step 3), otherwise go to step 5).

Step 3) Find the list of account selection conditions and select the correct sending address. The content of the account selection criteria list and the specific search method have been described above, and will not be repeated here.

Step 4) Set the From field in the email header field to the address selected above, and further set the value of the reply-to field to this address.

Step 5) The mobile email server sends the email to the corresponding email server according to the address in the From field.

Step 6) After the mail server receives the mail, it will send it according to the To address in the mail.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, the operation of selecting and filling in the sender's address is performed by the mobile email server, and of course the selection and filling in of the sender's address operation can also be completed by the mobile terminal. The server only needs to send the mail to the corresponding mail server according to the address in the From field, which is exactly the same as the existing execution method.

Furthermore, in the process shown in FIG. 1 , after step 3), it may further include: the mobile email server returns the selected sender address to the mobile terminal, and after receiving confirmation information from the user, the subsequent steps are performed.

The present invention also provides a system for automatically selecting an email sending account, referring to Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, the system includes a mobile terminal 10, a mobile email server 20, and one or more mail servers 30, wherein the mobile terminal 10 is used for Creation, editing, such as modification, forwarding, deletion, etc., the mail to be sent, the mobile email server 20 is used to send the mobile mail to be sent to the mail server 30, or forward the mail from the mail server 30 to the mobile terminal 10, the mail server 30 is used to send and receive e-mails externally; the system also includes a sending account selection module 40, which is used to select the sender's address according to the set account selection condition list when sending mail, and fill the address into the sending account in the mail header field. account field.

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the sending account selection module 40 is located in the mobile email server 20. Referring to FIG. 2, the sending account selection module 40 includes: a mail account selection module 41 and an account selection condition list 42; wherein,

The mail account selection module 41 is used to select the sender's address from the account selection condition list 42 when sending mail, and fill the address into the sending account field in the mail header field;

The account selection condition list 42 is used to store the selection conditions including the sender's address.

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a system according to another embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the sending account selection module 40 is located in the mobile terminal 10. Referring to FIG. 3 , the sending account selection module 40 includes: a mail account selection module 41 and an account selection condition list 41; wherein,

The mail account selection module 41 is used to select the sender's address from the account selection condition list 42 when sending mail, and fill the address into the sending account field in the mail header field;

The account selection condition list 42 is used to store the selection conditions including the sender's address.

If the above list of account selection conditions is located in the mobile email server, the list of account selection conditions is set through a web page, or through a short message sending signaling, or through a voice prompt, or through an artificial voice call set up. If the account selection condition list is located in the mobile terminal, it can be set directly on the mobile terminal.

For the embodiment shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3,

The mail account selection module is further configured to: return the selected sender address to the mobile terminal, and fill the address into the sender account field in the mail header field after receiving confirmation information from the user.

The mail account selection module is further used for: filling the selected sender's address into the reply account field in the mail header field.

The sending account field in the mail header field is the From field, and the replying account field is the Reply-To field.

The following will be described in conjunction with specific examples.

Embodiment 1: Assume that Zhang San's preset list of account selection conditions is as shown in Table 1. Zhang San wants to send an email to Jack of Nokia. He edits the email on his mobile terminal, then selects the recipient address as jack@nokia.com, and submits it to the mobile email server. In this example, Zhang San does not choose to send an email Account, that is, the From field is empty.

The processing flow is as follows:

1) After the mobile email server receives the email sent by the mobile terminal;

2) The mobile email server reads the From field, finds that the From field is empty, and turns to the next step;

3) The mobile email server reads the To field, searches the list of account selection conditions, finds out the corresponding sending email address according to the receiver's email address indicated in the To field is zhangsan@huawei.com, and combines the From field and the Reply -To field is set to this address;

4) The mobile email server returns the selected email address zhangsan@huawei.com to the mobile terminal;

5) After receiving the confirmation message from the user, the mobile email server sends the email to the corresponding email server huawei.com;

After the email server huawei.com receives the email, it sends the email according to the address in To.

Embodiment 2: Table 2 shows Zhang San's list of account selection conditions. Zhang San wants to send an email. He edits the email on his mobile terminal, selects the recipient address, and fills in the sending email address as lisi@huawei.com by mistake and submits it to the mobile email server.

The processing flow is as follows:

1) The mobile email server receives the email sent by the mobile terminal;

2) The mobile email server reads the From field and checks whether the address is Zhang San’s registered address on the mobile email server. Suppose the registered addresses are: zhangshan@huawei.com and zhangshan@sohu.com, according to the registered address Judging that lisi@huawei.com is not Zhang San's registered address, go to the next step;

3) The mobile email server searches the list of account selection criteria. According to the received time, assuming it is 16:25, find out the corresponding sending email address is zhangsan@huawei.com, and replace the From field and the Reply-To field is set to this address;

4) The mobile email server returns the selected email address zhangsan@huawei.com to the mobile terminal;

5) After receiving the confirmation message from the user, the mobile email server sends the email to the corresponding email server huawei.com;

After the email server huawei.com receives the email, it sends the email according to the address in To.

