Internet e-mail bridge

Details Internet e-mail bridge Internet e-mail bridge

2011-01-04

2011-01-04

Lazaro, David (Department: 2455)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer conferencing

Demand based messaging

C709S228000, C719S315000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07865554

ABSTRACT:
An Internet mail bridge is provided for downloading e-mail messages from Internet mail servers supporting different e-mail access protocols, such as the Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (Web DAV) protocol, and delivering the downloaded messages, which are in different formats, to a mail server on a local area network. The Internet mail bridge has a mail manager that is independent from particular e-mail protocols or e-mail formats. For each e-mail account, the mail manager instantiates a mail connector object that contains logic for downloading e-mail according to the e-mail access protocol of that account, and invokes the mail connector object to download e-mail messages from that account. The mail manager then instantiates and invokes mail deliverer objects tailored for handling different message formats to deliver the downloaded messages to the local mail server.

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