System and method for treating electronic messages

Abstract

A system and method for discerning the authenticity of the sender and controlling the routing of electronic messages prior to said messages reaching a recipient's device within a variety of mediums such as email servers, local networks, intranets, wireless cellular telephone systems, wireless mobile telephones, separate computer device and wireless personal digital assistant systems; enabling the information header and address of the messages to undergo scrutiny; automatically responding to and routing said messages according to administrator and / or recipient definable parameters prior to any of the said messages reaching the recipient's device, resulting in the recipient, recipients, corporation or other entity being protected from potentially damaging and / or excessive amounts of unwanted messages.

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technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to any communication system where a user can receive text mail. The mail may contain text only, or a combination of text and pictures. The mail may also contain various forms of information or even other attachments of malicious code. In particular, the present invention relates to a system and method for determining the authenticity of a mail sender and controlling mail routing without having to examine mail content. In particular, the present invention prevents recipients from accepting large volumes of mail (also known as spam) and / or potentially damaging mail, and enables targeted recipients and / or administrators of recipients to define mail handling systems and methods (message handling system and method) parameters. Background technique [0002] Thousands of communication system users receive unwanted mail of various types every day. Most of these unwanted emails are sent to Internet email systems, but em...

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Problems solved by technology

This makes the email confirmation step unreliable

Fourth, the aforementioned products do not adapt companies or user groups to all aspects of the systems and methods

[0013] 2. The Convenience of Email Is Threatened by the Extremely Rapid Growth of Mass Unsolicited Commercial Email

[0014] 3. Receiving unsolicited commercial e-mail may result in recipients not refusing to receive them, incurring costs for storing them, or taking time to receive, read, and reject them, or both suffer loss

[0015] 4. Receiving a large number of unwanted emails also reduces the convenience of emails and creates a risk that useful commercial and non-commercial emails may be lost, missed or excluded in a large number of unwanted emails, thereby reducing the risk of reaching the recipient. Email Reliability and Availability

[0017] 6. The growth of unsolicited commercial e-mail imposes substantial monetary costs on Internet access service providers, operators, and educational and nonprofit institutions that transmit and receive these e-mails

[0023] 12. Federal law alone cannot address the problems associated with the rapid growth and abuse of unsolicited commerce-email

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