| 摘要 |
<p>A mail-receive noticing system and method and provided for automatically notifying a destination terminal of a fact that an electronic mail reaches a host computer. A mail-sending terminal (161) includes a mail-receiving notice instructing device for accepting a mail-receiving notice instruction of a sender on the sending terminal given depending upon urgency or importance level of the mail and an information sending device for sending mail-receiving notice instructing information generated based on the accepted mail-receiving notice instruction, together with a sending signal of an electronic mail to a host computer (180). The host computer (180) includes a device for receiving the mail-receiving notice instructing information from a sending terminal (161) and processing devices (100, 102, 106) for generating a mail-receiving notice indication based on the received mail-receiving notice instructing information and sending the same to a receiving terminal (160). The destination terminal (160) includes a mail-receive noticing device (150) actuated by the received mail-receiving notice indication for noticing that an electronic mail reaches the host computer (180) to a user in an informing fashion different along urgency or importance level of the mail instructed by the sender. <IMAGE></p> |
