EP 1153498 A1 20011114 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROXYING AND FILTERING ELECTRONIC MAIL
Title (en)
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROXYING AND FILTERING ELECTRONIC MAIL
Title (de)
VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR PROXYFUNKION-ERZEUGUNG UND FILTERUNG VON ELEKTRONISCHEN POST
Title (fr)
PROCEDE ET APPAREIL PERMETTANT DE MANDATER ET DE FILTRER UN MESSAGE DE COURRIER ELECTRONIQUE
Publication
Application
Priority
- GB 0000560 W 20000217
- GB 9903672 A 19990217
Abstract (en)
[origin: GB2347053A] Email messages transmitted from a server via a mail transport protocol over an email network are passed through a proxy host 301, which is able to locally filter useful email from junk email by utilising a series of "scoring" metrics or by more explicit user configuration (killfiles), before passing the filtered mail on to the client user via the chosen mail transport protocol. The proxy server can produce logs and digests of processed junk email and send them by email or present them via a secure World Wide Web document to a system administrator for inspection, and also, for any message which cannot be conclusively scored as being junk, add it to a second per-user mailbox which can be inspected by the intended recipient at his discretion via a World Wide Web interface. The user can then inform the proxy definitively by World Wide Web fill-out form whether the message is junk or not, and email messages confirmed as being junk can then be removed automatically from all mailboxes held on the proxy.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.05)
Citation (search report)
See references of WO 0049776A1
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
GB 2347053 A 20000823; GB 9903672 D0 19990414; EP 1153498 A1 20011114; JP 2002537727 A 20021105; WO 0049776 A1 20000824
DOCDB simple family (application)
GB 9903672 A 19990217; EP 00903871 A 20000217; GB 0000560 W 20000217; JP 2000600402 A 20000217