Methods, apparatuses and computer media for judging period of validity in a digital certificate and generating an e-mail if predefined condition is satisfied

摘要

There is provided a management apparatus, which comprises a transmission condition judgment unit which refers to a target digital certificate and judges whether a predetermined transmission condition is satisfied based on a period of validity written in the target digital certificate, a mail generating unit which generates an e-mail provided with link information to a web page where updating operation on the target digital certificate is acceptable if the predetermined transmission condition is judged as satisfied by the transmission condition judgment unit, a destination setting unit which sets an destination e-mail address of the e-mail generated by the mail generating unit, and a mail transmission unit which transmits the e-mail generated by the mail generating unit to the destination e-mail address set by the destination setting unit.