CN101729438A - Method and device for forwarding electronic mail - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses an e-mail forwarding method, which includes: the sender's mail system obtains information that the mail address whose destination address is the first address has expired; the sender's mail system obtains the forwarding relationship between the first address and the second address; The party's mail system processes the mail according to the forwarding relationship. At the same time, the present invention also discloses an e-mail system for the sender, including: an e-mail preprocessing module, used to obtain information that the e-mail address whose destination address is the first address has expired; a forwarding relationship acquisition module, used to obtain the first address A forwarding relationship with the second address; a mail processing module, configured to process the mail according to the forwarding relationship. The invention overcomes the problem that the user cannot receive the mail because the original address cannot receive and forward the mail after being invalid.

Description

Method and device for e-mail forwarding

technical field

The invention relates to the technical field of the Internet, in particular to a method and device for forwarding emails.

Background technique

In the existing e-mail system, if the recipient cancels the original e-mail address and wants to use a new e-mail address, the original e-mail address and the new e-mail address cannot be smoothly transitioned, and the sender cannot know immediately The recipient cannot effectively notify all senders of the new email address, resulting in a high cost of switching an email address.

Contents of the invention

On the one hand, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for forwarding emails, including:

The sender's email system obtains information that the email address whose destination address is the first address has expired;

The sender's mail system obtains the forwarding relationship between the first address and the second address;

The sender's mail system processes the mail according to the forwarding relationship.

On the other hand, an embodiment of the present invention provides a sender email system, including:

The mail preprocessing module is used to obtain the information that the mail address whose destination address is the first address has expired;

A forwarding relationship acquisition module, configured to acquire the forwarding relationship between the first address and the second address;

The mail processing module is configured to process the mail according to the forwarding relationship.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the mail system of the sending party receives and forwards the mail to the new address according to the address mapping relationship, which overcomes the problem that the user cannot receive the mail because the original address cannot receive and forward the mail after it becomes invalid, and realizes The user receives emails whose destination address is the original address at the new address.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the flowchart of the method for e-mail forwarding in the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the flowchart of the method for e-mail forwarding in the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of the e-mail system of the sender in the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of the e-mail system of the sender in the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a forwarding relationship module of the sender's email system in an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

As shown in Figure 1, a method for e-mail forwarding includes:

S101. The sender's email system obtains information that the email address whose destination address is the first address has expired;

For example, the sender's email system receives an email with a destination address of abc@sohu.com.

Optionally, step S101 may specifically be: before the sender's mail system sends the mail, the sender's mail system verifies the validity of abc@sohu.com, and sends the mail to the destination address abc@sohu.com as the first address Party's mail system sohu.com sends connection establishment request, and this connection establishment request can use connection-oriented TCP protocol bearer, if described connection establishment fails, then sender's mail system can think that receiver's mail system sohu.com does not exist, And confirm that the destination address abc@sohu.com is the first email address has expired.

Optionally, step S101 may specifically be: before the sender's mail system sends the mail, the sender's mail system verifies the validity of abc@sohu.com, and sends the mail to the destination address abc@sohu.com as the first address The party's mail system sohu.com sends a connection establishment request, which can use the connection-oriented TCP protocol to bear the weight of the connection. If the connection is successfully established, the simple mail forwarding protocol SMTP can be used to send the message to the recipient's mail system sohu.com When sending an email, when the receiver's mail system sohu.com judges that the destination address abc@sohu.com is the first email address does not exist, and feeds back the judgment result to the sender's mail system, the sender's mail system confirms The email address whose destination address is abc@sohu.com as the first address has expired.

S103. The sender's email system obtains the forwarding relationship between the first address and the second address;

For example, get def@163.com that has a mapping relationship with abc@sohu.com.

