System for adding to electronic mail messages information obtained from sources external to the electronic mail transport process
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Jan 25, 2000
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Dec 11, 1996
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Dec 11, 1996
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An apparatus and method is provided for obtaining message context information regardless of whether or not the sender includes context information, such as full name, address, telephone number, etc. The context can be stored separately from a message and retrieved when the message is read by a recipient when requested. The context might be stored in an indexed database or repository using either a key field provided by the sender or using the fields present in the message for other purposes. The latter approach is useful for finding context information in legacy messages and messages where the sender has taken no action to supply context information. If a key field is not provided by the sender, the 'From:' and 'Organization:' header fields can be used. In order to populate the database or repository, the domain name portion of the 'From:' header field can be used as an index into a 'whois' search and the 'Organization' name can be passed to a telephone book search engine.
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