Patent ID: 7640307

Claim:
A process for secure and timed delivery of recallable and erasable email comprising: a sender's mail user agent creating and sending an email having a body to a sender's modified mail transport agent, said sender's modified mail transport agent preprocessing said email to create a modified email that has a link to a stored image of the body from the email substituted for the body of the email, sender's modified mail transport agent sending the modified email to a recipient's mail transport agent where the modified email is stored awaiting recipient's request, recipient's mail user agent requesting and receiving said modified email from recipient's mail transport agent, executing the link contained in the modified email to request the image of the body of the email from sender's hypertext transport protocol server, sender's hypertext transport protocol server obtaining the image and sending the image to the recipient, and the displaying the image of the body of the email for the recipient, the step of said sender's modified mail transport agent preprocessing said email to create a modified email that has had a link to a stored image of the body from the email substituted for the body of the email further comprises: sender's modified mail transport agent strips the body from the email and creates an image file of the body and stores the image file on a file system, sender's modified mail transport agent creates an entry for the email in a database, and sender's modified mail transport agent creates a link to the stored image and substitutes the link in the email for the body of the email thereby creating a modified email, wherein the entry created in the database by the sender's modified mail transport agent for the email further comprises: the body of the email, a time the email was saved, a time the email is first displayed, a total number of times the email is displayable. and a removal time, and the mail transport agent removes the email based on total number and removal time.