Optionally, as shown in Figure 2, before step S103, the following steps may be included:

S201. Set a forwarding relationship between the first address and the second address;

Optionally, step S201 may specifically be:

Setting a mapping relationship between the first address and the second address;

For example: the user has two email addresses abc@sohu.com and def@163.com. The first address is: abc@sohu.com, the second def@163.com address is: establish the mapping relationship between the first address and the second address: establish the mapping relationship between abc@sohu.com and def@163.com

A forwarding rule is set in which the mail whose destination address is the first address is forwarded to the second address according to the mapping relationship.

Wherein, the forwarding rules include:

Forward mail addressed to the first address to the second address; and/or

Notifying the sender of the mail that the new destination address of the mail is the second address.

For example, the user sets the following forwarding rules in the sender's mail system:

Forward the mail whose destination address is abc@sohu.com to def@163.com.

Send an email to the sender, informing that the new destination address of the email is def@163.com.

S203. Send requests for authenticating the forwarding relationship to the first address and the second address respectively;

For example, the email system of the sender sends authentication emails to abc@sohu.com and def@163.com respectively.

S205. Receive a response for authenticating the forwarding relationship, and validate the forwarding relationship between the first address and the second address.

For example, users log in to abc@sohu.com and def@163.com respectively, and receive authentication emails from the sender's email system. The user opens the authentication email in abc@sohu.com and def@163.com respectively, and clicks the network link in the authentication email. The sender's email system responds to the network authentication requests from abc@sohu.com and def@163.com respectively. The forwarding relationship of abc@sohu.com and def@163.com takes effect.

S105. The email system of the sender processes the email according to the forwarding relationship.

As shown in Figure 3, a sender email system includes:

A mail preprocessing module 301, configured to obtain information that the mail address whose destination address is the first address has expired;

A forwarding relationship acquiring module 303, configured to acquire the forwarding relationship between the first address and the second address;

The mail processing module 305 is configured to process the mail according to the forwarding relationship.

Optionally, the mail preprocessing module 301 may be specifically configured to: before sending the mail, send a connection establishment request to the recipient mail system whose destination address is the first address, and if the connection establishment fails, then confirm the destination address The email address used as the first address is no longer valid.

Optionally, the mail preprocessing module 301 may be specifically configured to: before sending the mail, send a connection establishment request to the recipient mail system whose destination address is the first address, and if the connection is successfully established, send the The recipient's mail system sends the mail, and when the recipient's mail system judges that the mail address whose destination address is the first address does not exist, and feeds back the judgment result to the mail preprocessing module, it confirms that the destination address is the first address The email address for is no longer valid.

Optionally, as shown in Figure 4, the email system of the sending party further includes:

A forwarding relationship module 401, configured to set a forwarding relationship between the first address and the second address;

An authentication sending module 403, configured to send a request for authenticating the forwarding relationship to the first address and the second address respectively;

An authentication validating module 405, configured to receive a response for authenticating the forwarding relationship, and validate the forwarding relationship between the first address and the second address.

Optionally, as shown in FIG. 5, the forwarding relationship module 401 includes:

A forwarding address setting unit 501, configured to set a mapping relationship between the first address and the second address;

A forwarding rule setting unit 503, configured to set a forwarding rule for forwarding mail whose destination address is the first address to the second address according to the mapping relationship.

Wherein, the forwarding rule may be: forwarding the mail whose destination address is the first address to the second address; and/or notifying the sender of the mail that the new destination address of the mail is the second address.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the mail system of the sending party receives and forwards the mail to the new address according to the address mapping relationship, which overcomes the problem that the user cannot receive the mail because the original address cannot receive and forward the mail after it becomes invalid, and realizes The user can receive mails whose destination address is the original address at the new address.

Those skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps in the methods of the above embodiments can be implemented by program instructions related hardware, and the program can be stored in a known computer-readable storage medium.

In summary, it is only a specific embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of protection of the present invention is not limited thereto. Anyone skilled in the art can easily think of changes or substitutions within the technical scope disclosed in the present invention. All should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be based on the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (12)

1. the method for an e-mail forward is characterized in that, comprising:

It is the failed information of addresses of items of mail of first address that the transmit leg mailing system obtains destination address;

The transmit leg mailing system is obtained the forwarding relation of first address and second address;

The transmit leg mailing system is handled this mail according to described forwarding relation.

