Patent ID: 8352559

Claim:
A method of managing a temporary e-mail address, where all e-mail sent to the temporary e-mail address is initially forwarded to an actual e-mail address, the method comprising: deactivating the temporary e-mail address automatically in response to an event such that no e-mail sent to the temporary e-mail address is forwarded to the actual e-mail address; sending a notification e-mail to the actual e-mail address, the notification e-mail indicating that the temporary e-mail address has been deactivated and including one or more uniform resource locators (URLs) configured to manage the deactivation of the temporary e-mail address; and storing, in a queue, one or more e-mails sent to the temporary e-mail address subsequent to the deactivation of the temporary e-mail address, wherein the one or more e-mails sent to the temporary e-mail address subsequent to the deactivation of the temporary e-mail address are accessible to a user of the temporary e-mail address.