Patent ID: 8380793

Claim:
A method to effectively include a transaction electronic mail (e-mail) message to a non-junk mail list of an existing email account of a user, said method comprising: interacting with the user to start to complete a business transaction at a transaction web site of a party, said business transaction including a plurality of transaction steps; defining a confirmation step being a step in the plurality of transaction steps to complete the business transaction; providing a request associated with the defined confirmation step to the user to add a transaction e-mail address to the non-junk mail list of the existing email account of the user, said transaction e-mail address being associated with the transaction e-mail message sent by the transaction web site and including transaction information relating to the confirmation step, wherein said adding comprises: receiving the existing e-mail account of the user from the user, said e-mail account having an e-mail address associated therewith; identifying properties of the received existing e-mail account, said identified properties including log-in information of the received existing e-mail account; generating a link directing the user to log-in to the existing e-mail account of the user, said generated link including at least a domain of the existing e-mail address, an end point that processes the provided request, the existing e-mail account of the user, and a return uniform resource locator; interacting with the user to log-in to the received existing e-mail account using the generated link; interacting with the user to include the transaction e-mail address to the non-junk mail list of the received existing e-mail account of the user; and in response to interacting with the user to include the transaction e-mail address to the non-junk mail list, directing the user to a web page associated with return uniform resource locator.