JP2007233666A - Mail sending device, method of sending mail for use therewith, and its program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mail sending device capable of reducing the possibility of operational errors in designating addresses, without having to check each address when a plurality of addresses are designated for sending email. <P>SOLUTION: Once creation of email at a mail creating part 12 is complete, the mail sending device 1 causes an address check display part 14 to display a list of addresses each containing a "sending check flag" to an operator if an address containing the "sending check flag" is included in addresses selected from addresses registered in an address book 11, when a mail sending part 13 performs the process of sending email. When designating that there are one or more addresses to which the operator should not send email, the address check display part 14 performs the operation of deleting the addresses one by one. Once there are no more addresses to be deleted, the mail sending part 13 performs the process of sending the email. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a mail sending apparatus, a mail sending method used therefor, and a program therefor, and more particularly to a method for sending an electronic mail.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in mail software, when an e-mail is created, a plurality of destinations can be designated and sent from a destination registered in advance in an address book by a simple operation.

  However, in the above mail software, due to its simple operation, distribution destinations that should not be sent are included in the delivery destination, and there are frequent misoperations that result in transmission, which is a problem in terms of business information maintenance and the feelings of the other party It may become a problem from the aspect of the.

As a method for solving this problem, there has been proposed a method for providing a means for delaying the time for sending an e-mail after the e-mail transmission decision and enabling the confirmation of the destination again within the delay time. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1).
JP 2003-157216 A

  In the above-described conventional mail software, there is a case where erroneous transmission is performed by mistakenly designating an address that should not be sent by an e-mail address designation operation. In the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, a time for confirming the transmission destination is provided by delaying the transmission at the time of transmission of the e-mail. However, when a plurality of transmission destinations are designated and transmitted, the transmission destination is set to one. One must be confirmed.

  Therefore, the object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, and when sending an e-mail by specifying a plurality of destinations, it is possible to perform an erroneous operation of specifying the destination without checking each destination. It is an object to provide a mail sending apparatus capable of reducing the reliability, a mail sending method used therefor, and a program therefor.

A mail sending device according to the present invention is a mail sending device for sending an e-mail created by selecting the destination from an address book in which the destination is registered,
A determination means for determining whether or not a specific destination registered in advance is included in the destination list created when sending the created e-mail, and the determination means includes the specific destination Confirmation means for confirming whether or not the specific delivery destination may be included in the delivery destination list.

A mail sending method according to the present invention is a mail sending method used for a mail sending device for sending an e-mail created by selecting the destination from an address book in which the destination is registered,
A determination process for determining whether the mail delivery device includes a specific delivery destination registered in advance in the delivery destination list created when the created email is transmitted; and When it is determined that a delivery destination is included, a confirmation process for confirming whether or not the specific delivery destination may be included in the delivery destination list is executed.

A program for a mail sending method according to the present invention is a program for a mail sending method used for a mail sending device for sending an e-mail created by selecting the destination from an address book in which the destination is registered.
A determination process for determining whether or not a specific destination registered in advance is included in the destination list created when sending the created e-mail to the computer of the mail sending device; and When it is determined that a specific destination is included, a confirmation process for confirming whether or not the specific destination can be included in the destination list is executed.

  In other words, the mail delivery device of the present invention may be included in the delivery destination when a specific delivery destination registered in advance is included in the created delivery destination list when sending the created electronic mail. It has the function to confirm.

  As described above, in the mail sending device of the present invention, when the address book is registered in advance as the destination of the e-mail, the “destination confirmation flag” is registered in association with each registration, and the e-mail is sent. When creating an address that includes an address for which the "Destination Confirmation Flag" is turned on in the addressee, multiple addresses can be sent by prompting you to confirm whether this address can be included in the addressee when sending. To reduce the possibility of sending e-mails to destinations that should not be sent by mistake in specifying destinations, without checking each destination when sending e-mails specifying destinations. Is possible.

