Patent ID: 7546535

Claim:
A method for sorting e-mail messages, the method comprising: receiving an e-mail message for a user at a first mailbox, the e-mail message including an attribute; calculating a probability that a copy of the e-mail message belongs in a second mailbox, the calculating based on a statistical model and the attribute of the e-mail message; if the probability is equal to or less than ninety percent, asking the user if the e-mail message should be stored in any other mailboxes and displaying a list of the other mailboxes associated with the user; receiving instructions from the user to move a message to a new folder; and updating the statistical model in response to the moving instructions; wherein the updating includes: incrementing a count associated with the message on a positive probability list of the new folder in the statistical model, and incrementing a count associated with the message on a negative probability list of folders in the statistical model that did not receive the message.