Configuration of electronic mail account information, updating method and device thereof

Abstract

The method: presetting an email account information configuration rule table; getting the user's configuration information; according the configuration information, looping up a matched configuration rule if the configuration rule tale; according to the configuration rule, automatically configuring the email account; saved the configured email account into the mail server. The invention also reveals an e-mail account information updating method comprising: getting the user's authentication information; looking up the configured email account information matching said authentication information; download said account information to the email client side to update the e-mail account information.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of emails, in particular to a method and device for configuring and updating email account information. Background technique [0002] With the development of network technology, e-mail has gradually become an important way for people to communicate and contact each other due to its convenience, speed and security. Many large portal websites provide e-mail services, such as the suffix provided by Sina @sina .com email service, NetEase provides email service with the suffix @163.com, Sohu provides email service with the suffix @sohu.com, etc. Many large companies use Outlook, Foxmail and other emails to manage their own emails, and uniformly use the email services provided by the company to communicate and contact internally and externally more conveniently. [0003] Using Outlook, Foxmail and other application software requires detailed configuration of mail account information before use. Please refer to F...

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[0010] From the above steps, we can see that the configuration of email account information requires familiarity with various configuration information including email server information, which is difficult for people in non-related fields. Therefore, to a certain extent, it is not Familiarity with the configuration information of email accounts will cause great inconvenience to users in using email, which in turn will affect users' use of email

[0011] After the mail account information is configured on a certain computer, when the email of this account needs to be used on other computers, the configuration of the email account information must be re-configured on this computer, and the work is repeated. Convenient and simple requirements for use

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