Patent ID: 6839738
Filing Date: 2005-01-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for correcting an e-mail message that has been determined as being undeliverable via a remote e-mail correcting computer having a unique e-mail address, the method comprising the steps of: prescribing at least one domain name e-mail address without having an e-mail username in the remote e-mail correcting computer by a subscriber; prescribing at least one e-mail address format message for e-mail messages intended to be sent to the at least one domain name e-mail address; prescribing a plurality of correct e-mail usernames for the prescribed domain name e-mail address in the remote e-mail correcting computer; sending from a user's computer to said remote e-mail correcting computer an undeliverable e-mail message addressed to an intended e-mail address; receiving at said remote e-mail correcting computer from said user's computer the undeliverable e-mail message addressed to the intended e-mail address; parsing the intended e-mail address from the undeliverable e-mail message in said remote e-mail correcting computer to determine if the domain name address of the undeliverable e-mail message has been prescribed with said remote e-mail correcting computer; determining in the remote e-mail computer if there is a closet match between one of the prescribed correct usernames with that of the username associated with the e-mail message sent to the remote computer; and sending a message to the user's computer containing the prescribed at least one e-mail address format message for the parsed domain name address if the parsed domain name address from said undeliverable e-mail message has been prescribed with said remote e-mail correcting computer.