Patent ID: 8620390

Claim:
A mail handling apparatus comprising: a connection unit for connecting a short range wireless communication channel to a cellular phone that stores mail information of an e-mail exchanged with a communication network; a mail information reception unit for receiving the mail information from the cellular phone on a condition that the short range wireless communication channel is connected between the connection unit and the cellular phone; a mail information storage unit for storing the mail information received from the cellular phone that is connected to the connection unit through the short range wireless communication channel; an operation reception unit for receiving a user operation regarding the mail information in the mail information storage unit; and a control unit for processing the stored mail information in the mail information storage unit according to the user operation received by the operation reception unit, wherein the control unit controls, at a time of connection of the connection unit to the cellular phone through the short range wireless communication channel, the mail reception unit to receive the mail information, which includes the mail information of the mail that was exchanged by the cellular phone with the communication network while the cellular phone was not connected to the connection unit through the short range wireless communication channel, and controls the mail information storage unit to store the mail information received by the mail information reception unit, and the control unit deletes the mail information received by the mail information reception unit and stored in the mail storage unit at a time of disconnection of the short range wireless communication channel between the connection unit and the cellular phone.