Peer-to-Peer Support for Distributed Mail Transfer Mechanism

In current Internet mail transfer mechanism, mail servers usually do a lot of extra mail processing like mail filtering. The workload of mail servers is heavy in terms of storage and processing time. Junk mails as well as important messages are all stored on mail server, retrieved and then deleted by end users. It’s a waste of processing time, storage space, and precious network resources. In this paper, peer-to-peer technology was included in ordinary mail transfer mechanism to reduce unnecessary overhead. Through the user location service, mail server can dynamically query the online status and current location of users. By redirecting mails to online users’ hosts, workload of mail servers will be greatly reduced, and personalization of mail processing configuration can be better supported.