2. a kind of method of e-mail forward according to claim 1 is characterized in that, it is that the step of the failed information of addresses of items of mail of first address comprises that described transmit leg mailing system obtains destination address:

Described transmit leg mailing system is before sending mail, to destination address is the recipient mailing system transmission connection foundation request of first address, if failure is set up in described connection, then outbox side's mailing system confirms that destination address is that the addresses of items of mail of first address lost efficacy.

3. a kind of method of e-mail forward according to claim 1 is characterized in that, it is that the step of the failed information of addresses of items of mail of first address comprises that described transmit leg mailing system obtains destination address:

Described transmit leg mailing system is before sending mail, to destination address is the recipient mailing system transmission connection foundation request of first address, if described connection is set up successfully, then send mail to described recipient mailing system, the addresses of items of mail that is first address when described recipient mailing system judgement destination address does not exist, and when judged result fed back to the transmit leg mailing system, outbox side's mailing system confirmed that destination address is that the addresses of items of mail of first address lost efficacy.

4. a kind of method of e-mail forward according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described transmit leg mailing system is obtained before the forwarding relation of first address and second address, comprising:

The forwarding relation of first address and second address is set;

Send the request that the described forwarding of authentication concerns to first address and second address respectively;

Receive the response of the described forwarding relation of authentication, the forwarding relation of described first address and second address is come into force.

5. as the method for a kind of e-mail forward as described in the claim 4, it is characterized in that the described forwarding relation that first address and second address are set comprises:

The mapping relations of first address and second address are set;

The mail that destination address is set is first address is forwarded to the forwarding rule of second address according to described mapping relations.

6. as the method for a kind of e-mail forward as described in the claim 5, it is characterized in that described forwarding rule comprises:

With destination address is the mail of first address, is forwarded to second address; And/or

Know that to mail outbox square tube the new destination address of mail is second address.

7. a transmit leg e-mail system is characterized in that, comprising:

The mail pretreatment module is used to obtain the failed information of addresses of items of mail that destination address is first address;

Forwarding concerns acquisition module, is used to obtain the forwarding relation of first address and second address;

The mail treatment module is used for according to described forwarding relation this mail being handled.

8. as transmit leg e-mail system as described in the claim 7, it is characterized in that, described mail pretreatment module specifically is used for: before sending mail, to destination address is the recipient mailing system transmission connection foundation request of first address, if failure is set up in described connection, confirm that then destination address is that the addresses of items of mail of first address lost efficacy.

9. as transmit leg e-mail system as described in the claim 7, it is characterized in that,

Described mail pretreatment module specifically is used for: before sending mail, to destination address is the recipient mailing system transmission connection foundation request of first address, if described connection is set up successfully, then send mail to described recipient mailing system, the addresses of items of mail that is first address when described recipient mailing system judgement destination address does not exist, and when judged result fed back to described mail pretreatment module, confirm that destination address is that the addresses of items of mail of first address lost efficacy.

10. as transmit leg e-mail system as described in the claim 7, it is characterized in that, also comprise:

Transmit relationship module, be used to be provided with the forwarding relation of first address and second address;

The authentication sending module is used for sending the request that the described forwarding of authentication concerns to first address and second address respectively;

Authenticate the module that comes into force, be used to receive the response of the described forwarding relation of authentication, the forwarding relation of described first address and second address is come into force.

11. as transmit leg e-mail system as described in the claim 7, it is characterized in that,

Described forwarding relationship module comprises:

Forwarding address is provided with the unit, is used to be provided with the mapping relations of first address and second address;

Transmit rule the unit is set, the mail that is used to be provided with destination address and is first address is forwarded to the forwarding rule of second address according to described mapping relations.

12. as transmit leg e-mail system as described in the claim 11, it is characterized in that,

Described forwarding rule is: with destination address is the mail of first address, is forwarded to second address; And/or

Know that to mail outbox square tube the new destination address of mail is second address.

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