Patent ID: 7962554
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An E-mail management system for managing a forward destination of an E-mail, the E-mail management system including a processor, the processor programmed to execute: accepting a setting request of a forward destination address corresponding to a receipt address of an E-mail addressed to the receipt address and the E-mail being to be forwarded to the forward destination address; providing a user with information representing response steps for responding to the test E-mail according to a designation, where the user is within a predetermined range; executing a confirmation of a validity of the forward destination address to which the E-mail addressed to the receipt address is forwarded, by sending the test mail to the forward destination address and receiving the response to the test mail; wherein said confirmation includes confirming whether or not the response conforms with the designation; registering the forward destination address corresponding to the receipt address if the confirmation proved successful; forwarding a received E-mail addressed to the receipt address to the forward destination address when the forward destination address corresponding to the receipt address is registered; registering a forward destination address unconditionally in response to said setting request for setting the forward destination address that is within a predetermined range; and registering a forward destination address with respect to which the confirmation proved successful in response to said setting request for setting the forward destination address that is beyond the predetermined range.