公开(公告)号：PL177486B1

公开(公告)日：1999-11-30

申请号：PL32590395

申请日：1995-08-14

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ANTHIAS TEFCROS ,  DOLIVO FRANCOIS B ,  HERMANN RETO ,  PAPADOPOULOS CHRISTOS ,  WILLIAMSON ROBIN

IPC: H04L12/54 ,  H04L12/58 ,  H04Q3/02

Abstract: 1. The method is designed for transmitting a message from the first user to target users, while each user is ascribed to a mail server connected to the network in the manner, which ensures that the mail server is reached through the queue administrator. Unique characteristics: Addressing information is prepared for delivering a message from the mail server (20.1), ascribed to the first user (a1) in the network, to the mail servers (20.2, 20.5), ascribed to target users (b1, e1). The addressing information and the message are encapsulated in an MQ system message. A list of queues is created. It contains addresses of queue administrators (213, 21.7), through which the mail servers (20.2, 20.5) are reached. In the queue list, the set of administrators of queues of the next hops is determined and the correlated queue sub-lists are created. The route of the MQ system message to each queue administrator of the following hops is selected. The route is accompanied by a queue list, identical with the queue sublist correlated to a particular queue administrator of the following hops. As a result, the queue managers of the following hops become the operating queue administrators, each of which receive the names of local queues from the queue list and delivers the message to the queues if the queue administrator turns out to be the queue administrator from the queue list. The selection from the queue list and the selection of the route is repeated, until the message is introduced into all queues of the queue list. The MQ system messages and the addressing information from the queue of the queue list are retrieved. The addressing information is used to determine the set of target users, ascribed to mail servers, each of which delivers the message to the target user if the ascribed target user is a local user of a mail server. The previously described operations are repeated for the sub-set of target users, who are not local users, until the message is delivered to all target users.