Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Fred Batty

Daryl Huff

Timothy C Misner

Anil K Srivastava

Jacques E Belissent

According to the present invention, methods, apparatus, and computer readable medium are disclosed for automatically defining a mail domain in a directory server associated with a messaging server are disclosed. When an message having new domain name is received by the messaging server, a directory server creates a corresponding entry in a directory for every component included in the new domain name that does not already exist in the directory. A corresponding domain name service record is automatically updated in a domain name server associated with the directory server based upon the entry which is used to identify the new domain.

Growing community of inventors

Redwood City, CA, United States of America

Fred Batty