Research of the Email Account Maintaining Technology for Mail Gateway

With the rapid development of internet technology, e-mail is becoming a popular, convenient, economical way of communication. At the same time, the spam is flooding the internet. To solve this problem, the e-mail filtering technology based on e-mail gateway is widely used but mail gateway is apart from mail server and cannot get the mail account which is in the mail server, so the e-mail filtering products based on e-mail gateway always has no efficient way to manage mail account. This paper provides a new method to maintain mail account information for mail gateway. This method not only manages mail account from a number of different mail servers, but also filters the e-mail whose destination address is not existent. So the technology proposed in this paper can reduce the burden on the e-mail network.