Patent ID: 8327445

Claim:
A method of reviewing email messages after delivery to an inbox of a user, said inbox being associated with a mailbox, comprising: maintaining a suspect list of sources, the sources being undesirable based on user complaints or feedback loops; monitoring the user's actions relative to the inbox; determining a read/view state of each email message; in response to a user command, identifying, based on said determined state, each email message that has not been accessed by the user and that is stored in the mailbox of the user, said identifying further occurring periodically during periods when the mailbox is not being accessed by the user, wherein said identifying also occurs periodically in response to the monitoring indicating that user is no longer accessing the inbox; determining the source of each of the identified email messages that has not been accessed; and indicating to the user each identified email message in the inbox when the determined source of the identified email message is contained in the suspect list of sources.