Application
Content:
02 Email Address
Community
10 Sentence Describing Idea (149:150
characters)
Revolutionize
ALL CURRENT AND FUTURE email systems by allowing ONLY mail that’s acceptable to the box owner to enter and to
leave the box and domain.
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Describe Idea in Depth (297:300 words)
Box owner
specifies a “Preference Set” of acceptability criteria that’s used in filtering
and processing the mailbox’s traffic. Utilizing client-system “Window Clerk”
software, the Set is defined and uploaded via FTP or other protocol to the mail
server.
A
server-resident OSI Level 6 “Mail Clerk” plug-in process interfaces with
domain’s Mail Transfer Agent(s) or functional analog(s).
When a completely assembled email is
available for delivery to and for transmission from the mailbox, Mail Clerk
uses the email’s envelope TO: or FROM field to determine the relevant mailbox. Set criteria are accessed and applied to direct
processing. If no Set is found, Mail
Clerk allows normal mail processing.
User’s Set
criteria may include KNOWN domain-foreign mailbox URLs with which two-way
traffic is always acceptable and/or WANTED character strings whose presence in
traffic text – envelope SUBJECT or other body text field or file – makes mail
acceptable for delivery. User may also specify supplemental or alternate
traffic processing depending on traffic content and movement direction.
A domain owner’s System Administrator “SysAdmin” can classify a mailbox as PUBLIC so that two-way traffic in always acceptable.
SysAdmin may specify KNOWNSA (content similar to KNOWN) and/or WANTEDSA (content similar to WANTED) filtering criteria which will be applied to both incoming and outgoing traffic; and, take precedence over user’s criteria.
SysAdmins may be assigned to control the mailbox by including their UserNames as Set criteria. Such can send to and receive from the mailbox without filtering.
Mail Clerk applies Set criteria to content of envelope’s TO:- FROM:- and SUBJECT:-fields, traffic’s body and text attachments’ content. Traffic whose content exactly satisfies any criteria will be processed as defined by Set. Otherwise, the traffic is discarded or filed or forwarded.
For audit
purposes, Mail Clerk maintains mailbox and domain transaction logs that are
Window-Clerk-downloadable for inspection.
12. Problem Addressed (14 8:150 words)
All global
community participants – email users, SysAdmins domain owners - are affected by
abusive, illegal, malicious and unauthorized emailers.
Address
harvesting, mailing lists, spyware, malware and phishing provide URLs for
emailing. Virus testing and domain-global criteria eliminate some unwanted
traffic. However, the vast majority is
delivered to the mailbox addressed.
The user must
sort out unwanted traffic while risking that undetected spyware, malware and
viruses may be embedded and activated during sorting. Both domain mail server
and user’s client system are at risk.
There is
virtually no control of Internet-outgoing email whose content and/or addressee
may be contrary to the welfare and interests of a user or a domain owner.
This mechanism
restricts incoming and outgoing mailbox traffic to foreign and local emailers
meeting criteria established by mailbox users, SysAdmins and domain owners.
Properly
implemented, EPA’S OPERATIONS ARE TRANSPARENT TO ALL MAIL SERVERS, MTA’S AND
MAIL CLIENT SYSTEMS.
13. Who Benefits Most and How (149:150 words)
The entire global community of email
users, SysAdmins and domain owners will benefit now and in the future because:
User control of mailbox content means
unwanted mail is totally eliminated from non-PUBLIC mailboxes.
Unwanted, unauthorized mail never enters
and never leaves the domain
Initial email replies from new contacts
controlled.
Users permit only e-commerce
mailings from known suppliers.
Unacceptable email can be
‘safe-filed’ for later examination.
Only incoming acceptable mail need be
tested for embedded malware and viruses. Performing such testing at the mail
server provides uniform protection for client systems.
Customized automated processing
extensions based on TO: and FROM: field content traffic reduce manual
processing.
Highly improved traffic control and
Internet access control for SysAdmins
Owners have significantly improved
outgoing and incoming correspondence control
Uniform, scaleable mechanism useable
by organizations, ISPs and individual domain owners.
Uniform software, documentation,
education and support is used across mail systems and platforms.
14. Initial Steps Required (138:150 words)
EPA
is described at ‘http://www,EPAmail.com’.
Process
instances that are Internet -operational:
EPAmail.com – a filter-and-forward
proof of concept demonstration.
Pragmas Inc. email operations
support
Acquire
exclusive EPA license and process components from Pragmas, Inc.:
C source code and executables
UNIX shell jobs.
Software Engineering Documentation
User Manual
Sales Materials
Educational Materials
Installation Materials
Train
technical support cadre and “productize” all acquired components.
Investigate
firmware implementation of EPA operational nucleus.
Train
sales and customer support cadres.
Target
UNIX/Sendmail system users initially. Sell, install and support.
Adapt
EPA nucleus and installation materials for ‘gmail’. Install and support.
For
each of the following domestic and international market segments, adapt EPA,
sell, install and support:
ISP’s
Governmental organizations –
National, state and local
Educational Institutions
School Systems
Non-UNIX enterprises.
Legacy systems
Sub-license
and train:
Software Manufacturers
Support Service Providers
Business Partners
Consultants
Software Developers
15. Optimal Outcome if Selected and Implemented (150:150 words)
An
easily-understood, effective, accurate, universally- standardized email
filtering and control system is in place on 85% of email servers and client
systems,
Users employ the same client software
and operational procedures at work, at home and at school,
“Spamming” is no longer an effective revenue generator because
email is blocked at the server unless the traffic is from a source specified by
the user or the SUBJECT of the email meets the user’s criteria. As such emailing becomes unprofitable and
the activity is sharply reduced, the network bandwidth becomes available for
more productive application.
Automated email extensions plug-ins
based on mail content are developed and appended to mail processing at the server – further reducing manual
processing and increasing productivity.
Profit opportunities are a direct
function of the rapidly expanding Internet user population and include:
Long-term,
continuing licensing revenue streams.
Consulting
fees
System
maintenance and support contracts.
Piggy-backed
software product sales.
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18. Organizational Recommendation
(35:50 words)
Product manufacturer with global sales force, customer support,
software development, software technical support and email systems expertise -
organizations like Google, IBM, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Fortune 500 consultants,
US Government consultants, US Government system contractors.
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