Method and Apparatus Providing Personalized Mailbox Filters (Method and Apparatus providing personalized mailbox filters)

摘要

The e-mail box uses the address extension to classify the message according to personal or conventional rules set by the owner of the mailbox. The recipient assigns the address extension to this sender before the expected sender sends the message. The sender uses the address extension when addressing and transmitting the message to the recipient. The recipient also provides a number of address extensions to a particular sender, allowing the sender to send a message regarding a particular topic or project. The recipient maintains a look-up table of valid address extensions. This lookup table correlates the address extender with a particular priority level. The recipient can change the priority associated with a particular message by reassigning the associated priority to the corresponding address extension of the lookup table. Thus, even when the sender continues to use a particular address extension in the forwarding address, the email box could no longer handle such a message with the priority level predicted by the sender.