  In other words, in the mail sending device of the present invention, when an address with a “shipping confirmation flag” registered in advance is selected as the sending destination, it may be sent to the operator immediately before sending to this sending destination. By displaying a confirmation screen and providing a function to delete the destination if it is necessary to reduce the possibility of sending an e-mail to a destination that should not be sent due to an incorrect operation of the destination specification Is possible.

  The present invention is configured and operated as described above, so that when a plurality of destinations are specified and an e-mail is transmitted, it is possible to perform an erroneous operation of specifying the destination without checking each destination. The effect that possibility can be reduced is acquired.

  Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a mail sending apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the mail sending device 1 is composed of an address book 11, a mail creating part 12, a transmission processing part 13, and a destination confirmation display part 14. Each record in the address book 11 contains a mail address. In addition to a and other attributes c, a sending confirmation flag b corresponding to them is held.

  When an operator creates an e-mail using the mail creating unit 12, a destination is selected from the address book 11, and when the creation of the e-mail is completed, the destination confirmation display unit 14 is electronically transmitted by the transmission processing unit 13. Immediately before sending the e-mail, it is checked whether or not the destination with the above-mentioned sending confirmation flag b is included. A message for confirming whether or not to send is displayed.

  When an address that should not be sent is specified in the destination list displayed together with the above message, the destination confirmation display unit 14 individually deletes the address from the destination list.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing registration processing of the address book 11 in the mail sending apparatus 1 of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing electronic mail sending processing in the mail sending apparatus 1 of FIG. The operation of the mail sending device 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  First, when the operator performs an operation of registering an address in the address book 11 (step S1 in FIG. 2), the mail address a is input to the mail sending device 1 (step S2 in FIG. 2), and the presence / absence of the sending confirmation flag b is present. When another attribute c is input (step S4 in FIG. 2), data input for one address is completed (step S4 in FIG. 2). The mail sending device 1 holds these input data in the address book 11.

  If there is another address registration (step S5 in FIG. 2), the mail sending device 1 repeats the above steps S1 to S4. Note that the input processes in steps S2 to S4 described above may be input in an order different from the above rather than in a fixed order.

  If there is no other address registration (step S5 in FIG. 2), the mail sending device 1 ends the registration process in the address book 11. In the above flow, the feature of this embodiment is that the presence / absence of the destination confirmation flag is input in step S3.

  Next, when the operator starts the process of creating an e-mail (step S11 in FIG. 3), the mail text is input to the mail sending device 1 (step S12 in FIG. 3), and the address book created by the registration process described above. A destination to be transmitted by the electronic mail is designated from 11 (step S13 in FIG. 3). Note that the order of the process of step S12 and the process of step S13 may be reversed.

  When the e-mail creation is completed, the e-mail sending device 1 performs the e-mail transmission process (step S14 in FIG. 3). At that time, the mail sending device 1 checks whether or not the delivery destination selected in step S13 includes a delivery destination including the “delivery confirmation flag” (step S15 in FIG. 3), and one case corresponds. If there is no address, the e-mail transmission process is executed as it is (step S19 in FIG. 3).

  When there is one or more corresponding addresses in the above check, the mail sending device 1 displays a list of sending destinations including the “shipping confirmation flag” to the operator (step S16 in FIG. 3) and keeps it as it is. A message is displayed on the operation screen prompting an operation for confirming whether or not transmission is possible, that is, whether or not transmission is allowed.

  The mail sending apparatus 1 performs an operation of deleting one by one when it is specified on the operation screen that there is one or more destinations that the operator should not send (steps S16 to S18 in FIG. 3). When the mail sending device 1 has no destination to be deleted (step S17 in FIG. 3), this mail sending process is executed (step S19 in FIG. 3).

  In the above flow, the processing of steps S16 to S18 is a feature of this embodiment. The processes in steps S16 to S18 are performed after the transmission operation in step S14 is executed in the above example. However, the processes can be performed when a destination is selected from the address book 11 in step S13.

