Patent ID: 8321514

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing, via a computing device, a trust relationship between a first email user and at least a second email user, wherein establishing the trust relationship between the first email user and the second email user includes: exchanging, between the first email user and the second email user, an offer through one or more visual windows defining the trust relationship, wherein the one or more visual windows include one or more selectable rules defining which one or more email messages to propagate from the second email user to the first email user; and receiving an acceptance of the offer and a selection of the one or more selectable rules through the one or more visual windows, wherein the acceptance of the offer establishes the trust relationship; and automatically propagating, via the computing device, at least one email message received by the second email user to the first email user based upon, at least in part, the trust relationship, wherein the first email user and the second email user are different users.