The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the protection scope of the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present invention are included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (17)

1. a method of selecting mail transmitting account automatically is characterized in that, comprising:

The setting of mobile E-mail server comprises the account alternative condition tabulation of sender address,

When receiving the mail that the mobile E-mail client request sends, the mobile E-mail server is selected the sender address according to described account alternative condition tabulation, this address is filled in the transmission account field in the mail header field,

Send mail by the mail server corresponding with selected sender address.

2. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, when sending mail, the mobile E-mail server is selected according to described account alternative condition tabulation further to comprise before the sender address: discern the transmission account field in this mail header field,

If have registered account in this transmission account field, then do not process;

If it is empty that this transmission account field exists in non-registered account or this field, then carry out subsequent step again;

If there is no this field, then create this transmission account field after, carry out subsequent step again.

3. method according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that,

The corresponding relation that comprises recipient address and sender address in the described account alternative condition tabulation;

Described process according to described account alternative condition tabulation selection sender address is: the recipient address that obtains described mail, according to the corresponding relation of recipient address and sender address in the described account alternative condition tabulation, select the sender address corresponding with this recipient address.

4. method according to claim 3 is characterized in that, a described sender address is corresponding with one or more recipient addresses.

5. method according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that,

The corresponding relation that comprises transmitting time and sender address in the described account alternative condition tabulation;

Described process according to described account alternative condition tabulation selection sender address is: obtain the current time, according to the corresponding relation of transmitting time and sender address in the described account alternative condition tabulation, select the sender address corresponding with this transmitting time.

6. method according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that,

The corresponding relation that comprises mail attribute and sender address in the described account alternative condition tabulation;

Described process according to described account alternative condition tabulation selection sender address is: the attribute that obtains current mail to be sent, according to the corresponding relation of mail attribute and sender address in the described account alternative condition tabulation, select the sender address corresponding with this mail attribute.

7. method according to claim 6 is characterized in that, described mail attribute is the mail size.

8. method according to claim 1 and 2, it is characterized in that, after described account alternative condition tabulation selection sender address, further comprise: return selected sender address to portable terminal, and after receiving affirmation information, carry out subsequent step again from the user.

9. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that, this method further comprises: selected sender address is filled in the answer account field in the mail header field.

10. method according to claim 9 is characterized in that, described transmission account field is the From field, and described answer account field is the Reply-To field.

11. method according to claim 1 is characterized in that,

The tabulation of described account alternative condition is provided with by the mode of webpage, or sends the means of signaling setting by short message, or by the voice prompting mode setting, or is provided with by the mode of artificial speech phone.

12. system of selecting mail transmitting account automatically, comprise portable terminal, mobile E-mail server, one or more mail servers, described portable terminal is used for creating, editing mail to be sent, described mobile E-mail server, be used for mobile e-mail to be sent is sent to mail server, or will send portable terminal to from the mail of mail server, described mail server is used for externally sending and receiving e-mail;

It is characterized in that the mobile E-mail server comprises that also sending account selects module,

Described transmission account is selected module, be used for when sending mail, the sender address is selected in tabulation according to the account alternative condition that has been provided with, and this address is filled in the transmission account field in the mail header field, sends mail by the mail server corresponding with selected sender address.

13. system according to claim 12 is characterized in that, described transmission account selects module to comprise: mail account is selected module and the tabulation of account alternative condition;

Described mail account is selected module, is used for when sending mail, selects the sender address from the tabulation of account alternative condition, and this address is filled in the transmission account field in the mail header field;

Described account alternative condition tabulation is used to store the alternative condition that comprises the sender address.

14. system according to claim 13, it is characterized in that, described mail account selects module to be further used for: return selected sender address to portable terminal, and after receiving affirmation information from the user, more described address is filled in the transmission account field in the mail header field.

15., it is characterized in that described mail account selects module to be further used for according to claim 13 or 14 described systems: selected sender address is filled in the answer account field in the mail header field.

16. system according to claim 15 is characterized in that, described transmission account field is the From field, and described answer account field is the Reply-To field.

17. system according to claim 12 is characterized in that,

The tabulation of described account alternative condition is provided with by the mode of webpage, or sends the means of signaling setting by short message, or by the voice prompting mode setting, or is provided with by the mode of artificial speech phone.

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