Automatic email configuration system using multimodal authentication interfaces for smartphones

초록

Email services are among the services most frequently utilized by smartphone users. However, setting up a smartphone email service is very frustrating for ordinary users as the process requires knowledge of complicated email server protocols and types of security. To eliminate the inconvenience, a method in which web mail setting information is preconfigured within an app has been applied to representative smartphone email accounts. However, it is not practical nor realistic to store all web mail setting information in the app; furthermore, private server setting information for schools, working areas and so on, has to be separately established by users. In this paper, we propose a system that removes these inconveniences faced when setting up smartphone email services. The proposed system automatically downloads setting information preconfigured on the email server for users. © (2013) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.