Patent ID: 7165089

Claim:
A mail server, comprising: an address extraction portion to extract a TO address, a CC address and a BCC address designated as destinations from a received electronic mail; a body information extraction portion to extract body information from said received electronic mail; a storage portion to store said extracted body information, the storage portion including a web data storage portion; a web data creation portion to create web data from the body information and to store the web data on the web data storage portion, the web data being viewable on an electronic bulletin board on a network; a mail creation portion to create a first electronic mail having said extracted TO address as a destination and including said body information, and a second electronic mail having one of said extracted CC address and BCC address as a destination for notifying that said extracted body information is stored in said storage portion, the second electronic mail not having said body information; and a controller to provide control such that said created first electronic mail is sent, said extracted body information is stored into said storage portion, and said second electronic mail is sent, when at least one of said CC address and BCC address is designated as a destination for said received electronic mail.