Method and device for email synchronization

Abstract

The present invention discloses an e-mail synchronizing method and a device for realizing the reduction of the number of interactions between a terminal device and a server, the saving of the addition network flow occupied by an e-mail protocol, and the reduction of unnecessary synchronization operations. The method comprises a step of establishing the operation list of an email, wherein, the operation list is used for recording the local operation of the email in the terminal device, a step of combining the local operations of the email recorded in the preset time segment in the operation list, and a step of sending a synchronization command comprising the combined operations to the server, wherein, the server is used for synchronizing the combined local operations of the email to the server according to the synchronization command. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the number of interactions between the terminal device and the server can be reduced, the addition network flow occupied by the e-mail protocol can be saved, and the unnecessary synchronization operations can be reduced. Partial success states and partial failure states are allowed to exist in one time of batch synchronization at the same time, thus partial failed synchronization operations can be cancelled, and the synchronization efficiency is improved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of the Internet, in particular to a mail synchronization method and device. Background technique [0002] Local operations on emails on mobile terminals include creating, deleting, moving, marking read or unread, adding stars, changing reply status, etc., and these local operations need to be synchronized to the email server to ensure that emails Local operations are stored on the server so that other mail clients can be updated. [0003] The current synchronization method usually synchronizes each local operation with the server separately, and there will be as many synchronizations as there are local operations. For the additional network traffic caused by the mail protocol during each synchronization, the more times of synchronization, the more additional network traffic, which leads to the process of synchronizing these local operations to the server to consume a lot of network traffic, and For mobile ...

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Similarly, since the user's operation is not recorded, the "undo" operation can only return to the state before synchronization, and there is no "partial failure" state, so the lack of flexibility also causes a waste of network traffic

Secondly, because this method records the state changes within the scope of the account, it cannot reflect the impact of the email change of one account on another account, so the mobile operation across email accounts cannot be realized.

Again, the data structure of this method cannot record the mail that needs to be uploaded to the server, so the upload of the mail cannot be realized

Again, it is easy to cause the loss of local operations. For example, when an email exceeds the synchronization window and needs to be deleted locally (the email on the server does not need to be deleted), the local operation corresponding to the email is also deleted, resulting in local operations. Lost; for another example, if new operations occur during uploading of local operations, these new operations will also be deleted after the upload is successful, resulting in the loss of local operations

Finally, the method wastes storage space

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