Patent ID: 8819147
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An e-mail receiving apparatus arranged to perform prescribed processes on e-mails that are received from an e-mail server apparatus and are addressed to a plurality of users, the e-mail receiving apparatus comprising: a control unit arranged to distribute the e-mails to the plurality of users by storing the processed e-mails in a mail box that is provided as a first storage unit with respect to each user; and a second storage unit arranged to store: in response to a command ordering a deletion of a registration of a certain user, the control unit deletes e-mails addressed to the certain user from the first storage unit, and deletes the combination of the user ID and the unique ID of the certain user from the user management table; and the control unit sequentially reads out each record of the received e-mail management table, determines whether or not the unique ID of the user that is related to the read-out record is in the user management table, performs the prescribed processes on the stored e-mails that are related to the read-out record and stores the stored e-mails in the first storage unit when the unique ID is in the user management table, and deletes the read-out record and the corresponding e-mails from the received e-mail management table when the corresponding combination of the user ID and the unique ID is not in the user management table.