Message-address management program, recording medium carrying message-address management program, message-address management method, and message-address management apparatus

A message-address management program to cause a computer to perform message-address management processing in a system capable of exchanging messages among a plurality of servers, wherein the program causes the computer to perform:

• absence-response-information receiving processing to receive from a server absence response information including at least an old address and a new address of a certain member of a mail group;
• absence-response-information management processing to store and manage the absence response information;
• address judgment processing to judge whether an address of an accepted transmission mail matches the old address contained in the absence response information;
• and
• transfer processing to transmit the mail after replacement of the address with the new address, when the address of the mail matches the old address contained in the absence response information.

A program recording medium storing a program to cause a computer to perform message-address management processing in a system capable of exchanging messages among a plurality of servers, wherein the program causes the computer to perform:

• absence-response-information accepting processing, when a mail address of a certain member of a mail group changes, so as to receive absence response information including at least an old address and a new address of the member;
• notice-receiver extraction processing to extract a mail address of another member of the mail group from a previously provided mail list for the mail group;
• notice-destination determination processing to specify a server to which the absence response information is to be provided, on the basis of the extracted mail address;
• and
• absence-response-information distribution processing to distribute the absence response information to the specified server.

A program recording medium storing a program to cause a computer to perform message-address management processing in a system capable of exchanging messages among a plurality of servers, wherein the program causing the computer to perform:

• absence-response-information receiving processing to receive from a server absence response information including at least an old address and a new address of a certain member of a mail group;
• absence-response-information management processing to store and manage the absence response information;
• address judgment processing to judge whether an address of an accepted transmission mail matches the old address contained in the absence response information;
• and
• transfer processing to transmit the mail after replacement of the address with the new address, when the address of the mail matches the old address contained in the absence response information.

A message-address management method for exchanging messages among a plurality of servers, the method comprising the steps of:

• receiving, when a mail address of a certain member of a mail group changes, absence response information including at least an old address and a new address of the member;
• extracting a mail address of another member of the mail group from a previously provided mail list for the mail group;
• specifying a server to which the absence response information is to be provided, on the basis of the extracted mail address;
• and
• distributing the absence response information to the specified server.

A message-address management method for exchanging messages among a plurality of servers, the method comprising the steps of:

• receiving from a server absence response information including at least an old address and a new address of a certain member of a mail group who uses the server;
• storing and managing the absence response information;
• judging whether an address of an accepted transmission mail matches the old address contained in the absence response information;
• and
• transmitting the mail after replacement of the address with the new address, when the address of the mail matches the old address contained in the absence response information.

A message-address management apparatus for exchanging messages among a plurality of servers, the apparatus comprising:

• absence-response-information accepting means for receiving, when a mail address of a certain member of a mail group changes, absence response information including at least an old address and a new address of the member;
• notice-receiver extraction means for extracting a mail address of another member of the mail group from a previously provided mail list for the mail group;
• notice-destination determination means for specifying a server to which the absence response information is to be provided, on the basis of the extracted mail address;
• and
• absence-response-information distribution means for distributing the absence response information to the specified server.

A message-address management apparatus for exchanging messages among a plurality of servers, the apparatus comprising:

• absence-response-information receiving means for receiving from a server absence response information including at least an old address and a new address of a certain member of a mail group;
• absence-response-information management means for storing and managing the absence response information;
• address judgment means for judging whether an address of an accepted transmission mail matches the old address contained in the absence response information;
• and
• transfer means for transmitting the mail after replacement of the address with the new address, when the address of the mail matches the old address contained in the absence response information.