Mail processing method and apparatus, device and medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12063187-B2
Application number	US-202318230743-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 7, 2023
Priority date	Jun 28, 2020
Publication date	Aug 13, 2024
Grant date	Aug 13, 2024

Abstract

A mail processing method and apparatus, a device, a medium, a computer program product, and a computer program provided in the present disclosure, where the method includes: receiving a to-be-sent mail; obtaining, if it is identified that the to-be-sent mail includes an instant messaging group identifier, a group mail address corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier; and taking the group mail address as a recipient address and performing a sending operation on the to-be-sent mail.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mail processing method, applied to a mail server, comprising:
receiving a to-be-sent mail from a mail client; and
in response to an instant messaging group identifier being comprised in a body of the to-be-sent mail, sending the to-be-sent mail to an instant messaging group member of an instant messaging group indicated by the instant messaging group identifier.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in response to the instant messaging group identifier being comprised in the body of the to-be-sent mail, sending the to-be-sent mail to the instant messaging group member of the instant messaging group indicated by the instant messaging group identifier comprises:
obtaining, in response to the instant messaging group identifier being comprised in the body of the to-be-sent mail, a group mail address corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier; and
sending the to-be-sent mail to a recipient address indicated by a recipient identifier to send the to-be-sent mail to the instant messaging group member, wherein the recipient address comprises the group mail address.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein after obtaining the group mail address corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier, the method further comprises:
adding the group mail address corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier to the recipient address.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the sending the to-be-sent mail to the recipient address indicated by the recipient identifier to send the to-be-sent mail to the instant messaging group member comprises:
determining, according to the instant messaging group identifier, a member mail address of the instant messaging group member, if it is detected that the group mail address receives the mail; and
sending the received mail to the member mail address.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the determining, according to the instant messaging group identifier, the member mail address of the instant messaging group member comprises:
initiating, according to the instant messaging group identifier corresponding to the group mail address carried in the to-be-sent mail, a group member query request to an instant messaging server;
receiving a member identifier of the instant messaging group member fed back by the instant messaging server; and
determining, according to the member identifier, the member mail address of the instant messaging group member.

6. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the sending the to-be-sent mail to the recipient address indicated by the recipient identifier comprises:
performing a deduplication operation on the recipient address indicated by the recipient identifier, and sending the to-be-sent mail to a deduplicated recipient address.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the performing the deduplication operation on the recipient address indicated by the recipient identifier comprises:
determining, according to the instant messaging group identifier, the instant messaging group member;
performing the deduplication operation based on a member identifier of the instant messaging group member; and
determining a member mail address based on a deduplicated member identifier.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the performing the deduplication operation on the recipient address indicated by the recipient identifier comprises:
determining, according to the instant messaging group identifier, the instant messaging group member;
determining, based on the member identifier of the instant messaging group member, a member mail address; and
performing the deduplication operation on the member mail address to obtain a deduplicated member mail address.

9. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the obtaining the group mail address corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier comprises:
querying whether the group mail address corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier exists; and
if the group mail address corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier does not exist, creating a corresponding group mail address for the instant messaging group.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the sending the to-be-sent mail to the instant messaging group member of the instant messaging group indicated by the instant messaging group identifier comprises:
in response to a case that a sender is the instant messaging group member of the instant messaging group, blocking sending the to-be-sent mail to the sender.

11. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: during a user input process, automatically recommending a candidate instant messaging group identifier based on what is input by a user.

12. The method according to claim 11 , further comprising: invoking an automatic recommendation component in response to a specific prompt input by the user, wherein the automatic recommendation component automatically recommends, based on what is input by the user, the candidate instant messaging group identifier, for the user to select and input.

13. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the candidate instant messaging group identifier has display information representing a candidate instant messaging group.

14. The method according to claim 1 , wherein:
the instant messaging group identifier is associated with a sender.

15. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the group mail address is a hash address or the group mail address comprises a keyword corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier.

16. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the group mail address corresponds to the instant messaging group identifier one-to-one, or the group mail address is a set of mail addresses of instant messaging group members obtained based on the instant messaging group identifier.

17. A mail processing method, applied to a mail client, comprising:
obtaining a recipient identifier, wherein the recipient identifier comprises multiple instant messaging group identifiers, or the recipient identifier comprises a personal mail address and at least one instant messaging group identifier; and
sending, based on the recipient identifier, a mail to a mail sever, to enable the mail sever to send the mail to a recipient indicated by the recipient identifier;
wherein the obtaining the recipient identifier comprises:
in response to an instant messaging group identifier being comprised in a body of the mail, determining the comprised instant messaging group identifier as the recipient identifier.

18. The method according to claim 17 , further comprising:
adding a group mail address indicated by the at least one group identifier to a recipient address of the recipient.

19. The method according to claim 17 , further comprising:
obtaining multiple group mail addresses corresponding to the multiple instant messaging group identifiers or at least one group mail address corresponding to the at least one instant messaging group identifier, and displaying the multiple group mail addresses or the at least one group mail address in the mail.

20. A device, applied to a mail server, comprising:
one or more processors;
a memory having stored thereon one or more programs; and
the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
receive a to-be-sent mail from a mail client;
in response to an instant messaging group identifier being comprised in a body of the to-be-sent mail, send the to-be-sent ma

Assignees

• Bytedance Inc

Inventors

• Zheng Wentao
• Li Bo
• Lim Justin Jia-Zhao
• Zhu Jie

Classifications

• H04W4/08

  User group management · CPC title

• G06Q10/107 Primary

  Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing] · CPC title

• H04L51/48

  Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases · CPC title

• H04L61/5069

  for group communication, multicast communication or broadcast communication · CPC title

• H04L61/301

  Name conversion · CPC title