Patent ID: 7401122

Claim:
A method for providing add-on services responsive to an email message transferred via a distributed computer network, comprising: receiving via said distributed computer network said email message at a destination email system, wherein said destination email system comprises an email server through which said email message is received; ascertaining from said email message whether a recipient of said email message subscribes to at least one of said add-on services; forwarding at least a first portion of said email message to an add-on service system via said distributed computer network, performing, using said add-on service system, at least one of said add-on services responsive to said first portion of said email message, wherein at least one of said add-on services includes a media conversion service that converts at least a portion of text of said email into a voice message, and forwarding the voice message to a voice mail system, when a media conversion service that converts at least a portion of text of said email message into a voice message occurs.