A system that enables users to conveniently and intuitively send email messages that automatically publish information in appropriate shared content sources. The system allows users to send email messages to shared sources based on keywords within text entered as destination email addresses. The shared sources register interest in certain topics by registering keywords with the email server system. An email server program then sends the email messages it receives for publication to the appropria...

Email senders may transmit emails over the internet to a mail server that handles emails for a plurality of users (clients). The mail server may use a spam filter to remove the spam and then transmit the filtered emails to the addressed clients. The spam filter may use a white list, black list, probability filter and keyword filter. The probability filter may use a user mail corpus and a user spam corpus for creating a user probability table that lists tokens and the probability that an email is...

A system, method, and computer program product for managing e-mail and real-time messaging activity between a first client and a second client. In accordance with one embodiment, the method includes the first or second client detecting an n.sup.th e-mail thread response to an original e-mail message delivered between the first client and second client, wherein n is greater than or equal to one. In response to detecting occurrence of an n.sup.th e-mail thread response, a real-time electronic mess...

A protocol for protected email transmission using micropayments and a segregated inbox in which protected emails are displayed. The protocol also involves authentication of the sender to defeat phishers and an opt out protocol which can be used to block protected emails from sources from which the user no longer wishes to receive emails even if the source has made a micropayment. Branded email is also taught wherein a sender of protected emails can pay extra to have a miniature version of its br...

A method of sending an email message having one or more attached files to a plurality of recipients allows customized treatment of each file as it is being sent to each recipient. Treatments may include different types of encryption, plain text transmission, security classification or user-defined treatments. The invention may be implemented in a client-server configuration with separate client and server programs or in a single integrated email program configuration for use on a single computer...

A method that enables multiple spam detection solutions to be deployed in a manageable and rational manner to determine if a message is spam is presented. A framework invokes anti-spam filters to analyze the message and return confidence levels of whether a message is spam. The framework evaluates the highest confidence level against a set of defined thresholds. If the highest confidence level is greater than the highest threshold set by the administrator, the action specified for the highest th...

A computer implemented method for managing IM presence based on task context, comprising storing group affiliations for a requesting IM user and a target IM user. A request from the requesting IM user is received for the target IM user's status. The requesting IM user's group affiliation is determined. The target IM user's status relationship associated with the requesting IM user's group affiliation is determined. The status relationship for the target IM user is returned to the requesting IM u...

An application providing a common interface allowing access and login to a electronic mail system and instant messaging system. The application allows responding to an email using an instant message, replying to an instant message using an email, sending and receiving both email and instant messages from one application, sending email attachments instantly, and displaying presence information for the user, user email contacts and user messenger contacts. Alerts are provided for both emails and i...

A method for distributing a public information release authorization (PIRA) form over an intranet includes creating and submitting a PIRA form over the intranet, with the PIRA form being submitted by an author to at least one approver via e-mail with a hyperlink to the PIRA form. Comments for the PIRA form are transmitted by the approver via e-mail. The intranet includes a plurality of users enrolled therein with each user having associated personnel information stored within the intranet. The m...

In a preferred embodiment, a method and system are disclosed for certifying contents of a correspondence sent from a sender to a recipient. Steps and modules are provided for receiving by an information processor over a communication network an electronic file from a sending workstation associated with the correspondence. Further recipient information is received over the communication network that represents the recipient of the correspondence, and an electronic copy of the electronic file is p...