Patent ID: 8452262

Claim:
A terminal device for transmitting and receiving mails, comprising: a mail receiving unit; a judging unit to judge whether a command declaration is included in a mail transmitted by a requesting device to the terminal device; a command interpreting unit to extract and interpret a specific command following the command declaration if the judgment of the judging unit is affirmative; a creating unit to, if the specific command is interpreted as an instruction to create a list of information pieces pertaining to one or more targets, respectively, create the list of the information pieces from the targets stored in memory of the terminal device, the one or more targets each being specified by the specific command and being a mail intended to be received not by the requesting device but the terminal device; a mail transmitting unit to create and transmit a mail having the created list as a mail main body to the requesting device; and a processing unit to process the mail received by the terminal device as a regular mail if the judgment of the judging unit is negative.