  As described above, in this embodiment, when an address with a pre-registered “send confirmation flag” is selected as the destination, the address is sent to the operator immediately before sending the e-mail. By displaying an operation screen for confirming whether or not deletion is necessary and providing a function to delete it if necessary, it is possible to send an e-mail to a destination that should not be sent by mistake in the destination specification. Can be reduced.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an information processing apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention. 4, the information processing apparatus 2 includes a CPU (central processing unit) 21, a main memory 22 that stores a control program 22 a that is executed by the CPU 21, a storage device 23 that stores application programs that can be executed by the CPU 21, and the like. The display unit 24 includes a communication control unit 25 that controls communication such as transmission / reception of electronic mail. The CPU 21, the main memory 22, the storage device 23, the display unit 24, and the communication control unit 25 are connected to the internal bus 210, respectively.

  The storage device 23 includes mail software 231 that implements each function of the mail sending device 1 described above by a program, and an address book 232 used by the mail software 231. The address book 231 is the same as the address book 11 in the above-described embodiment of the present invention.

  In the present embodiment, the CPU 21 reads and executes the mail software 231 in the storage device 23, whereby the same processing as in the above-described embodiment of the present invention can be realized and the same effect can be obtained. The information processing apparatus 2 may be any information device capable of creating and transmitting an electronic mail such as a personal computer, a mobile phone, or a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the mail transmission apparatus by one Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the registration process of the address book in the mail transmission apparatus of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the sending process of the email in the mail sending apparatus of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the information processing apparatus by the other Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 E-mail sending device
2 Information processing equipment 11, 232 Address book
12 Mail creation department
13 Transmission processor
14 Destination confirmation display section
21 CPU
22 Main memory 22a Control program
23 Storage device
24 display
25 Communication control section 210 Internal bus 231 Mail software

Claims (9)

A mail sending device for sending an e-mail created by selecting the destination from an address book in which the destination is registered,
A determination means for determining whether or not a specific destination registered in advance is included in the destination list created when sending the created e-mail, and the determination means includes the specific destination A mail sending apparatus comprising: a confirmation unit that confirms whether or not the specific delivery destination may be included in the delivery destination list when it is determined that the destination is included.   2. The mail sending apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for registering a destination confirmation flag in association with each registration when the destination of the electronic mail is registered in the address book in advance.   3. The mail sending apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the determining unit determines that the destination to which the destination confirmation flag is assigned is the specific destination.   2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for deleting the specific destination from the destination list when the confirmation means confirms that the specific destination is not included in the destination list. 3. The mail sending device according to any one of 3. A mail sending method used for a mail sending device for sending an e-mail created by selecting the destination from an address book in which the destination is registered,
A determination process for determining whether the mail delivery device includes a specific delivery destination registered in advance in the delivery destination list created when the created email is transmitted; and A mail sending method comprising: executing a confirmation process for confirming whether or not the specific destination is included in the destination list when it is determined that the destination is included.   6. The mail according to claim 5, wherein the mail sending device executes a process of registering a destination confirmation flag in association with each registration when the destination of the electronic mail is previously registered in the address book. Sending method.   7. The mail sending method according to claim 6, wherein, in the determination process, a destination to which the destination confirmation flag is assigned is determined as the specific destination.   The mail sending apparatus executes a process of deleting the specific destination from the destination list when it is confirmed in the confirmation process that the specific destination is not included in the destination list. The mail sending method according to any one of claims 5 to 7. A mail sending method program used for a mail sending device for sending an e-mail created by selecting the destination from an address book in which the destination is registered,
A determination process for determining whether or not a specific destination registered in advance is included in the destination list created when sending the created e-mail to the computer of the mail sending device; and A program for executing a confirmation process for confirming whether or not the specific destination is included in the destination list when it is determined that the specific destination is included.

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