Communication device and email server

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016359784-A1
Application number	US-201515117958-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 17, 2015
Priority date	Jun 24, 2014
Publication date	Dec 8, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

In sending mail data that is addressed to a plurality of BCC destinations, the contents of an additional mail message body can be change individually for the BCC destinations. A communication device includes an accepting module, a mail generation module, a transmission module. The accepting module accepts a mail message body and a plurality of BCC destinations and also accepts the setting of group attributes indicating groups to which the BCC destinations belong and additional contents that are added to the main message body individually for the group attributes. The mail generation module generates mail data including the additional contents corresponding to the groups to which the BCC destinations belong and the mail message body and addressed to the BCC destinations for which the accepting module accepts the group attributes. The transmission module sends the mail data generated by the mail data generation module to a mail server.

First claim

1 . A communication device comprising:
an accepting module that accepts a mail message body and a plurality of BCC destinations and which accepts the setting of group attributes indicating groups to which the BCC destinations belong and additional contents that are added to the mail message body individually for the group attributes; a mail data generation module that generates mail data that includes the mail message body and which are addressed to a BCC destination for which the accepting module does not accept the setting of a group attribute and mail data that includes the additional contents corresponding to the groups to which the BCC destinations belong and the mail message main body and which are addressed to the BCC destinations for which the accepting module accepts the setting of group attributes; and a transmission module that sends the mail data that the mail data generation module generates.

2 . The communication device according to claim 1 , wherein
the mail data generation module generates, as the mail data, mail data that includes envelope information in which the BCC destination for which the accepting module does not accept the setting of a group attribute is used as a sending destination and the mail message body and mail data that includes envelope information in which the BCC destinations for which the accepting module accepts the setting of group attributes as sending destinations, the additional contents corresponding to the groups to which the BCC destinations belong and the mail message body.

3 . The communication device according to claim 1 , comprising further:
a display unit and a display control module that controls a display operation by the display unit, wherein the display control module instructs the display unit to display a mail message body input field where the accepting module accepts the mail message body and an additional contents input field where the accepting module accepts the additional contents on a single screen that does not have to be switched over.

4 . A communication device comprising:
an accepting module that accepts a mail message body and a plurality of BCC destinations and which accepts the setting of group attributes indicating groups to which the BCC destinations belong and additional contents that are added to the mail message body individually for the group attributes; a mail data generation module that generates mail data that includes a command to send a sending mail including the mail message body and which are addressed to a BCC destination for which the accepting module does not accept the setting of a group attribute to a mail server and a command to send a sending mail including the additional contents corresponding to the groups to which the BCC destinations belong and the mail message main body and which are addressed to the BCC destinations for which the accepting module accepts the setting of group attributes to the mail server; and a transmission module that sends the mail data that the mail data generation module generates.

5 . A mail server comprising:
a sending mail generation module that generates a sending mail addressed to a BCC destination for which an accepting module of a communication device does not accept the setting of a group attribute and including a mail message body and a sending mail addressed to a BCC destination for which the accepting module accepts the setting of a group attribute and including an additional content corresponding to a group that the BCC destination that the accepting module accepts belongs and the mail message body by following commands included in mail data sent thereto from the communication device; and a transmission module that sends the sending mails that the sending mail generation module generates.

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Sakaguchi Shoichi
• Takeda Hideki
• Tanaka Yoshihisa
• Hirobe Yumi

Classifications

• G06F3/14

  Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} · CPC title

• G09G2370/022

  Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally · CPC title

• H04L51/14 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/214 Primary

  using selective forwarding · CPC title

• H04L51/063 Primary

  Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content · CPC title